- Hi. I'm Ross Butler.
- I'm Alisha.
- And I'm Brandon Flynn.
- No last name for Alisha? Just you're Alisha?
- I'm trying to like, become (mumbles.)
Shakira, Beyoncé, Zendaya, just trying to
- P!nk.
- Alisha.
And we're with Buzzfeed and we're gonna talk
about our first times.
(upbeat music)
- First impression of Brandon and Ross?
My first impression of Brandon was
that I thought you were kind of a dick
and that we weren't really gonna get along,
but here we are.
- Now you're stuck with me.
- Now I'm stuck with you for life.
And Ross, I think we stuck to working out together first.
- Yeah. It broke the ice.
- Yeah, I think that's how we broke the ice.
And then we ended up going to a video game convention.
Good first impression.
Bad first impression.
- Alisha, you were...
I just didn't think we'd get along,
but that's all changed.
And then Ross, I was kind of intimidated by you,
'cause you're like a man's man.
And I wasn't. - I'm Ross.
I think we worked out together, too.
- Your name's Ross Butler.
- We had basketball practice.
- You had a full bar, too, at your house.
- Yeah, that was cool.
Every time I think of you,
I think of whiskey and good tequila.
Okay, Ross,
First impression? - So my first impression
of Brandon, yeah.
We got along right of that bat
because we were doing sports together
and all that.
We were friends in the show.
So, Alisha's laugh.
- Yeah.
- First season.
- I've worked on it since then.
- Woke up neighbors.
- Yeah, literally woke up neighbors.
Can I tell them the elevator story?
- Yes, please.
- So the first season, we were all
living in the same apartment complex.
We'd all hangout
and we'd leave the windows open for AC.
And Alisha's laugh, no joke,
used to be so loud.
We got into the elevator one day
and one of the neighbors was like
"Hey, did you guys hear that last night?
Like somebody was just screaming.
We were kind of worried."
- I was in the elevator.
- You were in the elevator with us.
- And we were like
"No, we didn't hear that at all, no.
No idea what you're talking about."
- And they got off the elevator.
- And honestly, that day, I was like
I need to change the way I laugh.
So I've worked on it and I'm getting better.
I don't know how you would describe it.
It was like a scream-cackle.
- I mean, I can do it.
(high-pitched laugh)
- But like, 10 times - Volume to 11.
- So much.
I don't wanna blow the mic off, but it was...
I love someone with a good laugh.
- First memory that comes to mind
from the set of "13 Reasons Why."
- I think my first scene ever
was me and Steven Silver.
- Oh, Steven.
- Pulling up in my Audi convertible
to tell Dylan to get in.
Be like "Hey, we're gonna drive you."
Season one.
And it was so hot
and they put me in a shirt, a sweater,
and a Letterman. - Oh yeah.
- Yeah.
- They always did that. - So, I had a hot
first experience.
- I was in a winter coat
the first episode I was in.
So hot.
- Yeah, cause we're shooting fall in the summer.
- Fall for summer.
The make up. - Oh my god.
- Cause I just remembered that first day.
They just put so much red under my eyes.
- Oh my god.
- That they had to end up going back
and color correct it. - Do you remember
my fake pimple?
- And you had the fake pimple.
- Oh yeah.
- As a disclaimer, in the second episode,
that was not a real pimple.
I swear.
They put a fake pimple on me
to make me seem stressed or something.
- First thing you do when you're preparing
for a new role.
- Read the script.
- Try to remember my new name.
I'll walk by the mirror and be like
"Jessica," so I can be like "what?"
Could you imagine, that's your method?
- Even if it's not in your character
- Yeah, I wanna try that.
I'm gonna try it.
- I'll just get sad.
You know?
Cause every character has something
sad to thing about,
so I'll just sad and be like
"Why am I sad?"
- First reactions - Context
- after you read the script - English
- or book of "13 Reasons Why"
- I read the book in middle school.
It really did teach me you never know
what someone is going through
and I found myself applying that
to my 14-year-old brain, at the time.
So it was very impactful, for sure.
- I hadn't read the book before,
but when I was driving up to San Fran
after the first season,
I listened to the audio book.
And it was actually the perfect length.
Right when I parked, there it is.
The book ended and it was perfect.
- That's trippy.
That's really trippy, actually.
- Yeah, it was weird.
- I just imagine it ending,
and you being like "whoa."
- I remember reading the Justin's sides,
the scenes that they gave me for his audition
and I called my agent at the time.
I was like "This is awesome!
This script is the best one we've gotten so far."
First big purchase after getting
your first major role.
- I think my car. My little mini coop.
- I don't know.
I'm not a big spender, unless it's food.
I think the biggest thing was
I just felt more comfortable spending
more money spending money on food.
- Yeah.
- Like, good food.
- Mine was a car,
but I didn't grow up that way,
so I my first paycheck I was like
"Whoa, let me save a bunch."
And then I bought a $7,000, 10-year-old Prius.
- I love that Prius.
It got us back and forth from LA
and to San Francisco
- I had it for a year and it was...
- It had like 200,000 miles on it, though, yeah?
It was good.
- We had good times in it.
- First job?
When I was a kid,
I used to live in an apartment complex
and it snowed in Virginia a lot,
so I would charge people a dollar
to wipe all the snow off their cars.
- Oh, that's good!
- Sometimes I would do it first,
and then pressure them into giving me the dollar.
- That's smart.
- Eleven years old at a gas station in the Everglades.
- Oh my god. - In Florida.
- What were you doing?
Were you pumping gas?
- My dad was managing the deli part of it,
so I would go in.
It was during one of the hurricanes.
I saw the insanity of people...
I don't know if you guys have ever
experienced that.
Gas stations become the hub.
Everyone's trying to get gas in their car.
Water.
- Re generators.
- So it's hundreds of cars lined up.
It was off of a freeway.
- Explains a lot.
- I was in the Bratz commericals.
It's really funny.
- Oh my god.
That's right.
- You've seen them, right?
- Yes.
That's much more entertaining.
- Why would you keep that from them?
- Like 13 years old.
- Nothing's changed.
- Playing with a Barbie.
I mean a Bratz.