- Hi.
- How's it going?
- Good, how are you doing? - Good.
I'm all right.
Yes, it's an unseasonably warm day in London for September.
So, can't complain.
- Oh yeah, nice nice.
- Yeah exactly, yeah, absolutely.
Huge congrats on the show.
I've really enjoyed watching the show.
It's given me a nice, big smile on my face
and I thank you for that.
I wanted to ask you both.
Maybe, Madison, I'll start with you about,
I'm talking to you a few days after the show's come out,
which is unique in itself and it seems to be going
completely gangbusters for you guys everywhere.
I just wondered how you'd kind of taken
to the weekend the opening weekend.
If you liked the onslaught of memes
and YouTube videos and everything.
- The onslaught of memes.
- I mean, it's crazy.
This is something that we have talked
about for so long, just being able to interact
with the fans and just hoping that like everybody
would really love the show.
And, people will reach out to us.
And, tell us their stories.
And, what they related to the most in the show.
And that's why we did what we did
and why we pushed ourselves so much was for the fans.
Because we knew that they were going to be so many
people out there, who were going to watch our show
and like really just find something in to relate to.
So, I'm beyond grateful for all
that they've done for us already.
I mean, I'm, more content
than I would have ever been, you know?
And finally being able to just have a show out there
and just be able to interact with them.
And, see what they create with our show.
And the memes is just so much fun
because they're also creative.
And yeah, it's, it's been a blast.
- It's really, really fun, man.
Like when you were saying memes,
that's my definition of the weekend.
The amount of memes that are out there.
And like, they make us all laugh.
Like they are funny.
Like a standup joke, you know what I mean?
I find every time you read one you get a little good laugh.
So yeah, they're amazing man, they're absolutely nuts.
And it's crazy, it's so cool to see the people,
from all around the world that are tuning in listening in.
And they're posting videos and, it's us it might be
in a different language or something,
but like the heart of message
and everything that we talk about is still there.
And, that's gotta be the craziest thing.
It's the people like listening in and learning from it.
The messages that we receive of folks that have lost
a family member and maybe stopped doing something that used
to make them really happy in their life.
But then they're saying, the show has helped me reflect on
on what I've been doing and I want to change.
I wanna bring things back into my world.
So I think that's the most beautiful thing,
the most beautiful compliment out of all of them.
- Yeah, absolutely, and obviously,
the music goes hand in hand with that.
And I just wanted to, Madison, I wanted to talk to you first
about "Wake Up," which is a bit of a showstopper.
But encompasses kind of what the show's about.
I just wondered for you when you read that song
when you performed that song, just how important
was it for you to make sure you got that right?
- Yeah. You know, it wasn't really until the last day
in auditions for our callbacks in LA,
that I really realized, the true meme behind the song.
I had just like been paired with the guys.
They had went back, to the green room.
And I kind of realized how, the whole,
you know, it's not what you lost is what you gain.
There's going to be things that happen in your life
that, might be sad or might not be the best.
But, the best thing that you can do
is just kind of realize the gains instead of the loss.
Like the things that you got out of it.
Whether it be, you getting out of a toxic friendship
and now you no longer have to worry about that
toxicness in your life.
And now you can focus on, the other friends
that actually care about you, and are there for you.
It was really just thinking about who I wanted to hear
that message and that sign of just, getting up,
waking up and doing whatever
you wanted to do with your life.
It doesn't matter what it is as long as you do something
that you enjoy and that you love.
That can like, push yourself to be the best you.
And Kenny, he would always talk to me before,
certain scenes just to get me in a mindset,
depending on what scene it was.
And for that, he told me to think about my little sister.
And that I was talking to her in the moment
and just telling her that she can, do whatever she wants.
Doesn't matter what others say.
It's your dream, just wake up and go do it
and taste it, and achieve it.
And then, I also think about the fans
that would listen to the song and find that sign as well.
It was always, whenever I was thinking about something
that I needed that encouragement,
I would always just think about the people that I knew
were gonna probably watch the show and look for that sign.
Because, as an actress myself and just as, a teenager,
you're always looking for signs,
especially as you get older.
I mean, I was in my freshman year,
I was starting to think that theater, wasn't my thing.
And Julie was my sign.
That I could do this and that it wasn't impossible.
No matter what I looked like.
No matter what my ethnicity was or where I came from.
And that was kind of just the biggest struggle
at the time was that, I wasn't sure if I was going to
be able to achieve that dream of mine.
Because of my ethnicity.
But, when I found out about Julia and I found out
that she was a Latin-American girl
I knew that this was meant for me
and that I had to take this opportunity.
So that's just what I want people not only to take
from the song, but also take from me as well.
It's just that you can do it no matter who you are
and what people tell you.
- Yeah.
- And Charlie for you, I can see a guitar behind you.
Has this role and being in this band
scratched an itch for you and given you kind of an outlet
to perform in some ways.
- Yeah, many man, very, very much.
It's pushed me to go beyond what I've been
doing my whole life , with instruments.
Like I've always played but, I've never been so passionate
to wake up in the morning, and just run scales.
Like I've never been so excited
to literally run scales in my life, until this show.
Really music has been such a joy throughout my life.
And then now seeing other people kind of.
(clearing throat)
Sorry, I got something in my throat.
Yeah, I mean, no, I definitely,
I'm enjoying the journey and we're getting instructors
that are teaching us like vocals and guitar.
And, they're continuing to teach us and we learn so much.
And it's like theory.
Have you ever taken a theory class
and been excited about it?
- I don't think I have. - You're like, okay.
(both laughing)
- Well I guess, when you're passionate about it,
I guess then it starts changing.
I've been having fun with it, man.
- Fantastic, well, hopefully I mean,
given how successful you've been so far
I think you'll be able to go and do it again.
Guys, thank you so much for your time.
Pleasure talking to you.
- Thank you for talking to us.
- Thank you so much. - Thank you so much.
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