All right. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the three questions. I'm Andy Richter. And today I am lucky enough to get to talk to Shannon Woodward, the nonstop actress now, now full on gamer, right?

I mean, yeah, I've just game or come before actress now, no, or actor. No, I'm still like an actor. It's just I also play games. And now I just have a Twitch channel because what else was I doing in the pandemic?

Yeah, yeah. What were you doing in the pandemic? Mostly playing video games. Yeah.

Well, now you're you're not from LA. You're but you've been working in show business since you were tiny. Yeah, I moved here when I was like I was 15.

And I did work when I was a kid, but we were living I lived in Texas and South Florida twice, both twice because my dad worked for IBM. And they keep moving their software department around when we were.

I thought maybe just want to live in the classiest places in the country. Yeah, my parents just wanted me to see the best of the best. Yeah, yeah.

But yeah, so I ended up coming here from Florida. Yeah. Yeah. And did your whole family come on now tell me how do you start?

Now you're just there's just you have one other sibling. Yeah, I have a brother. And is he older or younger? He's younger.

And how do you go from being a kid in a house whose dad works at IBM to getting into movies and TV shows?

Well, and why? Why? It's funny. You should ask. It's it's a pretty convoluted story.

When I was so my mom was a figure skating champion is I mean, she she just isn't anymore. Yeah.

But so when I was little she put me into gymnastics because sports was kind of like the family business like that was how you know, special or whatever.

And she had bad knees and she blew her knees out really young and had to stop competing and she became a coach.

So when I was like five, I basically hurt my knees learning how to do like some crazy trick on a harness because you know if you're not elite by the time you're like 12 is a gymnast, that's it.

And then I was like, five, you're like, you're really jamming. And the they had to take me to a sports doctor and they were like, yeah, she's going to need new knees by the time she's 15, but she might make it to the Olympics by then.

And I was like, what? And my mom was basically like, well, I mean, that's that you have my needs like we got to do something else with you. And I was she was like, what am I going to do with you now?

I want to live inside the TV. And she was like, that's not a thing people can do is like people are so happy inside the TV. I'd like to live there where people are happy.

And so then it became like this. Now does that just distress your mother that that's your viewpoints should have. However, that's not necessarily in her makeup.

I got you.

I'm sorry to interrupt, but I know that's fine. I said one of the what I could said that to me. I would just die. That's a very fair. You're good parent.

And so then the next the next kind of step for this fixation came like a couple years later. No, no, that was around the same time.

And I was watching this movie Little Man Tate. And I loved that movie because it was about like a tiny genius and like his mother didn't understand him, but like Diane weasel shows up and is like, you're special. Let me take you and make you special and take care of you.

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