This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

Give me money for cigarettes.

I'll never leave your filthy bed.

I stay in the night and one night weekend, two or three years, the kids are not all right,

but that's okay because no one here is Teen Beat.

Hello, and welcome to another week of Teen Beat.

I'm Danielle Fissel, podcaster, TV director, celebrity ballroom dancer,

mother of two, and one half of Corey and Topanga.com, a website made by ABC when I was 18 years old

for viewers to RSVP to my fictional televised wedding. And in addition to the website, my entire teenage existence, from 12 to 19 years

old, unfolded in front of a live studio audience and millions of viewers at home. Whether it was my

first kiss or my first haircut, pop culture saw it all. So now, 30 years later, it's time to turn

the tables. My goal here on Teen Beat is to sit down

with interesting people who have accomplished interesting things in hopes that learning about

their un-televised upbringings will help us understand who they've become. Since their journey

through puberty wasn't detailed in issues of TV guide, the least they can do is share it with me now.

I gave you my childhood. It's time we hear yours. And this week, I think I found the perfect guest.

Like those little gold necklaces that say your name in cursive, she was first seen on sex in the city.

But since that debut,

this youngest of five children has never stopped working. Whether it was a scene-stealing turn in the 40-year-old virgin or the charming rom-com lead in Nick and Nora's infinite playlist, she quickly

became the actress Everyone Noticed. So Hollywood responded. She'd appear on TV sets

for six seasons as Max Black on the hit CBS sitcom Two Brokgirls. Then, thanks to the Thor movies

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