This was my scene!!!
Ok not exactly *my* scene but this was the scene that had a very special moment for me. 🥰
This was the first scene with Red and Kitty in the firsts episode I saw filmed. So it was the first time I saw Debra Jo Rupp and Kurtwood Smith on stage as Red and Kitty. They ran through it one time and were fabulous and before going into the second take. Debra Jo Rupp came up to the audience and said hello. She’s down on the stage floor right but she asks for the mic and the guy gives it to her, everyone’s cheering and it’s so exciting and then she talks about the kitchen and how she redid it and got rid of the owls and replaced them with berries lol and that later she’d give us a tour. And then guess what happened next!
She goes “Is there a Priscilla here?” My heart stopped and my hand shot up and she saw me and she was like ‘from that 70s show Golden couple?’ And I was like ‘yes! That’s me! Hi!’ She was said hi and then explained that i had this site thing that was online and I told her ‘instagram’
DJR: “It’s on installation?”
Me: “Instagram”
DJR: “Ok, well whatever it is, we’re grandparents now so..” 🤣
She then explained how the page is for her and Kurtwood with pictures and videos and stuff and she found it during COVID times which was 2 years of just being alone and she was like ‘I’m gonna cry’
I was like I already feeling like I was gonna cry too. And then she talked about the Cameos she did to help restaurants out in her home town and crowd cheered and then she explained I had bought one for myself and that then said ‘and I made a good one for her…it was good wasn’t it?”
Me: “Yes!”
DJR:”Ok, good because I would to so many and in different ones, some would come out better than others”
Then she said that she just wanted to thank me, and said, “Thank you for everything that you do for us” 💛 and she said that she was so glad that I could make it and she just wanted to give me a little shout out. Then she went back to shoot the scene. It was AMAZING!!
Later on in the filming Debra Jo Rupp and Kurtwood Smith were talking, she was giving her back to the audience and he was seated at the kitchen bar. Then she turned around and scanned the audience, like she was looking for someone she even had her finger kind of pointing, I felt like it could be me. I mean it was in my direction and she’d seen me before so I noticed and started waving back and and I swear she started smiling, pointing again and then waved back and sorta gestures to Kurtwood Smith and then Kurtwood Smith waved back too!! She had pointed me out to him!! MY HEART WAS SO HAPPY!!
I could not stop smiling. They were both looking at me, they saw me I know it!! And were waving and looking so happy, it really felt like they were waving hello to *me*! I wanna cry thinking about it, I swear I don’t know how I didn’t; cry there, I think I was just too happy.
Then Kurtwood cupped his hands over his mouth and shouted something I have no idea what it was I could just kinda here his voice but not what he was saying, if that make sense. But I really feel like he was trying to tell me something, probably something like thanks for coming or telling me hi. Whatever it was just the fact that it happened and that I literally had both of them telling me hi was just the sweetest greatest thing ever. They are the sweetest most kindest people ever! Ugh I love them!
At the end of the night as we were leaving I also called out to Debra Jo Rupp and got to talk to her for a little bit, thanking her for the shout out and telling her how much I loved the show. She was so sweet, thanking me again for coming and saying how she would’ve loved to take a picture with me but couldn’t because of COVID I was ok tho, super touched by her saying that and now I’m just hopeful for a season 2 with less Covid restrictions lol
There’s actually a lot more to the story, but I think I’ve rambled on enough if you wanna know more you can always send me an ask about it 😊
