Christy Carlson Romano and Kyla Pratt on How They Shed Disney Pasts on Special Forces
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00:00So, the two of you couldn't look more gorgeous, glamorous, dolled up and I know that is quite
00:05literally the opposite of what Special Forces is.
00:09So, what was it like not having these beautiful dresses, not having hair and makeup, really
00:13stripping down and showing the world a raw form of yourself?
00:17It was very interesting.
00:18I'm, you know, I'm not really a big, like, I walk around, I don't wear makeup all the
00:23time.
00:24Like, I like to be fresh faced.
00:25And literally in this situation, before you come on, they're like, hey, it's no makeup,
00:28it's no hair, it's no this, it's no that.
00:29Are you comfortable?
00:30And I'm like, sure.
00:31And this is the one time I get my eyebrows done and all of a sudden I break out and I'm
00:34like, okay, we're going to be on camera with just a whole bunch of, I mean, you get over
00:39that quickly once you feel like you're about to die.
00:42You no longer care what you look like, so I was looking forward to seeing how that actually
00:46looks.
00:47Are we using the word die and death?
00:50That's how close it got?
00:51Oh yeah, no.
00:52When I explained it to my family, I'm like, yeah, I drowned about three times, but I'm
00:56still here, you know?
00:58There's a famous quote that says, in order to get something that you've never had, you
01:01got to do something that you've never done.
01:03You are here to prove you have something about you.
01:06I'm scared, like really scared.
01:09It's about taking that leap of faith.
01:18Bruh.
01:19It was rough.
01:20Of course, I follow your podcast.
01:21You always look so gorgeous and glamorous.
01:23What was it like not having that treatment on this show?
01:26Oh, I mean, I do my own makeup and hair and stuff like that usually, but I, yeah, I mean,
01:31I'm 40 now, and so it's one of those things where I was like, oh, I'm not going to have,
01:35I didn't have eyelashes.
01:36Some of the other girls had eyelashes.
01:37You had eyelashes.
01:38Mm-mm.
01:39We all tried to look our best.
01:40I had a different hair color.
01:41A whole different thing.
01:42We pivot.
01:43We change.
01:44We do things.
01:45I had to basically just, I wasn't there to look good.
01:46Let's put it that way.
01:47Right.
01:48I was not there to look good.
01:49I was there for something greater than me, something, I was looking for an experience.
01:52I got that experience.
01:53Yeah.
01:54And that's kind of where I was at.
01:56I think for me, it's like you go into something like, I think we're just like, we're people.
01:59We like, I don't wear makeup every day.
02:01I like to be relaxed.
02:02I like to wear sweats.
02:03But then being there, you realize, oh, wait, I'm going to be sleep deprived.
02:06I'm going to be hungry, and I'm going to be getting yelled at.
02:08I'm going to be wet.
02:09So everything that I felt pretty about, just in my natural beauty, that's going away.
02:15It's going to be stripped.
02:16So we're going to see.
02:17You know what?
02:18I think you put, you nailed the, you nailed it on the head where it's like, I didn't come
02:22here to be the glamorous actress version of myself.
02:24I came here to do something else.
02:26And I also think that we wanted to show that other side of ourselves.
02:28You know, we've come through Disney over the years, and we have a very curated image.
02:33People see us in a very particular way.
02:35This is an opportunity for people to see us as women, as mothers, as, you know, empowered
02:39women.
02:40You have Penny Proud Kim Possible, like, we're kicking butt.
02:43Crazy.
02:44Crazy.
02:45I was going to say, I'd be remiss if I didn't acknowledge, I have two Disney icons standing
02:49with me here today.
02:51Does this-
02:52You said it.
02:53You said it.
02:54I did say it, and I will keep that on the record.
03:08Two Disney icons, does that make for more sisterhood on this show, or does it make for
03:13more competition?
03:14Oh, no.
03:15Oh, never, never.
03:16This one.
03:17Are you kidding me?
03:18Complete sisterhood.
03:19Yeah.
03:20I feel like, I feel like that with all of us.
03:21I'm going to say this right now.
03:22It could have been someone else or anybody else.
03:24Not anybody else, but it could have been certain people in any of that world of, you know,
03:28whatever.
03:29And then I might have been a little worried.
03:30I would have tried my best, but when I saw her in the beginning, and I had no idea it
03:36was going to be her.
03:37We didn't know.
03:38We didn't know who else was going to be on the cast.
03:39I can't even tell you how grateful I was that it was Kyla Pratt.
03:41I was like, okay, God, God, you love me.
03:43It's this one.
03:44You know I got her.
03:45And ditto.
03:47Were you really leaning on one another during these difficult circumstances?
03:50We leaned a lot.
03:51I have to say.
03:52I think, I think, I feel like we leaned a lot.
03:53I kissed you a lot.
03:54What do you mean?
03:55She was just very, very emotional.
03:58You bond, like even with this group of people, like there's certain people here that I don't
04:02know if I would have ever met Alana, who's a pro surfer.
04:05You know what I mean?
04:06But getting to know her and being around her, and then also all of us experiencing this
04:10together.
04:11Once you're in a trauma situation, like you're going to, so you're, you're, you connect with
04:17people who you might have not even talked to, you know, otherwise.
04:21And then having this one here, knowing someone, having some type of comfortable familiarity,
04:27and then knowing like the type of people that we are outside of situations like this.
04:30It's like, okay, I know I got somebody.
04:32You know what I mean?
04:33Have you been friends since the nineties?
04:36Or did you really kind of reconnect during this?
04:38We reconnected.
04:39We've kind of like, we've seen each other throughout the years.
04:42She was on my YouTube channel briefly, but it was COVID.
04:45So we were not in the same space.
04:48So we kind of reconnected then, but just enough for me to be like, oh my gosh, that's Kyla.
04:53I'm seeing her.
04:54This is going to be great.
04:55So it was, it was like, yeah, we reconnected.
04:57It was a breath of fresh air.
04:59This was not on my bingo card.
05:00I could never have thought this would happen.
05:03Going in, they don't tell you who else is going to be on the show.
05:05Like you don't, you have no idea.
05:06We don't find out until the first day.
05:08We were even picked up separately.
05:10Like from, you're here.
05:13I have to know, how did Cadet Kelly prepare you for special forces?
05:18Ribbon twirling 101.
05:29Came in real handy when you were like trying not to drown, right?
05:32Absolutely.
05:33Ribbon twirling 101.
05:34Yep.
05:34Amazing.
05:36I know you have a family back at home in Texas.
05:37I do.
05:38What was it like leaving them to go do this?
05:40What did they make of this?
05:42We missed Mother's Day to be there.
05:44And, you know, I think we both kind of had a calling to be there.
05:48And, you know, for me, my husband's a Marine veteran.
05:51He was helping me train weeks and weeks before.
05:53But this was something that I felt like it would bring us closer together,
05:57as well as sort of kind of being, you know, Kim Possible IRL
06:00and like doing something very cool for my daughters to look up to.
06:03I'm very grateful for the experience and all that transpired.
06:08You will see.
06:08It was super difficult. My kids are a little bit
06:11older, so my kids have phones and they're like, wait, what do you mean?
06:14We like if I leave for work at any time, it's like, oh, you can call me anytime.
06:18You can whenever you hit me.
06:19I'm going to answer the phone.
06:20But this time I was like, mommy's not going to have her phone for a long time.
06:24So and they're like, what do you mean?
06:25I was like, well, you can text me, but I won't see it.
06:28What?
06:29Like it was just like an understand, like trying to explain it.
06:33But I'm also that mom where I'm like, I got to prepare you for this life.
06:36I want you to I want you to want me, not need you need me as you get older.
06:40So mommy's not going to be there all the time.
06:43And these are the tools.
06:44And we have wonderful partners.
06:46So it's not, you know, and a great support system in our in our home.
06:50So it's it's kind of like, hey, you don't have to control everything.
06:53Like he's got this like you're good.
06:55You know, like he's good.
06:57Yeah. Yeah. It's also an opportunity for the our partners to step in as well.
07:01So, yeah.
07:02I think a lot of celebrities sign up for special forces because it's so healing.
07:08There's trauma in your life.
07:09There are things that have happened to all of us
07:11that I assume you go on this show to strengthen that physical strength
07:15in that mental.
07:16What was it that you most wanted to heal from in doing this show?
07:21Public opinion.
07:22I think that, you know, growing up as a child actor,
07:25people have a very specific viewpoint on who they think you are.
07:29And I think doing this show kind of unmasked that I am a three dimensional
07:33person and I feel pain and I've lived a full life
07:36outside of whatever people's Google searches.
07:40So I'm very grateful that this is going to showcase, you know, me
07:43and people that I care very much about in a different light.
07:48I think for me, I was I was just a fan and I was excited.
07:52Like I was like, oh, I want to do crazy stuff and I want to jump out of things.
07:56And you're built different.
07:58I was like, yeah.
07:58And I was like, and I like to be challenged.
08:00And I mean, them yelling at me, that's going to be probably the hardest thing
08:03because I don't like in your regular life.
08:05Anybody that was really hard for me.
08:06No, it was I mean, it was hard.
08:07But it was also you you gain such a respect for these men
08:10that it's kind of like you don't want to disappoint them.
08:12So the yelling turns into something else.
08:14And it opened up a bunch of different things that, you know, you might have
08:18thought you were healed from.
08:19And but to be in a situation like this and to be so vulnerable
08:23and in a situation where you're no longer in control, I love,
08:26you know, what Chrissy said as well, like the public opinion.
08:29And I really tell people because all the time, like I'll let you know,
08:32I don't give a damn about certain stuff.
08:34But I also sit back and I know I know this image was made of me
08:38as a young girl that I was like, what?
08:40I was just taught to respect my elders and move a certain way
08:42and do things a certain way.
08:44And and I tell my family, I'm like, well, the world is about to meet
08:46the real Kyla because she's acting up on special forces.
08:50And yeah, you were you were a lady through and through.
08:54I can assure you that.
08:55Oh, yeah.
08:55And I can assure you as a Disney kid that Penny Proud and Ren Stevens
08:59and Kim Possible are very proud of what you've done.
09:01Oh, yes. Thank you.
09:03Thank you. Congratulations.