The Mary Beth Barone Interview

Hi Mary Beth.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

I'm so excited.

So firstly, you're quarantining at your parents' house, right? How are you finding that and just isolation as a whole?

It's been pretty hard.

I think the first two weeks was the worst, just getting used to not performing and not being able to see people and not go out and just getting used to this new lifestyle.

Then I came to Connecticut after I isolated for two weeks.

And so I've been here for over a month now and it feels almost normal, which I was scared for it to get to this point because I don't want it to feel like this is normal life.

But I definitely have my routine now and just trying to like keep myself busy and make stuff, even though obviously traditional formats are not available right now.

So it's weird.

It's nice to be home.

I feel like I'm kind of falling back into my old ways though, because I'm the youngest of six kids and I'm very youngest child.

I have a very youngest child energy.

So that's coming out a bit more, I think, for better or worse.

worse.Well, yeah, that's ...

We wanted to ask you a bit what you were like as a kid and in high school.

But I know whenever I go home, and you're probably the same, Izzy, I just revert back to being like all the worst parts of myself as a teenager.

I literally arrive home and just kind of collapse on the ground, and I'm like, I c- physically can't do anything for myself anymore.

I've been doing my own washing, my own cooking, everything for fucking years.

I just need someone to do it for me.

My mom's like, "Okay."

Yeah, I, I just want to be taken care of.

I just want to be like a little baby.

So it's, I guess as a kid, I've ...