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Grace Van Patten

Grace Van Patten

American actress

Jan 27, 2026

42:20
Next, actor Grace Van Patten, Amanda Knox, comedian Margaret Cho, and Josh Radnor.
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I am always on a mission to, to reclaim my inner child.
42:33
I really decided or realized that it was a part of myself that I wanna keep forever, and always reintroduce to myself when my, when my little sister was born-
46:44
There's anything you're, you're looking at reclaiming right now?
46:48
I think I'm really rec- trying to reclaim, like, a childlike wonder all the time.
46:54
Like, I wanna be so, like, not jaded about things.
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I don't wanna be cynical about things.
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I wanna actually have, like, innocence and wonder again about whatever it is.
13:36
No, amazing.
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Like...
13:37
Yeah, I just...
13:40
I...
13:40
It's like when we were talking about, we look at these people who go through these things, and I can't imagine being in a situation like that.
13:48
And then I meet somebody like you or Amanda who have had this public scrutiny, and both of you, I speak about this all the time, you...
13:57
The fact that you were able to maintain positivity and hope for the world, and you both are so extremely strong and confident women, and did not let this bad thing ha- that happened to you defeat you.

13 MINS LATER

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Yeah.
6:44
Totally.
6:45
Um, but that was a cr- I...
6:48
That experience, like I still get that feel- that... 'Cause that was my first...
6:54
I told my dad, my parents, like, "I wanna act," and they're like, "Okay." And I kept, I kept pushing them and pushing them, and my dad's like, "You can audition.
7:05
That's...
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Sure.
7:06
You can audition." And like I'll never forget that feeling of walking into Steiner Studios, and my mom was just like, "Let me go."

41 MINS LATER

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Um, but now that it's out in the world and it's, it sort of has breathing room of its own, how do you hope it'll reframe Amanda's legacy?
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... what do you remember about it?
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I remember, like, the most vivid memory was the audition.
12:56
Like, that is engraved in my brain.
13:00
It will be forever, because I have never been so nervous for something.
13:05
'Cause my, I was telling my parents, like, "I wanna be an actor.
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I wanna do that," but I was 8, and they were like, "Okay." And I kept bugging and bugging them about it until my dad was like, "All right, you can, you can audition.
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You can try and audition." And I remember to this day, like, every step of like walking to the elevator of Steiner Studios and like signing my name.

26 MINS LATER

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Who makes the first move? How do you guys decide to even, like, go on a date?

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