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California. Tinseltown. Where

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dreams are made, dreams are

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broken, and nearly every day

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something completely crazy happens to

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someone. On Bullseye, we

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chronicle such stories in a little segment we

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call the craziest day

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of my entire career. On

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deck this week, Lisa Ann Walter.

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She stars on Abbott Elementary, a

1:03

hit sitcom about a Philadelphia public

1:06

school. Walter plays teacher Melissa

1:08

Shementy. Miss Shementy

1:10

is great with kids, loves her

1:12

co-workers, and is pure

1:15

Philly to the bone. This

1:18

guy does not look like an eagle.

1:20

Hey, pipe down. He could be a punter if he wanted

1:22

to. Go ahead. Lisa Ann Walter

1:24

has been in the business for a long time.

1:26

She's seen a lot, and when we asked her

1:28

about the craziest day of her career, she took

1:30

us back to 2010 and

1:32

the set of the Ashton Kutcher action

1:35

comedy, Killers. A

1:37

quick warning before we play the segment, there is

1:39

some talk of gun violence. Nothing too graphic. Wanted

1:41

to let you know though. All right, here we

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go. Lisa Ann Walter on

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the craziest day of her entire

1:48

career. Hi, I'm

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Lisa Ann Walter, and this is

1:53

the craziest day of my entire career. The

2:04

whole lot of all of them. One

2:07

that I stand against us. Fear

2:09

that. Say that? I

2:12

became a sun person. Having

2:14

never. Done since before

2:16

in my life. Son's

2:19

riding never to millionaire,

2:21

never. Suiting

2:23

a firearm guys ever done

2:25

so in the movie Killers

2:27

I'm here the premises that

2:29

as input your had been

2:31

a international fi and see

2:33

his. Has fallen in

2:35

love with Katherine Heigl and they've moved to this

2:37

little suburb. I

2:40

work for the blah blah blah and

2:42

Bjp a license the block. Fi

2:47

or never my primary interest. Or

2:54

I got out of friends he seekers out the

2:56

people trying to kill him. And then he

2:58

is like oh my God who is it? My.

3:01

Character is a cougar that comes

3:03

onto him his birthday party I

3:05

need to kinda scylla. Sentencing

3:10

they say someone else in is

3:12

something you insist is just as

3:15

have with every man. Woman

3:19

and haven't been on fly out of

3:21

go open a beer with where they

3:24

just many defense and literally until I

3:26

walked in for the wardrobe sitting. I.

3:29

Thought I was that the nosy neighbour

3:31

wearing a tracksuit. I. Got the

3:33

job offer. It said playing a

3:35

Libya. And. Before that it was like

3:38

Mrs. Somebody. And I I was

3:40

like oh I'm. You. Know, I guess

3:42

they changed the name. Of my character. I

3:44

saw the wardrobe and the wardrobe was.

3:48

Seven inch platform shoes. Mini.

3:51

Skirts. You. Know push up

3:53

bra us. And. I went oh

3:55

my god, I'm the cougar assassin. So

3:57

I never read any of the things that she was.

4:00

Knowing. I found out when

4:02

I got to Atlanta to this movie. That.

4:04

I was going to be stunt robbing a mustang

4:06

and shooting o'clock. I'd

4:15

never in my career done anything set

4:18

really at any level of danger. know

4:20

at that stage I was maybe forty

4:22

four or five I just didn't think

4:25

was in the cards for me. I

4:27

did this that part of my for

4:29

this opportunity to play a role like

4:31

that like he. It's.

4:45

Is in my lap and may he

4:47

sees gives is easy. This since I

4:49

was taught myself out of it like

4:51

I'm not a girl that they hired

4:53

to. Those are. I

5:06

mean I read the description soy sauce

5:08

densely knew what was happening but I

5:10

didn't realize I was gonna be the

5:12

one doing it for some reason. I

5:14

read it and I thought although that

5:16

someone that looks like makes it was

5:18

a double bogey, someone at that looks

5:21

like me to do this driving sun

5:23

which involved me getting behind the wheel

5:25

of the Mustang which I'd already done

5:27

one little seen as Loring. It. Like

5:30

trying to run over asked

5:32

and doing a loop around

5:35

like this little I'm. You

5:38

know like this so little parking

5:40

lot in front of this building.

5:42

Driving again as him full speed

5:44

pedal to the metal. And

5:46

getting t boned and the way they

5:49

do that is. They put the

5:51

car on a chain and the Yankees.

6:00

Never. I mean I've never been, not

6:02

would have never been and you know

6:04

anything but a center bednar. I know

6:07

what was going to happen. You

6:09

know, negative, get whiplash. My God I am I

6:12

not going to put a brake on and like

6:14

hit a wall Or am I going to run

6:16

over until America's sweetheart. As to the that. We

6:20

had it stunk ordinator Doug Coleman who's just

6:22

top of the game. The best in the

6:24

business. And he was. Really?

6:28

Once I found. Out that it

6:30

was me and I literally was standing there

6:32

like. Waiting. For the stump, personally

6:34

get in. And. All the cruise looking

6:36

at me, And. They go. Okay,

6:40

Like. Buckle. Up on my

6:42

work. Or was me

6:44

I do as. I. Saw got

6:46

in a car. And. And

6:49

I tentatively drove forward. There were like

6:51

no, yep, yep to damage. You

6:53

know you would have thought. Said.

6:56

There would have been a trial run. Like.

6:58

That here's a light burst of it. Year.

7:02

Know. Spinning

7:12

tires, spitting gravel, smoke coming out the

7:14

back of the. Gonna

7:17

have a. He knew

7:19

a lot of that. sounds it far as

7:21

I'm a fan of muscle cars. I

7:23

like see what I've never done

7:25

it aiming at at and a

7:27

famous actor and wall. As.

7:38

Out and the the same yanked

7:40

the car. We went flying sideways

7:42

a did not get with last

7:44

and I popped out the parts

7:46

that less. And

7:52

the crew died laughing says they

7:54

were as everybody has a big

7:56

burly men clapper me on the

7:58

back and days. That's that's the

8:00

answer that we we love to hear.

8:03

That's. That's the response. A good about half

8:05

the time that happens. There. Was

8:07

great. Yeah. Days out over there.

8:18

So. We have

8:20

lots of I said. They

8:23

tell me about next sequences gonna

8:25

happen and seek when. I

8:28

go after fast as again and

8:30

hit his head off you know

8:33

all so full out aiming towards

8:35

him he jumps into a trailer.

8:39

And I pull out a gun and

8:41

start shooting a Glock. Had

8:43

him and then I. Blow up. A

8:46

did I did. I neglects to mention that part. They

8:57

do pyrotechnics right where you

8:59

are. They like stuff on

9:01

fire quickly. He kind of

9:03

explode and it's hot. It's

9:07

hot as there's a level of trust

9:09

involved with sick getting on. Negative: My:

9:11

I have a lot of hairspray on

9:13

so so any use Parker Flame I

9:16

would have gone up but I'm. saying

9:18

they do have like a bit of with

9:20

explosion and then they had imposed said. It's

9:23

like a bigger explosion. Siebel.

9:26

No guns when they see. An actor

9:28

was holding it wrong as first thing they

9:30

do is start get mad dog home and

9:33

taught me on that said hey how to

9:35

hold it's would look like I knew what

9:37

i was doing. As

9:39

very important cause yeah, I'm

9:41

a professional Madison. The

9:44

very next thing he taught me was how to check the gonna

9:46

make sure it was cold which he did. And

9:48

I said. I don't know

9:51

what I'm checking for. And

9:53

he said i'm going to show you. And

9:55

I don't care who on this

9:57

set hands you this gun. You.

10:00

Don't take it from anybody but me. You.

10:02

Don't pick it up from anywhere. You. Don't

10:04

take it from any one. I'm. The only

10:07

one who will hand you this firearm. And.

10:09

I will tell you that it's cold. You.

10:12

Also after I had it to. You.

10:14

Check it. I'm. Like okay, but

10:16

I'm a detective. Runny Yolks are what I'm

10:19

ticket for and so he said he agreed

10:21

to do that. not and I said to

10:23

him i don't want to have anything to

10:26

do with shooting or something that I'm not.

10:28

A shirt is safe. So.

10:30

He soared me that it was and and it

10:32

to me. And will Basically what

10:34

I did was to say i don't

10:36

want to be responsible for this somebody

10:39

else Make sure like a big baby

10:41

sit me. So.

10:43

And as in that case, they did says I

10:45

wasn't trying to be cocky. I mean almost of

10:47

a girl. Wearing. Taught

10:49

our heels like I'm not trying to look like a

10:51

route and suit and cowboy like I don't know what

10:53

I'm doing. You

11:03

know that day? Honest. To God

11:06

I was a little almost eerie I'd

11:08

at the fact that I had never

11:10

played anything like that in my career.

11:12

I didn't know that this was something

11:15

that everyday walking around actress to do

11:17

so I just figured it would be

11:19

a dumb person. So it was me.

11:22

I was surprised but I say we

11:24

went out that night after doing all

11:26

this work with has done people that

11:29

were on and and the coordinator to

11:31

call minutes the other there was a

11:33

a woman that was. One of

11:36

the some people that was working with

11:38

be really closely that you know teach

11:40

me how do a lot this stuff

11:42

is really well respected a distant worlds

11:44

and i felt like one of amp

11:46

which when you're an actor as it's

11:48

a real brotherhood souls son phone and

11:50

they have for each other because they're

11:52

doing stuff that nobody else was new

11:54

so the fact that i was like

11:56

accepted among them have made me feel

11:58

really a baby silly. a true

12:00

badass. Lisa

12:03

Ann Walter. On the craziest day of

12:06

her entire career. It's time that she

12:08

played a cougar assassin in

12:10

an Ashton Kutcher movie. You can

12:13

catch Lisa on Abbott Elementary.

12:15

That very funny show is wrapping up

12:17

its third season right now on ABC.

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