WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.440 Him, Laura, Hi, how are you. I'm so excited to shot 2 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:07.320 with you. A huge fan of yours, by the way, so thank 3 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:12.800 you for talking to me. Absolutely, thank you for having me absolutely. 4 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:19.239 Now, you've been in like two iconic shows, right from Monk to of 5 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:23.879 course obviously The Office and also just your sense of humor and all the other 6 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:27.800 work that you have done. Obviously being recognized in the industry for it, 7 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:35.399 is comedy your heart or would did you even know that? I? You 8 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:38.799 know, look, I started acting professionally when I was six years old, 9 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:42.039 so I have done so much drama, so much comedy. I've done just 10 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:46.159 lots and lots of different things, and you know, you get known for 11 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.479 something and then people say, oh, that's it, you know, that's 12 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:51.799 what you do. But I do everything. I mean, I've been on 13 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:55.119 Broadway. I'm a singer, I'm a songwriter, I'm a dancer. You 14 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:57.880 know, I've done a lot of things. But yeah, I think it's 15 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:00.759 great. It's great that I'm known for, um, whatever you get known 16 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.319 for, that's you know, that's part of the that's part of the deal. 17 00:01:03.519 --> 00:01:07.519 Well after you want that, absolutely, But I would dare say comedy 18 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:12.040 is really really hard because either it works or it doesn't, you know, 19 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:17.599 And I feel like you have such a talent of crossing all boundaries. And 20 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:19.599 of course what am I hearing? I know we're gonna talk about clock, 21 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.599 I promise you, because that's horror. That's a whole other genre. So 22 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.319 we're gonna get into that. But but what are you have like a side 23 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:33.680 hustle with wallpaper? Am I hearing this right? I have started a line 24 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:38.079 of wallpaper. It's called Storyboards by Melaura Harden. And yeah, people can 25 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:41.719 check it out on my website, which is Melaura dot com. Okay, 26 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:45.680 so I love this. I love this about you, and I love that, 27 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.239 you know, I get to you know when you see somebody. I 28 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:49.680 mean, I don't know if you know this, but you're at my house 29 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:53.959 a lot. You're in my living room and sometimes you're at the kitchen table 30 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:56.519 because we can sent the island and watch you. So you're you're at our 31 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:00.959 house a lot and we just renovated. I didn't know about your wallpaper. 32 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.680 I would have supported you. So now I'm going to find a row. 33 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:08.680 I'm going to find a project because of you. Yes, you should, 34 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:14.199 you know, it's it would be amazing. It's amazing in bathrooms. It's 35 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.199 like, it's really fun if you want to just turn something into kind of 36 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:20.080 a little world. It's like a whole different a whole different world, a 37 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.759 whole different vibe. It's definitely bold and joyful and uh, it's like having 38 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:29.159 art on your wall. So actress, singer, writer, Triple Threat, 39 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:30.800 quadruple what is it? What do you? How do you add D I 40 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:35.039 Y? Like? What is that? Quinn tuple track? I don't even 41 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.599 know what that's like? How did you even get into like d I Y? 42 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.199 Or interior? Was that also another love? Well? I mean I've 43 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:46.960 always been making art. I've always been making collage art, and I and 44 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:51.520 I think that it sort of was just a natural thing that kind of came 45 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:54.479 from from this documentary actually that I've been working on for six years, which 46 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:59.400 I will bring to you when when I get that into the world. Um, 47 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:04.759 and my my subject has started using my collage art for kind of as 48 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.400 like a resting place, a kind of place to go into kind of a 49 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:13.080 world to kind of meditate on or feel like she had transported herself kind of 50 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:17.280 somewhere else that felt good and felt better than where she wasn't in that time 51 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:22.039 emotionally, So it was just sort of a thing that everybody kept saying, 52 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:23.560 I want these bigger, I want these bigger, I want these bigger, 53 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:29.199 and that I started collaborating with a wallpaper company and now they're bigger. All 54 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:30.719 right, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna put the link up with this blog 55 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:34.960 two on our iHeart radio site, and I'm telling you I will be getting 56 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.159 some wallpaper. But now more importantly it's common Yes, And coming up this 57 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:45.039 Friday, You've got a horror feature film coming out called Clock and it is 58 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:51.639 a horror movie on several layers. May I just say, like, first 59 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.680 of all, we're talking about our biological clock TikTok. That's a horror for 60 00:03:54.759 --> 00:04:00.439 some people. Then it's a clinical trial which could bring up all kinds of 61 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:03.680 feelings. Then it's like it's it's crazy, what is happening here with Clark? 62 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:09.159 What's going on? Yeah. So it's a Hulu original movie that'll be 63 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:13.360 out this Friday, the twenty eighth, and it's a story about a young 64 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:16.040 woman played by Diana Agron that is, you know, have his great life. 65 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:18.600 She has a great career, she has a great friends, family, 66 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:24.360 you know, and she's sort of doesn't really know she wants to change that 67 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:27.279 up. She has a really great husband and they have a great sex life, 68 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:31.360 and she's worried that if she has children that might change, and she's 69 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:35.279 getting a lot of pressure from all of those different factors, and so it 70 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:40.560 is suggests to her that she needs to go to this clinical trial that sort 71 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:44.959 of genius doctor is running, which is me, and that I am claiming 72 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:49.120 to be able to fix her biological clock, which in itself is a really 73 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:55.759 warped ideas. It's scary, and it's such a touch point. My goodness, 74 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:59.759 Like, was there like therapy on set, like when you guys need 75 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:03.519 to go for it? Well, you know, I mean, I've this 76 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:08.439 is sort of my first horror movie. Horror, you know, psychological thriller. 77 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:11.600 I like psychological thrillers. But I would say that, you know, 78 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.920 good horror is. I think the people that are real fans of it would 79 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:23.279 tell you that it's what it's for is it's for purging people's own individual fears 80 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:27.040 and their own terrors. They go and they see that and then they kind 81 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:30.279 of get to purge those terrors. I think that is absolutely what alexis Jack 82 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.879 Now, who wrote and directed it was doing, and I could tell she 83 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:40.240 had a real vision and a fresh voice. From her short short film Clock, 84 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.600 which also is on Hulu. People can see that there too, And 85 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:46.639 that was sent to me along with the script, and I you know, 86 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:47.519 when I saw that, I thought, oh, you know, this is 87 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:55.920 a really fresh take on you know, sort of the unique pressures of being 88 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:59.279 a woman in society. And I really I really liked it and wanted to 89 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:01.439 work with her. Well, Molura, I've seen some some clips of this. 90 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:04.000 I haven't seen the whole thing in truth, so I know it's it's 91 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:08.399 Friday. Um, it's exciting, it's Hulu. We're all going to be 92 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:14.000 watching it. Women especially love horror movies. They've done studies. Maybe we 93 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:15.839 know we're harboring stuff. Who knows. You know. Sometimes I watch a 94 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:18.800 lot of horror stuff and my husband's like, are we good? Everything okay 95 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:21.040 here? And you know, I'm like, yeah, no problem. As 96 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.199 long as we're you know, as long as you're doing what I need, 97 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:28.079 we're good. But I'm going to be watching this, so I'm very excited. 98 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:30.160 But one more thing, I don't know how much time I have loved 99 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.680 with you. But another thing, I like about clock is that I think 100 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:38.759 sometimes reality also when movies are done with a little bit of truth and reality 101 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:44.600 to them, I think they're even scarier, right, Like there's that psychological 102 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:48.000 feel, don't you agree? Yeah, totally, totally yes, And this 103 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.759 and this is it definitely has that. It's it's very close to the bone 104 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:56.759 I think for some people, and I think that makes it really powerful. 105 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.720 Um. I know I don't want to talk about other streaming networks or whatever, 106 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:01.639 but I you need to give you a nod for Transparent. Just fantastic, 107 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:08.079 absolutely incredible in there all of your projects. I really just love having 108 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:11.839 a chance to chat with you. Do you think you will consider or do 109 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.120 you have anything that maybe we don't know about. I know you mentioned the 110 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:16.519 documentary. Will will come back to you for that, but would you consider 111 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:21.439 doing structured I don't even know if you called sitcom, drama, drama or 112 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:26.439 whatever show a TV a structure TV show or series again, would you consider 113 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.360 that? Oh? Yeah, for sure. I mean, you know, 114 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:33.199 I'm always just looking for opportunities to be creative. So whatever whatever comes in 115 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.560 my way that really you know, lights me up that way it excites me, 116 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:40.920 then that's going to be that's going to be what I'm doing next. 117 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:46.480 All right, Well, Clock is exclusively on Hulu this Friday. We are 118 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.399 getting an exclusive right here. It will, from what I understand, go 119 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:53.040 on other streaming platforms at a later day in time, so we'll keep you 120 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:58.480 up to that. Melaura Harden not only beautiful, funny, many talents home 121 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.759 interior decorator. Oh if I buy your wallpaper, will you come over and 122 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:03.720 give me a DIY with it? Because I am clue, I am not 123 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:09.199 talented in anything. To be honest, I'm sorry, but I'm not a 124 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:15.079 wallpaper hanger. You're gonna have to hire a professional for that. I cannot. 125 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.759 That is like a divorce court right there in our house. I'm going 126 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.480 to have to have someone else, to have someone else do. But you 127 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:26.360 are an absolute delay. I wish you nothing but success in all of your 128 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:31.199 endeavors, whether they be in this industry or otherwise now that you're taking over 129 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:33.919 the world. But I really wish you a lot of success with Cluck, 130 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.159 and I know I'll be watching it. So thank you for your time today. 131 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.360 Thanks so much, have a wonderful day. Bye.