All language subtitles for Very Important People s01e09 Leighanna-Jean Gruthers

Hey, it's Izzy. Just another normal day
in my life, knowing exactly what's going

on and where I'm supposed to go and who
I'm supposed to talk to.

Today we're giving this comedian a total
transformation.

What? They have no idea who or what
they're about to become.

Once they see themselves in the mirror,
they'll have to make up a character on

the spot and then sit down with me for
an improvised interview.

This is very important, people.

And three, two, one.

They're beautiful.

I'm tomorrow going to wear glasses. I
think this is actually going to make the

character. Oh, my.

What is happening? Well, the gown is the
most beautiful thing I've ever seen in

my entire life.

Category is mermaid got lost at the
Jersey Shore.

New Orleans.

psychic who's a manager at Waffle House.
But I also just sort of feel like I own

like a nail salon or like a travel
agency.

I think you should go to Bora Bora.

I'm there all the time. And the men are
generous.

My daughter's prom.

I'm chaperoning. She doesn't know.

This is my last year that I'm eligible
for toddlers and tiaras because I just

turned 18.

Gotta show these girls, you know, how
it's set.

We all have a story to tell, and
sometimes those stories need to be

the world.

Good evening.

I'm Vic Michalis, back with another
edition.

of very important people.

Can you please introduce yourself?

I'm Leanna Jean Grithers.

What a beautiful name. And Leanna, where
are you from?

I am from Hawkskill, Texas.

What do you do for fun out there?

I'm a pageant contestant, but, um,
sorry.

Do we have a tissue?

I can't use tissue.

Why can't you use tissue? The material.

It's too rough. It's too rough.

Yeah. For your face, I see.

I'm sorry.

I no longer work in Hawkskill.

I moved recently to sunny Orlando.

Disney. Yeah, right outside. Of Orlando.
About 50 minutes away.

So an hour away from Orlando?

Mm -hmm. Like Jacksonville?

What's the name of the, when you get
your mail, usually there's some sort of

a... I haven't registered an address. A
recent move.

Yeah. What brought you to Orlando in the
first place?

I work at a Disney -themed eating
establishment.

Oh, I see.

A Little Mermaid thing.

Okay. So I'm a Disney actor.

What character are you in The Little
Mermaid? I am...

Ariel adjacent?

One of her sisters.

People come to the restaurant right
after they leave Disney because it's so

close. The restaurant is also off of
Disney property, just the way I'm

this in my mind. Yeah. 50 minutes
outside of Disney Park. Is it across

line or is it in the state of Florida?
Yeah. It is across state line.

This is in Georgia.

No. No? No.

It's in Florida. I think it's in both.
Sort of on the line. Are you trying

Come, or why are you... Am I trying to
come to the restaurant? Yeah, you seem

really concerned with the location.

Well, this is an interview. I'm trying
to paint a picture of your life. If you

don't mind me taking it back for a
moment, most children are put into

by their parents, correct?

Mm -hmm. We have some intel here that
you didn't start pageants until much

in life. How old were you when you did
your first pageant? I was just outside

four. Just outside of four?

Mm -hmm. So I'm going to go ahead and
just cue this up for you, because we do

have a photo, and you look, I'm going to
say, no younger than 16 years old. in

this photo.

Okay. As you can see, the other children
are sort of to your hip, maybe.

No. No?

No. How old would you say you look in
that photo? Outside of four.

North of four? Sure.

You know, depending on where you live.
Well, where I live, right here in this

chair, it's looking about 16 to me. Are
you a doctor?

Am I a doctor? I mean, I apologize. You
do look like a doctor. I'm not a doctor.

I'm a reporter.

So for argument's sake, let's say you
are...

16 in four months in this photo, all
right? Okay. From what we can see, you

competed in every four and under
category in every pageant in South

you just swept.

Thank you.

So we got this video from the Hawkskill
archives from that local newspaper here,

and we can see the question and answer
portion from that first pageant.

Wow. Little baby. Thank you. My hero is
Jesus Christ.

I'm adorable.

Absolutely incredible.

Yeah. We actually obtained a newspaper
from your hometown stating that... I

would also like a piper.

Well, I can hand you this paper in a
moment. You just give me a second. It

here the reason that you are no longer
doing pageants and you were disqualified

from all pageants in Lower Texas for
vehicular manslaughter.

I thought your name was vehicular.

Vic. So I have a nickname too.

And what is...

Your nickname, because here it says your
nickname is Killer Pageant Queen.

Did my grandpa set this up? Your grandpa
did send us several footage. He said

he's very worried about you.

He said that he's concerned that you're
going to kill again.

Okay, I knew when I saw somebody in a
brown suit that this was not going to be

like a normal show.

What about a brown suit would make this
not be a normal show?

I just don't understand why I showed up
to this show and this, like, British man

is like...

Talking to me about pageants and then
not talking to me about pageants. Do you

think I'm from England? I'm so confused
right now.

I thought we were going to talk about my
wins.

Leanna Jean, have you ever been in love?
Yes.

With who? Dylan.

Anything else you want to say about
Dylan? No.

Is Dylan a boyfriend?

No.

Can't be a boyfriend if you're in jail.

What is too serious to be joked about?

Is this a riddle?

No, it's a question.

Oh, my gosh. I thought that was like,
you know, like in school where they ask

you those, like, riddles? Where did you
go to school where they're asking you

riddles? Pageant school.

A physical building or more of a
metaphorical place?

They teach you math.

What kind of math do they teach you at
pageant school?

Like trig? What's that?

Trigonometry? What's that? Geometry?
What's that? Calculus? What's that?

Algebra. Algebra 2?

POMDAS. Addition?

Multiplication. Decimal point.

Move the decimal point.

Next question.

Okay, and that's your birth language.

You know in England they speak English,
right? And I'm not from England. I am

from the United States of America. I was
born in New Jersey. It is so fun to me

when people speak other languages.

All right.

What gets you out of bed in the morning?

My legs.

Absolutely fascinating.

Last question, and I ask this to all my
guests.

What? Is the meaning of life.

To be alive.

I think sweet to the point.

Are you ready for something fun? Sure. I
was just wondering if I could give you

a couple of questions, maybe like you
would hear in a pageant. Maybe you can

give me some advice on how I would
answer them.

Okay, well, you are not going to get
into a pageant because they don't have,

think they stop at 75.

You think I'm over 75?

Maybe.

85. We're going to talk after this.

Because you're wearing a brown suit.

And, like, your ex -boyfriend is just so
crazy.

The costumers came to my house, and they
said, what do you want to wear? And I

said, I think it'd be fun if I was in a
brown suit.

It would be coming.

Fun. What kind of outfit would you put
me in? You're dressing me for a pageant

that I'm allowed to compete in in any
circumstance.

I'm sorry.

Could you cut this? I'm going to put,
just cut this out.

Okay. You're allowed to wear glasses. I
have glasses as well. Yeah, but don't

keep it. You don't want people seeing
you in waiting glasses?

No.

Oh, my God.

What?

Okay, well, if it's so bad, why don't
you give me a makeover? Not that anybody

wants that. I think everybody thinks...
No, people are clapping.

All right, you can give me a makeover.
Don't clap too much, all right?

Okay, you take this off.

Okay. And I vote.

I have a smart blouse on. So this is
from... It's on a smart blouse. The

is... Alexa, look different.

Is this on?

It's not really a smart blouse. It's
just, you know, it's a lovely blouse.

does it plug in?

It doesn't plug in. It's not electronic.

It's a nice blouse. Smart blouse. Lovely
blouse. Okay, you can start rolling

again because I took my glasses off.
Okay.

Does anybody have a knife?

How about this?

Let's just go, let's pretend like we got
all the changes. What do I look like?

Okay. We've done a montage, right? And
I'm crying stuff on, and I come out, and

it's like, oh, and then you're like, not
that one. And so then I go back in the

dressing room, and I change stuff, and
there's fun music, and maybe there's

somebody else there, and they're
dancing.

And then I come out in this. You know
what?

When I do pageant, I like to think about
what makes

me feel.

Happy and like a winner.

Right. Have you felt happy or have you
felt like you won anything before?

Yes.

I did the New York Times crossword in 37
minutes, which was a personal record of

mine. And I only cheated three times.
And I had a smile on my face for the

of the afternoon. I skipped into the
studio and everybody said, what's going

with you? And I said, nothing. Get back
to work.

I don't know. Maybe hold this because
that's not going to work.

Yeah, maybe like if you hold something
fun and then walk with it. Okay. You

know, we're holding a gold alligator,
however that makes you walk.

Not like you're scared.

Like you know you're beautiful. You were
born beautiful.

Everybody you've ever met says you're
beautiful.

I'm really feeling it. Thank you. I
appreciate your help.

Okay, so say we're sort of, like, you
know, we're, like, we're hanging out.

We're, like, we're getting food
somewhere.

Like, how would you start a conversation
with somebody, right?

Just not about, like, news or topics or
anything like that. How would you

organically start a conversation with
somebody? Would you ask me here so that

you could try and, like...

Enter a pageant?

Well, no, it seemed like we were sort of
connecting over you telling me about

pageants. So I thought it'd be fun if I
asked you a couple of pageant questions

and you maybe gave us a couple of tips
on how to answer.

Okay, would love that.

All right, let me get my... Putting the
jacket back on is definitely not

helping. Okay.

Here we go. First one, maybe we start
with something political, something news

-based. Oh, how would you bring about
world peace?

In God's world, there is only peace. And
you wake up and you choose peace or you

don't.

And that's God's plan.

Okay, so from your perspective, break
down the pieces of that answer for us. I

said peace a couple of times because you
asked about peace.

Okay, another one. What's a quality you
look for in a friend? What I look for in

a friend is beauty, loyalty, God
-fearingness.

And a little bit of sass. Okay.

So I have to ask, God comes up quite a
bit in your answers.

Are you a very religious person?

Yes. What religion, if you don't mind me
asking?

The church.

The church. I see. Which church are you
a part of? The one outside of Orlando.

There's, I'm sure, several churches
outside of Orlando. Is it a specific

denomination? I think it's called, you
know, you know.

Paul is there.

The disciple Paul?

No man named Paul.

Goes to that church?

Yeah, he runs it. Okay, a man named Paul
runs it. And so you did say this was

outside of Orlando. How far outside of
Orlando?

Just outside.

So approximately how far if I'm in a car
in Orlando?

Depending on traffic and the wind, you
know, I

don't know.

Hard to say. Best guess.

15 minutes and two hours. Two hours and
15 minutes outside of Orlando.

But it really depends.

All right. Did something completely
different work? How did we find this

work? How did we find this job?

I was born for it.

You were born for it? Mm -hmm. You left
the pageant world immediately. You said,

I need something new. Oh, the
restaurant?

Yeah, the restaurant.

Oh.

No, I wasn't born into that.

You seem to love pageants so much. Why
not just do that?

Well, and this is where it is really
going to be hard to talk about.

I'm on the older side of the juvenile
pageant contingency. Yeah, we can see

that. And you age out.

You know, so this was my last season.

And I was actually, you know, not only
aged out but disqualified because

of my stomach issues.

Tell me about these stomach issues. I
would love to know a little bit more

this. After my last pageant, it just so
happened that I turned 18, and like the

day I turned 18, I immaculately
conceived.

A child?

Yeah. Incredible. And so I was
disqualified. I understand. So you're

a baby coming on the way on this show.
Is that true?

Yeah. You seem upset. You don't seem
happy about this.

Yeah, well.

Now I work at Disney.

I don't think you work at Disney.

Can I ask you something?

I really like you. You seem so -so on
me, and that's fair. You're right. You

so beautiful.

Yes. And you look at the world in a very
interesting way.

But you seem so sad.

You see all this beauty in the world
around you. Why can't you see it within

yourself? Well, I do see it within
myself. I think I am beautiful.

More beautiful than most... So I do say
I'm corrected. I was incorrect in my

statement there. Yeah.

But I am sad.

And it's because I really loved to do
pageants.

And I am not criticizing God.

But you have one slip -up.

And you can't do pageants anymore. You
know there are pageants for parents,

correct?

There are pageants that parents are
allowed to compete in.

And what would that, like the PTA?

No, there's actual pageants for parents
to compete in.

There's what you call Mrs.

Categories or Ms.

Categories. I think that's for someone
like your age.

I see.

Now, if you wanted to do, like, a sugar
daddy situation with me, I wouldn't be

opposed. A sugar daddy situation?

Yeah. You want me to be the sugar daddy?

You seem like a rich, older man.

And I don't like the restaurant that I
work at. Thank you. It's not really in

Disney. Yeah, no, I know it's not. It's
like Disney themed, but it's like... I

want to say thank you so much for saying
that I seem rich.

And also, I can't be your sugar daddy,
but I would like to be your friend.

Or a gold digger situation. I don't
think you're allowed to tell people that

it's a gold digger situation.

But if, you know, if you're going to die
soon, then you may want to sort of

secure that before you go.

I don't know why.

But I really like you.

Okay, you know I killed those people,
right?

The people in the vehicular
manslaughter?

Please do not say that. Don't smile like
that either.

You're going to have to go to jail.

No. Yes, that's not how that works. What
do you mean that's not how that works?

Do you want to get drained after that?

Yeah, I really do, but I think you just
need to make sure that you let everybody

know that you were joking. No, we're not
going to tell anybody we're leaving.

Right, no, no, but I'm saying I think we
should let the... Let the cameras know

that you were... I'm not saying that you
killed somebody.

No, but we're being quiet. Right, but
I'm saying that's picking it up. And

mandatorily, I have to report if
somebody says that they're a murderer.

think you should let the cameras know
that you were kidding. Okay.

I don't think I do.

Why don't you just say it?

You know what? Just to me. Why don't you
say, just kidding?

Why don't you say, just kidding?

Why don't you say, just kidding?

Just kidding.

There we go.

There we go. Just kidding.

Just kidding.

Don't tell my grandpa we're getting
drinks.

Why? I don't want him to know.

God, I think you're fun.

I don't think you're fun. But I think
that's fun.

Thank you. I've never hung out with
someone your age before. I've never hung

with someone.

What? That was a guest before.

So this is new for both of us.

Yeah, don't tell anybody.

Be true to yourself unless you'd rather
be somebody else. I'm Vic Michaelis.

Good night.

We should turn off our mics. Just turn
off your mic. Okay. Who did you kill?

Oh, a family.

There's like a light wave in it. It's
like dead.

Look, his hair is sort of dead by
nature.

No. Did you get your lips removed?

Where do they start?

That feels high.

My stepdaughter will tell me the truth.

Bianca, how does that look?