Adam Shankman Dishes on Directing Betty White in "Bringing Down the House!"
Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast
H Alan Scott, Kerri Doherty
4.5 ā¢ 605 Ratings
šļø 30 July 2025
ā±ļø 73 minutes
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H. Alan Scott/Sadie Pines and Kerri Doherty are joined by director Adam Shankman to chat about his experience directing Betty White in the 2003 comedy hit "Bringing Down the House." Plus, he dishes on growing up in Hollywood, going to Bea Arthur's house, and hanging with Rue McClanahan!Ā
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| 0:00.0 | Picture at Los Angeles 2025. |
| 0:13.4 | Oh, hi, and welcome to Out on the Lanai, the only Golden Girls podcast you're ever going to need to listen to. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm H. Holland Scott slash Satie Pines. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Carrie Dordy, and today we're doing a Beyond Golden Girls episode where we cover the many film and TV projects that the women did outside of the Golden Girls during the course of their illustrious careers. |
| 0:38.2 | And today we are diving into Betty White's appearance in the 2003 comedy, Bringing Down the House. |
| 0:45.6 | There was this one person on Survivor last season. |
| 0:48.6 | His name's Kevin. He's become a friend of life. |
| 0:50.2 | Oh, wow. We are off the rails. I thought you were maybe going to introduce our guest, but go on. |
| 0:54.8 | Before we get to the guest. |
| 0:56.0 | And every single time you say, we dive into another, whatever, you don't say it like |
| 1:03.2 | B Arthur, I just did. |
| 1:04.3 | But the way this contestant dived on Survivor last season, he like, he like folded himself over and then |
| 1:14.5 | went headfirst into the, it was, it went viral. It was one of the funniest dives you'll ever see in |
| 1:20.5 | your life. And now every time you say dive, I think of that dive whenever that you say that. |
| 1:26.5 | I really hope this is someone's very first time listening to the podcast and they're like, |
| 1:31.1 | what? |
| 1:33.0 | What does this have to do with Betty? |
| 1:35.0 | I hope, I hope like long time listeners find it endearing that I am as, because I don't get |
| 1:42.2 | many opportunities to be unhinged in my life. |
| 1:44.7 | I'll say that. |
| 1:45.3 | Most of the time I have to be, I have to follow a script and I have to follow a set of questions |
| 1:50.4 | and I have to follow. |
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