So this was interesting. You might not know this actress if you haven’t watched Cobra Kai.
But the woman who played Daniel Lar Russo’s wife in Cobra Kai, the six season series that just ended when they released the last five episodes back in February. Her name is Courtney Hanger, I think that’s how you pronounce her last name. She was Daniel Russo’s wife for all six seasons of Cobra Kai. She took to her Substack account a couple weeks ago and said, I’m done acting.
I hung up my gloves. I called my agents and told them I was tapping out. I no longer wanted to be a cog in the wheel of the machine. She basically said her whole professional life was acting. She’s been acting for 20 years and she got a bunch of bit roles. She was small roles on Jane the Virgin Henry Danger, Royal Pains mom, NCIS, criminal Minds, big Bang Theory.
She also appeared in films, friends with benefits, nobody’s fool and feed, but they were all bit parts. She finally got that part that she wanted and then she’s like, I’m out and she doesn’t wanna do it anymore. She doesn’t want to act and you know. I commend her. Hopefully, you know, this was the decision she needed to make.
I don’t know if she’s married. I think she is. So obviously a lot probably went into this decision to end her acting career. But she basically says, I was on a series, a successful series. I made money. My face was on the billboards. I longed for, for 20 plus years. I was directed by George Clooney, for God’s sake.
This, by all definitions, is the golden goose. But she wasn’t happy. She said, for years, I silenced the voice in my head, begging me to walk away the voice, the constant gnawing, not because of the acting itself, but because of the gauntlet I had to run, to reach the acting. What once felt necessary, something I willingly participated, even celebrated, became stifling.
So my guess is this took a toll on her mental health. And now that the series that she was on for six years has ended, she fears. Just getting a bunch of bit parts is my guess. So I can’t sit here and tell her that was the wrong decision. I thought she was really good. I had never even seen her before the Cobra Kai series, but she was really good.
She was a very stabilizing force on the Cobra Kai Show. Played the mother role very, very well. Had some great lines and yeah, for thoroughly enjoyed her on Cobra Kai. So Courtney Geller, hats off to you for a very. Illustrious career and I hope you’re happy with your decision. Good luck in retirement.
We’re gonna miss you. Yesterday I brought up the Breakfast clubs reunion, this 40 year anniversary reunion that they participated in at the C two E two pop culture convention on Saturday in Chicago. It’s the first time all five stars in the movie Anthony, Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Ali Shedi, Emilio Estevez, and Molly Ringwald were all together.
And you remember the storyline? There were only two women in the in the cast. The main cast, obviously Molly Ringwald and Ali Sheie. And Ali Sheie was like the really weird one who didn’t shower and whose hair covered her face and she had bad makeup on and she had dandruff. We all remember her character in the show.
Allison? Well, I. Claire who played, was played by Molly Ringwald at the very end gives her a makeover. Well, Molly Ringwald said at this reunion, she was not happy with that storyline. She didn’t like the way it went, but she was not the director. She was not the writer. She gave John Hughes her opinion that she didn’t like the fact that she gave Allie, she’s character Allison, a complete makeover to make her look quote unquote pretty when all she had to do was maybe.
Just make like clean her up, like take the makeup off her face and just say like, look, she’s still a beautiful woman, even though she is kind of weird and is a kleptomaniac that she was in the movie. But Molly Ringold came out and said, I thought it would’ve been better just to strip off all of the makeup and just have Ally’s face fresh scrubbed because it’s so beautiful.
I didn’t like the way they did her hair at the end. I was not responsible. And we remember Molly did this to her. Basically gave her a makeover, did her makeup, did her hair, and Ali Sheie, the character. Allison comes out at the end of the movie and you’re just like, wait, that’s Ali Sheie. Obviously we knew what Ali Sheie looked like going into the movie, but the character she played in the movie for the first 95% of it the way she looked was like, like I said.
Had a lot of clothes on, ratty, her hair was in her eyes, makeup was bad. And then they did her up, made her look very girly girl. And basically Molly is saying, I didn’t like that. She wasn’t that girly girl. She was this recluse and kleptomaniac. And I didn’t think they should have done her up that way. And apparently.
Allie Allison didn’t think it was a great, she didn’t like it either, and she expressed her discontent to John Hughes and she said, I’m not a big makeup person. I don’t particularly subscribe to the idea that you have to look a certain way to suddenly look gorgeous to everyone. I like how Allison looked Anyway, but it was a moment of passage in that movie.
I. It had to, I guess, with her becoming more part of the group in some way, not using what she looked like to put people off to become more inviting in some way. And then Emilio’s character had to somehow see her as pretty, she says. I don’t think it needed to happen, but I think everybody needed to have their moment of truth.
And I guess that was something for Allison. So here we are 40 years later and the two women in the movie didn’t really approve of that storyline. Interesting to note the whole performance and their whole appearance at the C two E two this past weekend in Chicago where the cast appeared for the first time.
A whole hour of it is on YouTube. If you want to check it out just go to YouTube and type in, don’t you forget about me. Which might be a song in the eighties, playlist at my party on May 31st. Hint, hint. But it’s called, don’t You Forget About Me, the Breakfast Club reunion or something like that.
Type that in on YouTube. You’ll be able to see the video pop up. And finally, I wanna talk about this, the Blue Origin space voyage that a few celebrities took. Gail King, Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos wife, who. What’s her name? Sanchez. Lauren Sanchez. A funny story about her from back in the day, ’cause Lauren Sanchez used to be in sports.
When I was in sports back in the early late nineties, early two thousands. She was working at Fox Sports TV at the time. Lot of stories about her back then, about her lack of knowledge about sports, and it was basically she was put on TV because she was hot. Anyway. Not here to talk about that. Am here to talk about the Blue Origin space launch.
They went up into space for like 11 minutes yesterday. I know that this is causing a lot of turmoil with some celebrities that are just like, this is tone deaf. What are they doing? There’s so much more important things to spend money on. Why are we sending them to space? And look, I kind of see both sides.
I get it. If this is what women wanna do and be a part of the first, what are they? I mean, it’s, it was historic in that they were a part of the first all female crew that went into space. I mean, that’s something, right? I, I’m not gonna sit here and shit on them for it. But I also understand that people that say it’s kind of tone deaf dealing with the times that we’re in right now, it seems like a waste of money.
I’m not gonna debate whether or not they should or shouldn’t have gone up into space. What I’m gonna say is this. Any single time we have some sort of space launch, especially in something like that. This wasn’t like a giant shuttle that they were in and they were like going to the moon or anything like that.
I understand it was 11 minutes. This wasn’t some expedition where we sent celebrities off in a space and they were gonna live there for 30 days. And God forbid something bad happened for me though. And they’re not asking me to join the Blue Origin space launch or be a part of it. I’m just saying being cooped up in something.
I don’t wanna say it’s small, but it’s not a shuttle. Especially after we had that one thing that exploded when it went underwater. What was that last year? Maybe it was the year before. I can’t even remember when that was. But that guy that was just like, oh yeah, we’re going to send this thing into the deepest depths of the ocean and the thing.
Exploded and whatever, six people died. When it’s something like this, and I know it was only 11 minutes, but God forbid I just get freaked out by any sort of space launch. I just, and honestly, you know why? Because I was right at the impressionable age of, I believe it was fifth grade. I remember being in class that day and the TV has turned on and we found out about the calendar explosion.
Not like I have any sort of PTSD from it, but just seeing that as a kid, anytime I see a space launch. Well, I guess saying not having PTSD, anytime I see a space launch, I think something’s gonna explode. Is that having PTSD from the challenger from 1985? I don’t know, but I, I guess I feel more comfortable if it is actually a ship that goes up in a space, not this little thing that looks like a penis or like a little mini rocket or whatever.
You know, you’ve saw, probably seen what this Blue Origin thing looked like. I just get weirded out by stuff like that. Now, obviously I’m glad they got their 11 minutes in space. They floated around in there. Ka Perry apparently sang a song. She released her playlist for her tour that I’m actually going to in May.
It worked great. Fine dandy. I’m just saying those things really weird me out. I just, I just feel like so many things can go wrong ’cause they’re not something that happens every day. I. You know, commercial airlines, flights in the United States. How many commercial airline flights take off and land every single day?
Thousands. You know, very rarely do we have any accidents. You know, knock on wood, it’s very rare that we get those. But when a space launch happens way less frequently than planes land and take off, and these space launches are going to places that don’t happen on a normal domestic flight or even an international flight, I just get the heebie-jeebies.
And I feel nervous and I’m not even part of it. I don’t know anybody that was on that flight. I’m just saying I’m not sitting here and debating whether or not politically, this is something we should have done and what the hell were these women thinking? There’s so many more important things like, I’m not gonna sit here and do that.
You, well, other people will let, I’ll let argue about that O online. I’m just talking about the idea of going up in space. Even if it is for 11 minutes. I just feel like it is such a risk. Because it’s just done so infrequently and it’s, I don’t know, you could say like, Hey, there’s experts behind it. They know exactly what to do.
No, I saw the CH Challenger explode as a fifth grader, so don’t tell me that they all know what they’re doing. Clearly all it takes is one rocket or one engine to go kaput, and those people are floating around in space. Well, obviously they’re, you know what I mean? I’m just, I’m glad they’re back. Let’s just say that and let’s just say, I would never, in a God, God zillion years, gazillion God million years ever be interested in going to space like that.
I don’t even care if it’s for five minutes. No, thank you. I’m fine here on Earth. Anyway. Thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcasts. Also, rate and review, but you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts as a download. The Sports Daily coming up an hour from now.
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