So those scenes in this when you're swimming in the ocean
in paradise with George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
Right.
I mean, this it's pretty good. And it's it's crazy.
Couldn't be better. Yes.
No, it was shocking.
It was crazy.
Like this really happening to me. Yeah.
Like every day was kind of mind blowing.
And take a boat to work today.
Taking a boat to work.
I wish we could go to work today.
You know, go to work every day. Crazy.
It's just the wind in my hair.
Learning my truth. Singing the song.
Holding your hand. Holding your hand.
Oh, it was great.
And everything.
We're not.
We're not on a boat.
I mean, I know the magic of the movies means it wasn't sadly shot
sort of in Bali.
But please tell me they were real dolphins.
They really are.
They were really cool little puppet things where people would look like
real dolphins.
They were really amazing.
Like, I wish I could have taken it home.
But no.
That scene in particular, though, it was really fun to shoot.
I remember that day we were eating.
They had like cake... craft service and Billi and I.
Everyone's just like, like working.
And then you pan over and me
and Billy were just like eating cake in the inside of the water.
I peeked. Yeah, that was it.
Snacking. Oh, just. Yeah, I love snacking.
I was going to I mean, in the moments when you're sort of sat,
then there's actually an emotion on the cover into a scene.
So you're kind of upset with your parents about them kind of interfering with the
the wedding and stuff.
But when you're sort of in those moments,
is there still a little voice in your head sort of saying, this is I mean,
well, not Bali, but I'm in paradise with Julia Roberts?
Or is that something that comes later?
Is that something you can kind of appreciate in hindsight?
Definitely appreciate it now and forever,
I think in the moment to I think I, I think it comes and goes.
You sort of like go through waves of it.
Like you sort of forget and you sort of settle into it
and then you go, Oh, my God, oh, my God, it's George Clooney, Julia Roberts.
And then it kind of comes down again.
It depends.
But I think the the writing is is so good.
And in the script and it was just really easy to have
that dialog with the both of them and have that sort of immediate chemistry.
It was just like a breeze.
I think maybe my favorite scene is with you and George at the bar. Hmm.
Same.
I know that.
You know, you've known that man as you were born. Basically.
Is that kind of strange?
It must create such an environment of trust
when you have that kind of inbuilt relationship with something.
Yeah, it made me.
I mean, I know it's still George Clooney, though. That's right.
I think it's like I've known him for a really long time,
but still walking in to that scene and realizing,
oh, my God, I have to go toe to toe
with George Clooney at a bar.
Can I do it?
And I was so nervous at the beginning of the day,
even though we know each other well.
But of course, it's still George Clooney and.
Ah, but then we had such a good time.
That was honestly maybe my favorite scene to shoot.
Other than eating the cake in the ocean.
Honestly, that was a really good day to.
But it it was still so surreal,
but it was one of my favorite memories of my life.
That's one of the ones I'll show my kids and be like,
Look what your mother did make such a good scene.
I love that scene a lot. Yeah, he was so good.
And you're so good.
I mean, you both are so good, but you're really good.
He made me good.
But maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I feel there's something quite sad
about your character. I mean, this of, like, this. Yeah.
And I just wanted to.
Do you create a backstory
that kind of complex, maybe failed relationships in my past?
What you when you're
dealing with a comedy like this, do you just go, it's quite like I'm
going to tackle just what's on the page or do you still come at it with.
Yeah, I'm a weirdo.
I like to have a notebook for everything.
I do like a real, like old school like composition book
and like to write like things I don't know about you.
Maybe you type it on your phone cause you're, like, more.
I don't know. But it depends.
I'll write it out normally or all type in print it.
Yeah, but I think it makes it a more.
Yeah.
Whole to do that, especially with a movie like that
because you don't want it to just be this simple like joke,
joke, joke, dope, joke, character.
Like I really wanted her to have depth and she did have depth and she's,
I think really lonely and heartbreaking.
Underneath all the jokes, like a lot of us are.
And that definitely shows up in that scene.
I think the most with George at the bar, because George was like my father
in my mind in real life and for rent.
And so I can only tell you because I've interviewed
Lakeith Stanfield, Rami Malek, George Ah, John Gallagher Junior and Brie Larson.
Now you're meeting the Short Term 12 collective.
I mean, you today, I just want to shoot.
The cast... it's almost incredible what you have all gone on
to achieve since then. And it is an incredible movie.
I just want to know,
did you feel when you were on that, that you were surrounded by
really brilliant and and did it feel like something quite special?
Because, I mean, it's remarkable the success that's come from that film.
And so
you're killing.
No, you're killing more. Killing it.
No, no.
I you know, I'm so I'm really so proud of that entire cast.
And I we still keep in touch. And
I think at the time, I,
I mean, I was 14, 15 when I shot it. And,
you know, we knew that was one of those things
where we knew it was like basically like six day shoot.
It was really small and but we knew it was going to be really, really special.
And we it felt really special in the moment.
And then to have the life that it's had years
after, it's feels so crazy.
So I love that movie too.
I think it's such a convenience person.
I was at a rave when I was 15.
Yeah, yeah.
San Bernardino, different vibe.
I was raving to just it was cool.
I'm just in between takes.
But thank you so much for your time.