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Tia Carrere Sings Ronnie James Dio!

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Actress and musician Tia Carrere shares stories about the role that changed her life - Cassandra in Wayne’s World! She explains how Mike Myers personally told her she was his pick, how she learned to play bass and sing like Pat Benatar for the movie, and why the soundtrack became such a massive part of the film’s success. Tia has behind-the-scenes stories from True Lies including auditioning for James Cameron, working with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Bill Paxton, and the bold post-production decision she made that completely changed her character, Juno Skinner. She also talks about winning two GRAMMY Awards for Hawaiian music, her love of rock and metal (hear her impromptu Black Sabbath and Ronnie James Dio singing), and why music has always been at the center of her career. Tia discusses Lilo & Stitch, the emotional reason the story still resonates more than 20 years later, and what it means to help bring Hawaiian culture to audiences around the world. Plus, she talks about being discovered in Hawaii, her early days on General Hospital, almost becoming a regular on The A-Team, improvising on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and traveling the world on Relic Hunter. Talk Is Jericho is available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/ChrisJerichoFozzy 👍 Don’t forget to Like, Subscribe, and hit the 🔔 to stay updated on new episodes! More from Talk Is Jericho: 📸 Instagram: @chrisjerichofozzy | @talkisjericho 🐦 Twitter/X: @IAmJericho | @TalkIsJericho 🌐 Website: https://www.webisjericho.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Talk is Jericho, baby.

0:05.4

Talk is Jericho.

0:08.3

Talk is Jericho, Mama, talk is me.

0:13.5

So we'll just jump in here with Tia Carell, who looks amazing.

0:17.9

I love it.

0:18.2

You dressed up for the show today.

0:20.7

I dressed up. My hair is just frizzy.

0:23.0

Like it looks okay in the dark. I don't know. Once you put a camera on it, I'm like, okay, I'm a little

0:28.0

frizzy. Oh, whatever. It's rock and roll. It looks amazing. It's rock and roll. Yeah. For the usual

0:33.1

dregs of society that I have on this show, you look amazing. So let's talk first and foremost,

0:39.3

though, about your most important role and one of my favorites, rock and roll nightmare.

0:44.9

Rock and roll nightmare? What's rock and roll nightmare? You don't remember Rock and Roll

0:48.3

Nightmare? No. And has another name as well. Oh, wait. Zombie nightmare. Zombie nightmare.

0:54.1

Okay, yeah. I'm from Canada. So I think the name was Rock and Roll Nightmare, but also known as Zombie Nightmare. Oh, no way. I like that title way better. I would have put it on my IMDB if I knew that. Rock and Roll Nightmare sounds like a kick-ass, awesome movie. But Zombie Nightmare. Do you remember anything about that? Your very first movie? Well, no, my very first movie, I was discovered in a grocery store in Waikiki. It was called Aloha Summer. Oh, okay. So that was my first movie. I wasn't even graduated from high school yet in 1984. Anna Prudson Mother and Father approached me and said, Darling, you're gorgeous. You should be my son's movie. And that's how I got my Screen Actors Guild card and my first movie in 1984. But then I moved to L.A. And because of that, I got an agent. And so they got this little job that I shot up in Montreal. And it was crazy because I swear, I hope it's not liable as to say, but I think

1:47.2

somebody told me that their movies prior to this were like porn or something. But this was like,

1:53.2

you know, horror movie. So it was super low budget. And I wore my own clothes, my own wardrobes. I had

1:59.4

like, I don't know, white miniskirt or something.

2:02.5

And I had to run away from the zombie with caro syrup in my mouth,

2:07.9

run across, run downstairs, run behind, and hide behind a glass wall.

2:13.1

Why would you hide behind a glass wall?

2:16.0

And then he, of course, he comes behind me, pulls my hair. And that's when I'm supposed to spit out the caro syrup on the glass, and that's how I die. But I had to hold that caro syrup in my mouth the whole way, all the way there, probably like a full minute going, I hope I don't dribble on myself in the meanwhile. That is amazing that you actually have a story about that because we used to

2:34.9

watch that movie all the time because there was a guy in it called Thor. He was like a heavy

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