- Hi, I'm Elle Fanning.
- And I'm Justice Smith
- And we're the cast
of "All the Bright Places" - "All the Bright Places"
(Elle and Justice laughs)
And we're gonna
be doing our firsts, yes. - Firsts.
- First big red carpet event.
- I wore, well I remember
this but I was young.
It was honestly probably for like.
Was Tim Allen did he play Santa Claus?
- Yes.
- Yeah, Tim Allen Santa Claus movie.
I think it was that I could be wrong.
- I love that movie.
- I wore matching, which my mom would
do this, like match my sister
and I had overalls, I had tea cup patches on me.
Yeah.
- Oh, oh my gosh.
- Oh we're not matching there
- Oh my gosh,
but you guys have a similar-- - Yeah, there's one
we went to a, my sister's Dr. Seuss premiere
- The thumbs up in this - and we were matching.
- is so precious.
- (Elle laughs)
- Mine was a MTV Movie Awards.
- What did you wear?
- I wore a suit that I found
in the back of my closet
and some dirty tennis shoes.
It is a bat, it's on the internet.
- I know it is.
(Elle laughs) - It is disgraceful.
Do not pull that up.
First incorrect rumor you read about yourself.
- Probably, I died (laughs)
(Justice laughs)
- Sometimes they do that.
- Really? - Yes.
- They kill you off? - Yes, it's weird.
- I don't even know people,
if people even say anything about me.
- Where are you?
- No, what am I talking about everyone
thinks I'm Will Smith's son - (Elle laughs)
- Everyone, so much so that I had
to put it in my Twitter bio.
- That is, wait but what a long-lost son or like Jaden?
- No, there was like a video essay
of some guy I think it was that.
Who like was like,
- This is an amazing one!
- "He's only acting because of nepotism."
Something like this and I was like what?
That's not my dad, at all.
I was in a car once
and the driver was like I drove your dad once
and I was like my dad, what?
And he's like, "He's a nice guy."
And I'm like, "Yeah he is a nice guy,
"I don't know how you know him."
And then I realized.
And he's like, "Your brother is really cool, too."
And I was like he thinks--
And so I didn't have the heart to tell 'em no
I just like, "Yeah he's a good guy, he's a great actor."
(Elle and Justice laughs)
- You went along with it?
- Yeah. - Oh my god.
- 'Cause I felt bad.
What is your first memory
from the set of "Maleficent"?
- Oh, okay.
Definitely meeting Angelina Jolie.
We were at the studios
in London at Pinewood Studios
and I turned a corner
and she had turned a corner
and I didn't know
that she was going to be around the corner.
And I was with my mom,
and there she was.
I just like had this weird reaction.
I just went up and ran and hugged her.
How crazy of me
to do that?
- Was she welcoming of that, though?
- Yes, I think she was a bit like, "Whoa!"
like she wasn't expecting that.
I guess I was so nervous it just overcame me.
I was like, "Hey!"
I was just too much, you know?
- I love that, though.
- First memory from the set of "Jurassic World".
I had just finished doing a play in New York
and we had a wrap party and we all celebrated
in the ways that people celebrate
and so I woke up the next day
and I had to get on the flight
and I missed my flight
because of the residual celebration.
- Right.
- And then I get on the plane.
I fly to London, I land
I'm still like where am I
and then I walk a room-- - Hungover
He's hungover.
- (laughs) I'm hungover and I walk
in to the read-through where I meet Chris Pratt
and Bryce Dallas Howard
and the director
and the producers and everybody at like,
literally and I was like what's happening?
And they're like, "You're gonna act right now."
And I'm like "What?"
and that was it, that was my introduction to everybody.
- Did you good?
- I think so I mean, I don't really remember.
- And he was fired.
- And I was fired. - (Elle laughs)
First kiss.
- Oh. - Aw.
- Do you wanna go first, or?
- Sure, I'll go first. - Okay.
I was acting from a young age so I have two
but I don't count first kiss on screen.
I was trying to hide that it
was my first kiss
in this movie, was called "Ginger and Rosa".
I was 13 and I'd never kissed anybody
and in this scene I had to kiss someone
and I was trying to be like,
"Oh yeah I got kissed people before."
(Justice laughs)
- Trying to hide it but director knew.
She's like, "You have not."
And so she actually
and she told me years later that that take
she used the very first take. - The very first take.
so I have it on screen forever, thanks.
My first kiss in real life was at school.
It was planned. - An arranged?
- It was, we've both had free period
and it was also school was about to be out for the summer.
- Oh, oh that's fun.
- So we planned it.
and then afterwards I heard that
it was a bet and I got really mad
but there was okay and then we ended up dating.
- And that (laughs) my story.
- (laughs) Yeah, so much.
- It's so much to unpack there.
- And then I looked over
and the whole like English class was cheering me on.
Very, very bizarre,
actually thinking about it. - Everyone was so invested
in your first kiss?
- Very invested in my first kiss.
- It was a communal kiss. - Yes.
You were probably much younger,
I was old. - No, I was old, too.
- Okay. - My first kiss was
in a play, I was 15.
And it was with Emily something something something.
- Yikes.
- It was in a rehearsal-- - I don't remember her name.
- I don't remember her name.
And then I had my real first kiss
a week after that with Lauren.
- And we were on my couch in my bedroom
and she had braces.
I remember I really liked braces after that.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
- That's your fetish.
- Yeah, not anymore.
I don't like braces anymore. - (Elle laughs)
- First car.
- My first car and I still have this car,
it was my mom's Honda Accord, it's silver.
- I don't have a car.
I don't drive, I have my driver's license,
I passed the test, I just wanted
to win I'm like I want to pass the test.
- And then I didn't-- - It was a competitive--
- That's very much my personality.
"All right, I'm good." (Justice laughs)
- First thing you do when you're preparing for a new role.
- Sometimes I like to make a playlist
and just put it with songs that remind me
of the character or what I think
that the character would like
but it really depends,
my process different, process.
Process is different. - Process.
(Elle laughs)
You know sometimes you actually have
to learn a skill for a role. - Yes, yes.
- Which interesting like I had
to learn to ice skate for somewhere when I was young.
So then for three months I would go and ice skate.
Isn't as you really have to
learn like something which is really exciting
that you get to do that
or learn like you know do an English accent
or speak Polish, I had to speak Polish in something.
- Whoa that's kinda cool. - Yeah, kinda.
- But I had to learn a skill for this movie.
I to learn how to dive (laughs).
- Oh yeah, terrible diver.
- And I was so bad at diving.
- But you actually didn't learn
because you never did it.
- No, I never did it.
I did one good dive on my own
and I was like I got it
and then on set I could not dive.
I look like a frog.
- First job.
- "I am Sam", I play my sister, younger.
- My first job was at Knott's Berry Farm.
- You have a cool first job, that's like --
- I took tickets at the front, yeah.
But I did it for one summer then I got a job,
like an acting job
and I call my boss I was like, "I quit."
And then I lost the acting job.
- No! - (laughs) I lost both jobs.
- First reaction after you read the script
or book of "All the Bright Places".
- I mean I loved it.
I just thought it was great.
I thought it was honest
to what teenagers are going through around that time.
- Yeah I read the book first, too.
- You read it a long time ago, yeah.
- Yeah I read it when I was 14
and it was kind of, I think it was honestly before
the book was out
because Jennifer had this dream
of the book possibly one day becoming a movie
and the process for this film
has been like a lot of years in,
in the making.
- First piece of advice you'd give someone
who's trying to become an actor.
- I was actually say take every opportunity,
no matter how small the role.
Like a background actor.
Just every little opportunity,
take those, you know?
And learn from them
and also try to do your best
'cause you never know who's watching
- Yeah you had to be resilient
You have to be okay with rejection.
- Yeah, There's a lot of people I know like growing up,
a lot of people, great actors who quit
because they couldn't handle the stress of the rejection.
I think it's the people who push through that,
that kind of make it.
Whatever that means.
- First big role you nearly landed
but it went to someone else.
We get everything.
(Elle and Justice laughs)
We've never. - I've never.
I've gotten everything.
- On "Friends" I tried out to be Phoebe's kids when--
- Cole Sprouse?
Wait weren't they?
- No, no, those were Ross' kids.
- Oh. (laughs)
- Oh, no, Phoebe has triplets
and then later and there's one's named Chandler.
The girl is named Chandler. - Oh really?
- And I tried out to be Chandler
and I didn't get the part.
I was really young, really young
but I boycotted the show
and then later my sister got--
Boycotted the show.
- You made an online petition?
My sister got a part
in the very last season of "Friends".
My family had a viewing part,
it was a really big deal in my house
and then I would refuse to watch it. (laughs)
- (laughs) I love that.
- 'Cause they didn't give me a part.
I could've been Chandler, my God.
- A lot of stuff that I like really want
- You get.
- No (laughs).
- If I don't get it, it never,
it kind of falls.
- They fail, they fail (laughs).
- They fail (laughs).
- And then you're glad (laughs).
- And then I'm happy (laughs).
(Elle and Justice laughing)
- Unbelievable.
- It's kinda messed up.
- Yeah, 'cause you're there with a voodoo doll.
- Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(upbeat music)