Cristina
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How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Why You Freeze When You Want to Approach Beautiful Women—& How to Fix it NOW (Live Coaching with John!)
I'm Cristina, and this is my friend Vicky.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Why You Freeze When You Want to Approach Beautiful Women—& How to Fix it NOW (Live Coaching with John!)
Uh, they're blue.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Why You Freeze When You Want to Approach Beautiful Women—& How to Fix it NOW (Live Coaching with John!)
To come where?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Why You Freeze When You Want to Approach Beautiful Women—& How to Fix it NOW (Live Coaching with John!)
What? Where is Oviedo?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Why You Freeze When You Want to Approach Beautiful Women—& How to Fix it NOW (Live Coaching with John!)
By plane? What's in Oviedo?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Why You Freeze When You Want to Approach Beautiful Women—& How to Fix it NOW (Live Coaching with John!)
Oh, right. You're asking us to fly to Oviedo and back?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Why You Freeze When You Want to Approach Beautiful Women—& How to Fix it NOW (Live Coaching with John!)
Yeah, who exactly is going to make love?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Why You Freeze When You Want to Approach Beautiful Women—& How to Fix it NOW (Live Coaching with John!)
40.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
When it comes to love, you just have to take a chance.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, I mean... Um, I think like grand, speaking of grand gestures, I think like, I honestly, it wasn't even in the dating world. It was, um, if I had, you know, I was thinking about my, in eighth grade, I was 14 years old and, you know, we're in the classroom. It's the second, it's the day before we're about to graduate and, you know, you're off to, to high school. And, and
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
this huge bouquet of roses is brought in by our principal and everyone's oohing and aahing and I'm like,
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
wish those were for me you know and so he goes to our teacher and she points to the back of the room and i turn around and he heads straight for me you know and oh boy and they were for me from not even from the person that i had a crush on it was like this boy the seventh grader who had silently had a crush on me for who god knows how long and it was the most it was
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
To this day, I don't think that I actually have ever had like this grand of a gesture from really anybody that really took me by surprise. And I guess like in thinking about it, I was just thinking like, I wish he would have told me or maybe not. I mean, I just, you know, he held on to that for so long and I was gone. You know, I thanked him and I was so flattered.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And to this day, it's like probably the biggest thing the, the grandest of gestures next to my husband asked getting on his, um, knee, uh, without, we were swimming and he just was overcome with emotion. And he got on his knee and asked me to, he proposed to me and his swimming trunks with no ring, no anything, no shirt.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So those are my two, but, uh, those, those are probably like, even though it was middle school. I mean, I was 14 almost in high school, but I feel like that was such a rom-com moment.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Right? But it's a lesson. Hopefully in the future, he just really let the girl know sooner. So he might've had a chance. I don't know.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
What do they call it in Twilight series? Like you're not a zinger, but you're, I can't remember what it is.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
The Twilight series, they call it, you're almost zapped.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
They call it imprinted.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Well, I think that when I transitioned from theater to writing for film, I just thought that through film, we were able to reach more people. That transition came at a moment when I was really looking for love. I was about
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
33 years old and actually I'm wearing the shirt that I wore when I had my birthday and I turned 33 and I called it my Jesus year where my you know I was gonna find the love of my life it was like my calling you know I was just ready for love I wanted to find my husband and my partner and I think that that was when I started to write. And so then my husband and I got married.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And that's, I know you're going to cut this out, but can you hear the trash truck?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
We can stop until it leaves.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So anyway, so we were approached by an investor once we were married to produce, and he was also a fanatic of rom-coms, and I loved them too, and so that was our first opportunity to make an indie film. Well, second time we made our movies, but the first time we made our indie film, And I loved writing it. In other words, I wrote and that one is on Tubi. You can go find it and watch it.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
It was very easy for me to write that because I loved love, and I just really dug into my own experiences. And honestly, I feel like I do channel the movies of the 90s when I write romantic comedies or comedies. I have a fascination with them, so... That's where it really started. The opportunities that were coming to us were in this genre, to be honest.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, I agree. There's just something, like you're saying, very natural. And the interactions with the characters are really funny, though. And what I love is that it's not just about the plot. You really... Cameron Crowe presents... each character with just such, um, such a, their, their nuances about them, even, even, um, what's it, Jeremy Piven was in it and, and he was hilarious.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Thank you for having me. I'm really excited to talk about Say a Little Anything.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Like, uh, he, Cameron Crowe does not, um, there's not a wasted character, you know what I mean? Like there's a purpose for it, but they're funny or they lend such a beautiful palette to say anything. And, you know, Jeremy Piven plays this drunk character at the party and he just is hilarious, you know? And he's there for like 30 seconds maybe and he's gone, but he's hilarious, you know?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love it. I love his writing, Cameron Crowe's.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
It's a mashup of both. No, but Say a Little Prayer and Say Anything.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, I mean, awkward for sure. Awkward for sure. And what I found adorable was, you know, he said, I'm Lloyd Dobler. I don't know if you know me. She said, yeah, you... we ate together or we had lunch together. And he's like, Oh, you remember? She said, no, you, uh, I took the message. You told my father or something like that, you know, and she wasn't weirded out by it. Right.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
You know, and, uh, I, I really, I really love that. You know, number one, I really miss the phones with the cords.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yes. That was really fun to watch.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And I'm going to geek out now, but just the line from the father, he's like, when he answers the phone, he's like, this is Lloyd Daubert. Are you the guy with the truck? No. Are you the guy with the Mustang? Right. The father is testing him with these three questions. It was just really brilliant. Yeah. As a parent, I'm taking notes like, oh, this is really great to... To get info very quickly.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, you know, I feel like... For them, it was timing, right? I feel like, so it was graduation, and Diane Court kept saying she had been away for college courses and not really been a part of high school, and she didn't go to the parties, and she didn't do this, and she was really fully aware. She shared that with her father. And so this random guy calls her,
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
and she was like, I'm busy Tuesday, I'm busy Saturday, I'm busy for the rest of my life almost, right? But then he says, well, what about tonight? There's a high school party happening. And it was timing, because she had just said, I kind of missed it. I missed high school. I missed that connection. They don't know me and I don't know them. And so I think in love that that's true.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Like it's timing, you know?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Someone, both parties have to be ready.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Does that rule still apply nowadays? I haven't been in the dating scene for obviously 17, 18 years.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So I grew up in the 80s and I absolutely loved those movies from the 80s, but Say Anything was I think the first movie that I remember where you kind of, as a preteen and then teenager, learn about love in a very, what I now know is real. The other movies that I was watching at that time were like, other John Cusack movies,
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
But is it, wait, is there like a, are people still doing the waiting period?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
snag that person up or they'll be distracted by other shinier objects yeah you know my husband and I told you we met on the radio on a Friday November 3rd of 2006 and um I had been alone for two and a half years like single and um I didn't. We connected after we had gone out for a drink right after the radio show. That was on a Friday.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And he was going to wait until like the next week to ask me out. But I really wanted to see him. So I reached out and I called him and I said, do you want to go see Babel on Sunday? And we went out on Sunday. But I just I was so over the games of that meeting.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
I did.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
I agree. I agree. And I liked his shift into just...
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
like finding the moment finding that uh finding that connection and you never know right like he he actually said the right thing and he didn't even know it you know he just kept saying how about saturday how about sunday or whatever it was and then when he switched there's a part he added a little more story behind it right oh there's a party i'm not gonna let you
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
uh run off to to england or europe before getting one getting you know having a taste of one of these parties and yeah there's a story behind it that really intrigued her you know and so she she said yes so that was curious i mean that was really um that was really cool a very good shift and i appreciated that okay um so it's lloyd and um uh let's go out you want to go out
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
and uh you know it was like Fast Times at Ridgemont High that wasn't John Cusack but um also One Crazy Summer and they were these were all about love and obviously Fast Times at Ridgemont High is crazy love but but this one was just so sweet it spoke to my heart and it would there were so many iconic things about it and uh it kind of set the tone for what I kind of wanted in a guy
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Thank you. Thank you.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Thank you. Thank you.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Thank you.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
You know, that Lloyd Dobler real love.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
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How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
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How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
aspiring to have this beautiful art gallery. So she's got this serious business side to her. And then Christina, played by Vivian Lamoli, is a single mother in our movie, Say a Little Prayer. And so I think Ruby, the kind of flighty, free spirit, has 10 jobs because she won't be tied down, to me seems like the hardest one. And Jackie Cruz nailed it.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
She's one of the favorites of our audiences.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, Lloyd Dobler was, as you said, I think quirky is the most appropriate, but he was so brave. I love, you know, from the first scene, they're in someone's bedroom and he's with his two girlfriends.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Absolutely. Absolutely. And, you know, the audition process is very important. But it all, I don't know, there's not been one movie that I've produced or written, more produced on the producing side, where we felt like, oh, we didn't. That was just bad casting. We didn't cast that very well. We've been presented with such beautiful talent.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So in this particular one, Say a Little Prayer, we keep getting that comment over and over that the relationship with the girls is so wonderful. Nancy De Los Santos did a wonderful job in her writing.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Oh, wow. That's awesome.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
No, no, no. But the boombox scene, so again, I'm Mexican-American, and in our culture we have the serenata, the serenade, and it was with trios outside of the window. And that really was, even watching it with my husband on Friday, we were re-watching it, And he's like, oh, this is the modern serenade for Serenata. And so I really, truly appreciated it.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
um played by uh lily tyler and amy brooks and he's playing the guitar and they're talking about he's like i'm gonna ask her out on a second date and she and his friend cory who's played by lily tyler's like that's interesting you haven't even gone the first day
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
I think that would have aged well, the kind of imposing nature of these male characters. Yeah, that didn't age too well. That is very much a part of the 90s back then, I think.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Oh, my goodness.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
I researched that as well, and I saw Robert Downey Jr. But yeah, Christian Slater, I agree. No, he was too bad boy, too cool for this. That would have actually been a very... Oh yeah, they belong together. There's no pursuit. I think that would have been a slam dunk. But I could see Robert Downey Jr. I think Matthew Broderick would have been a good...
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Right?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Jennifer Connelly.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And, yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Um... Well, there was another one that was also Elizabeth Shue was being considered for that. I think Elizabeth Shue would have been just as good as in that role over Jennifer Connelly, I think. I used to love Elizabeth Shue, and she was in the Babysitter's Club and all that. So I think she would have been great, too.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Oh, yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, she did a great job. She's just so pretty. And when she came out in that dress, the white dress, when Lloyd went to pick her up at the house, his reaction, I reacted the same way. I was like, whoa.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
What about the first date? And we find out that he kind of followed her to the mall at the food court and sat across and had lunch with her. That was his first date without her knowing about it. So he was so brave though. And I mean, it's borders on a little stalker nowadays, but he was just so sweet and you were rooting for him. And You know, he was harmless, you know.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, although both my husband and I, when we were watching it, I was watching it again. He had not seen Say Anything, which surprised me. The white dress was gorgeous, but when she arrived at the school, I mean at the school, I'm sorry, at the party, I was just like, oh my God, she's so overdressed with the flower in her hair. But there's no way he cared. There's just no way he cared.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Oh, it was amazing.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah. You know what I loved about that party was... how responsible the kids were, the party goers. They had a, was a key master. Right. Where one person would not allow anybody to drive. I thought that was so responsible and so, it made me feel better about, like, why didn't people do this, you know? So, and that was part of the whole,
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
The charm of it, people saw Lloyd Dobler as a responsible person, someone they could count on to help them not make the wrong decisions.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, well, he keeps checking in with her.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
To add to that, when Lloyd was checking in on her, and this may have been a... Well, it's the director and the writer the same, but in one moment...
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
um lloyd was checking in on her and she's by herself and she turned to the camera and kind of cringed and rolled her eyes and i thought she lost he lost her like we both my husband and i were like oh no he's sort of like stalking stalker getting stalker vibes again but then the next scene was with corey the Liv Tyler character, Lily, excuse me, Lily Tyler character.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And Lily Tyler is talking about Lloyd to her. You're so lucky. And that's when Diane says, he's so sweet. He checks up on me. Look. And they turn around and sure enough, he's there. So it also helps when like somebody else talks you up.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So I just appreciated his bravery so much.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Oh, that hug.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
She, like, threw herself into him.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah. I agree. I loved that hug. It was, I don't think I've ever seen that since then. It's just a hug where she was hooked. Because their first kiss was awkward. It was like after her driving, he was helping her learn how to drive and they kind of kissed.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
It was just like pecks, like Woody Woodpecker. But the next scene, there was one of my favorite where they were kissing in the rain. and um oh that was just so beautiful like just visually beautiful and romantic and not a care in the world um so yeah for the first the hug was great the first kiss not so good but that you know obviously it got better what about when you're making a movie
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So I directed a movie called Free Lunch, and this was with all seventh graders. And that one is on Amazon Prime as well. And I had, there was a kiss that had to happen. And it was in the middle of a dance. And they're seventh graders. And so, but these two kids, Connor William Barrett and Jovi Lee, such professionals, but... It was COVID around that. It was like 2021, post-COVID.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So we still had to follow all these protocols. And so we were outside, and we made this outside area look like we were inside. But behind the cameras were, no lie, probably about 65 people watching. Parents who were there. There were other kids who were there. And Connor leans in and he's like, can you make them all go away? And I said, Connor, that would take so long.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Just, just, they're not here. And it doesn't have to be, you don't have to hold it for long, just enough for us to capture it. And they were so nervous. And so you really, we, in that moment, we couldn't, we couldn't clear the stage fast enough because of time. And so we just had to make them as comfortable as we could in that moment. And they did great. And they did great.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And nobody oohed and aahed, which was really awful because that would have been the end of us. But I think that it's like really creating a comfortable, even for adults, a comfortable set.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
You know, and now what I actually love for more, you know, this isn't more, this isn't really in rom-coms, but for example, Divorce Bait is a comedy and it's a little bit more of a like raunch comedy, like in the spirit of Girls Trip. And there were moments where it was alluded to, you know, things that were intimate.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And so I love that we now have the intimacy coordinators, you know, that there's rules and And I, as a woman, appreciate it so much. And I when we didn't have like an official before that, we would have women in the in the room and I would be in the room. And if I was just producer. So, yeah, that's what happens behind the scenes. Just really making people feel comfortable.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
I step.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Are you kidding me?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So the one that jumped out to me was the scene at the party where Lloyd's outside and the counselor comes to the party.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah. And so the counselor gets out and she goes to this party. Like, that to me was unbelievable, right? And she sits there and they talk about... Like, what are you going to do with your life, Lloyd? Everybody told me, told us what their career choice was going to be. And it just, it seemed a little expository for me. That's like the only writing critique I had that really stood out.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Like, number one, why would anybody invite adults to this party?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Correct. Yeah, that was the only thing in it.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Right.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
But you're right. That's weird. What is it? The sip and go?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, gas and sip.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Absolutely. And that song, Joe Lies, Joe Lies and Cries, must be made into a single.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Oh, my gosh. But the fact that he's even in there, the fact that we get to meet him and see what a douchebag he is. Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, I would have to say I agree. I totally agree. The first time was really funny, and then it was a little much. But I still, again, I appreciated there was these characters in the 90s movies that, like, I don't know, what was the movie? Another John Cusack movie where there was this kid that was running around asking John Cusack's character. I think it's One Crazy Summer for $2.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And the kid would just be on a bike.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
$2.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Better Off Dead.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yes, Better Off Dead. And it's just these random little moments. And I think that this was one of them. It really made me think like, oh, this is those quirky moments with these quirky characters that just have a presence for like 15 seconds and then they're gone.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yes.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Oh, that's a good one.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Oh, goodness. You went there. Mine for the Cinemax After Dark was Moan Anything.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Terrible. Terrible. Oh, my goodness.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Well, this movie is written by Nancy De Los Santos. And Nancy De Los Santos was an associate producer back in the days with Selena, was shot in San Antonio. And so she began to write this movie probably about 20 years ago, around the same time. She it began with her grandmother Basically, you know Nancy was accomplished.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
The moment where after she breaks up with him and she hands him the pen, it's raining once again. So it was really juxtaposing the kiss in the rain for me. He's on the phone with his sister in the phone booth and And he says, she gave me a pen. I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen. Even now, I'm affected by that. It was tearjerker. I felt so bad for him. It's such a beautiful story.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Oh, six months. Wow. Okay, I'll keep it until, like, the end of their 20s.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, well, I mean... I don't know. I'm a believer in that in your 20s, you should go out and date as much as you can and, you know, get that out of your system, you know, kiss a frog or two. And then in your 30s, that's when you can start really... thinking about marriage and stuff like that.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So I just... I gave him just a little more than... I mean, a lot more than you did, but I mean, if they were... I think he would want to marry her, but I think she would eventually get bored. Okay. You know, I don't know.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
With a boombox?
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Oh man.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
The trio. I mean, not that I prefer it, but what would, I mean, any, any, uh, I used to be into R&B a lot.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And so I don't, it's so R&B love songs back then, like Keith Sweat, you know, um, Johnny Gale.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Any of those really romantic, um, songs that they sang. Um, would really tug at my heartstrings. Because it's just so nostalgic for me. So any of those songs on a boombox would be fun.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
She had been Doing doing so much work as a producer in television But her grandmother all she could think of was you're not married so she calls her to her home and Nancy goes over and the grandmother gives her this prayer and to St. Anthony, to San Antonio. And it's the patron saint of lost causes as you, or lost things, not lost causes, lost things.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, no, I love that. I didn't even think of that. I feel like, you know, in the beginning scene, they say, they're having that conversation, and then they're like, he's like, they discuss, like, what's a scam? Lloyd says, what's a scam? Corey says, going out as friends. DC says, no, it's not. A scam is lusting. And then Lloyd and Corey say, then what's a date?
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Prearranged with the possibility for love. And then Corey says, well, then what's love? And so I feel like there's a whole movie answers just that. And for me, it's like when it comes to love, you just have to take a chance. And to what you're saying, I think with Lloyd, it was...
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Even if it was 16 weeks, he was willing to be with her, and that was his sole purpose, and then he'd worry about past the 16 weeks when it came.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Well, thank you for having me. And I want to let everybody know that Say a Little Prayer is coming out on Amazon Prime and Apple TV on Wednesday. Valentine's Day. And so it could be a Galentine's or a Valentine's Day event for you. Yep. Please enjoy. It's directed by Patrick Perez Vidauri, written by Nancy De Los Santos and produced by yours truly.
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It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Or say a little prayer. Yeah. There's an actual prayer that they say to St. Anthony, and this is how they all find love. So when in doubt, light a candle.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, so currently I'm writing... I'm writing a horror. Ooh. Yeah, I'm going to deliver that. And then I wrote a romantic comedy. It's a teen comedy. And actually, I really have John Cusack in mind and Molly Ringwald. And so that is something that we're going to try to... get funding for this year and pack it. But I wrote a teen comedy that harkens back to the 90s, the movies of the 90s.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And she said, you need to say this prayer because your husband is lost. So Nancy ignored it, ignored it, but she thought it was a very funny thing story and so she wrote it as a short story back then I think it was it won awards she got into the Equinox program with HBO and she tried to produce it
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So that's where my focus will be this year.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
meaning she tried to get them to produce it like someone in Hollywood, but she really ran up against a wall on that. And I, you know, it was not like a true romantic comedy. You start off with the, it's more about the friendship with these three young women looking for love. And they're already in their 30s, so they've lived their lives and they're entrepreneurs.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
So Nancy, you know, it took about 20 years. And at the same time, I'm building my career. And she was watching me. Now with social media, she was watching what I was doing, myself and my husband, Patrick Perez Vidalde, who we together have been making independent movies. and mostly romantic comedies. And so she just asked me to breakfast one day and she's like, how are you making your movies?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And she pulls out this little pad and is about to write down like my, what, 10 steps to producing a movie, I don't know. And I just said, do you want me to produce your movie? And she reached over and took my hand and cried. And it's like, yes, I would never ask you. It's so much work. But I love the story. I wanted to work with Nancy.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And so she had an army of people behind her, you know, who wanted to see her succeed with this story. And we started there. And the first thing was to try to find like that one lead that would eventually sell our movie. And that's where Luis Fonsi came in. Yeah. One of our co-producers knew him and gave him the script and he resonated with it. And that's where it all began.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
You're absolutely right. Luis Fonsi, and these are his words, part of the reason he took the role was because he said, this is not a stretch. This feels like me. This speaks to me. I am this guy. I am Rafael Reza.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
and he was just he's just such a kind soul but he he did such service to this role he was such a natural um he was funny he had comedic timing but you're absolutely right as a as take if you're taking notes on how to how to do things right in the dating world yeah yeah this one's to watch this was one to watch
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Really? On vacation?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah. You know what? That's a really good point. Yeah. That's a very, very good point. Well, if you, if you do sing and you play guitar, there's always karaoke. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. That when I was, when I was dating, like, I remember this guy was pursuing, pursuing me. And his directing and the movie was just so beautiful.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
I remember seeing him in a different light, you know, like it ended and like we were dating the very next week, you know, like it just, it did, it captured, it caught my attention.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
When my husband and I met for the first time in an after-school program, but we were both, I was coming out of a five-year relationship and he was in a five-year relationship and he was unhappy. He stayed in for another four years, so we met up four years later. And I was actually back then acting and touring a one woman show.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
And I was really nervous because I was going to go promote my show on this radio station. And I get there and it's him. And he's one of the four hosts. And so I just felt like I felt at ease. And we I got to see him in his element. And like, it was fun. And I all the nerves went away. Yeah, we went out to see me in this show. And like, yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
He got to really know me because that show was completely about my pursuit of love. It was called Rocks in My Salsa.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
It’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)
Yeah, it was about all of the rocks in my... along the way in trying to find love. And so he was like, you know, he was just taking notes and now we're married 17 years later with three kids.