Hey, I'm Joshua Bassett and I play Ricky Bowen.
Hey, I'm Dara Renee and I play Kourtney Green.
Hi, I'm Larry Saperstein and I play Big Red.
Hey, I'm Olivia Rodrigo and I play Nini.
Hi, I'm Frankie Rodriguez and I play Carlos.
What's up, I'm Matt Cornet and I play EJ.
Hi, I'm Sofia Wylie and I play Gina Porter.
Hi, my name is Julia Lester, I play Ashlyn Caswell.
Hi, I'm Joe Serafini, and I play Seb Matthew-Smith.
And we're the cast of High School Musical:
The Musical: The Holiday Special.
And we're here with Buzzfeed to play a game of Who's Who.
Who's most like their on-screen character?
- Dara. - Me.
(laughs)
- Josh. - Julia.
- Olivia - Dara.
- Yeah, Dara is really good too.
Joe, you said Olivia too?
- I feel like that's a hard question
because we're all so much like our characters,
except for like Matt and Sophia.
- I would say I'm like Kourtney, I love makeup.
I love speaking out about my activism,
and I just love making sure everyone's okay.
- In my character description when I auditioned
for the role at the end
it says most likely to sleep through his alarm.
And I think it was like the second week
of filming season one.
I was like three and a half hours late to set
because none of my alarms really went off.
So I technically slept through all my alarms
and I came to set and I went up to Tim Federle, the creator.
And I was like, technically, you can't be mad
because that was in my character description
and I'm just doing some character work.
- Who's least like their on-screen character?
- Sofia. - Sofia.
- Oh yeah, actually that's true.
- [Group] Matt.
- He's just like the gushiest sweetest bubbliest man ever.
- Matt Cornet.
- I would say Matt and Sofia.
Matt is a, that just shows how good of an actor he is
when he is really mean on set
because he's probably the sweetest person I know.
You know, he's got a heart of gold.
And same with Sophia as well.
She would never do any of the catty stuff.
- The dancing though is 100% real.
That's fast.
- That is true.
Well, they actually wrote that role
to fit her a little more I believe.
They changed the role to like really
emphasize how great of a dancer that she is,
which I think is super dope.
Who's most likely to break out into Christmas carols?
- Josh.
- Joe.
(laughs)
- Yeah, yeah, you're totally right.
- I often just break out into song.
- But it's like a blessing.
- Frank. - Josephine.
- I would say Joe and Frankie, they both were just like
spiting them out, like really fast.
- That's true. - Yeah.
- Frankie. - Josh.
- Frankie does love Christmas.
Josh is always singing.
You know what I mean?
Always singing.
- Joe is like constantly singing at all times.
Oh, he should put out a Christmas album.
- Joe if you see this, put out a Christmas album.
- Who's the biggest Disney fanatic?
- Matt?
- I don't know.
- Joe? Oh Larry, you're right.
- Yeah, Larry.
- Larry is very knowledgeable about many things,
and Disney is definitely one of them.
- Larry knows like every Disney thing about everything.
- Me. (laughs)
Wait, who did you say Jules?
- I said Larry.
I feel like he has the most like, insight to Disney.
Like he has all of like the secret,
like little known facts.
- I said Frankie, because Frankie loves Disneyland so much.
- Or it could be Dara because Dara knows every Disney movie.
Like she knows all the Disney movies.
Last year for our wrapped gifts,
she had a Disney character for each of us,
like a Disney character that she thought we were most like.
- Who's most likely to have
a Christmas tree up before Thanksgiving?
- Dara. - Matt.
- Dara, you have a Christmas tree up right up now.
- It's been up since Halloween.
- Joe. - Kate.
- Frankie, because he loves Christmas decorations.
- Dara?
- Dara, you're so right.
- She literally has a Christmas tree up in her house.
- Dara is very festive.
- I decorated it in like a Halloween pattern
and then I change it for Thanksgiving,
and then I change it for Christmas,
and then I change it for Valentine's Day.
- Who's most likely to learn a TikTok dance
and perform it flawlessly?
- [Group] Sofia Wiley.
- She does it like on a daily basis
multiple times a day and flawlessly every single time.
- [Group] Sofia.
- It's not even a competition.
- She absolutely slays.
I wish I could do it like her.
I wish it could be like, ooh,
and do like all of that.
She's just so good.
I love her so much.
- At first she does TikTok dances in her sleep.
- Thank you, I appreciate it.
I did get a lot of you into TikTok though.
Like a lot of you are fueling it
but I definitely am doing dance TikToks all the time.
- Who has the best Christmas sweater collection?
- Larry. - Matt Cornet?
- I definitely don't have Christmas sweaters.
I have one Hanukkah sweater and it's this one.
- Frank. - Joe. (laughs)
- I said Dara, 'cause she's such a style icon.
- Larry. - Kate.
- Frankie.
Oh, I feel like Frankie's gotten a great style, that's why.
- Oh my God, Matt, thank you.
- You have Christmas sweaters though, Frankie?
- I do have like a stack of Christmas sweaters.
- I said Frankie, because as we know, Frankie loves to shop.
So I feel like if anybody would have a sweater collection
in general, it would be him.
- Who's most likely to be caught taking a selfie?
- [Group] Frankie.
- Sorry.
- When you look that beautiful every day,
who can blame you?
- But there was one time where we did, we did something.
He revealed that he had taken like
over a hundred selfies that day alone
because he found a bathtub he thought was cool.
- And I think it was only like noon
or one o'clock at that point.
- He literally had like 100 selfies that day.
Like he's beautiful.
- He loves a good selfie.
- I just want to double check.
Also, I want to remember what I looked like in that moment
because I always don't look like this.
- Frankie, you are iconic.
- Who's most likely to forget
to get a Christmas gift for someone really important?
- Me? I'm going to say me.
- Yeah.
- You are pretty on it with gifts and giving though.
- I am, but I'm also very on it about forgetting things.
I'm very forgetful.
- Josh. - Me.
- Josh?
(laughing)
- I was gonna say either Josh or Matt.
- I have the best intentions
when it comes to Christmas gifts,
but I always like wait 'til the last minute
and I'm not able to really get what I was hoping to get.
But this year I'm turning that around.
Yesterday, I bought a bunch of Christmas gifts for people
and I'm looking forward to changing the tide this year.
- Did you get us all AirPods?
- Um, yeah.
- Who's most likely to break character during a take?
- Josh?
- Josh. - Josh.
- Yeah, I'd have to agree.
- Yeah, Josh.
- Josh.
- Yeah, I would definitely say me.
- Who's most likely to nail a scene on the first take?
- [Group] Sofia.
- Larry. - Sofia.
- Ooh, get it.
- Kate. - Larry.
- Oh, Isn't it one-take Wiley?
- Thanks Joe.
Sometimes, but other times I'm like today is not the day.
- She like literally works harder than anybody I know.
And she's always like on her stuff.
Always has her lines memorized.
- I feel like the fact that Sofia is the youngest one
in our cast and yet has a production company
speaks for itself.
- I said Larry, 'cause I feel like
they say one-take Saperstein.
- They do you call me one-take Sappy on set.
I'm going to just put it out into the universe
and stay humble about it.
- Who's the best at giving relationship advice?
- Kate.
- Oh, Kate.
- Yes, Kate literally is literally
like the mother of our cast.
So whenever we have an issue, we always go to Kate.
- Frankie?
- Kate.
- Sofia. If you ever need relationship advice
Sofia gives great relationship advice
despite her being the youngest and never having been
in like a relationship, she is so smart.
- I'll give relationship advice
but I don't know what I'm talking about.
I don't even know what love is. (laughs)
- Who's most likely to open
their Christmas gifts before Christmas?
- [Group] Olivia.
- She would open the gift, and then she'd be like,
oh, I'm so sorry.
I opened it already.
- And then she would rewrap it.
- Matt.
- Josh. Oh, I'm like the kind of guy
that I hate waiting for things.
But I also like the surprise of like,
no, I want it to be on Christmas morning.
- [Group] Frankie.
(laughs)
- He'd like go into a room,
see the gifts, make sure no one's there,
and just be like, ah.
- He just loves presents.
- What else? I feel like Josh
just would go behind your back and open it.
- Who's most likely to pull a prank on set?
- Sofia. - Josh.
- Matt.
- [Group] Josh.
- Either Josh or Matt 100%.
- Matt.
- Yes. I think it's between like Matt and Josh.
Both of y'all are like the pranksters on set.
All of our answers are correct.
Like there's instances where all of us are correct.
- Sofia likes to hide behind things.
If she's like ahead of me and we're walking
and she likes to hop and like jump out
and scare for some reason.
- I feel like Matt and Josh, you guys together
like prank each other.
- It is a very back and forth battle between Josh and I.
And once it starts, it does not end.
- I would say a lot of y'all have pretended
that there was ghosts around me.
- Actually we do all collectively play, that is fair.
- Who's most likely to survive on a deserted island?.
- Matt. - Matt.
- Oh, Matt. That's a better choice.
I think Dara, you'd be really good at that.
- [Group] Matt.
- I feel like you would already have like everything
in like your backpack.
- I'm like, you know what, actually guys,
you should have planned ahead.
- [Group] Matt.
- Sofia.
- Oh, you have so much faith in me.
- Sofia just like, has it together.
Like she just would like, make it work.
- I think people just assume like me being from Arkansas
that I was the boy scout, but I wasn't.
- You have boy scout energy.
- I hope that's good.
- It is, it's good.
- Who's most likely to introduce you to a band/musician
that you've never heard of?
- Olivia.
- Oh, you know what, Olivia, I change my answer.
- Olivia would do that.
- Dara. - Josh.
- I agree Dara very much so, but I think Josh too,
because he's always discovering new music and new artists.
- Dara. - Josh.
- Oh.
- A vast majority of my music is country music.
And so Josh introduces me to the music
that everybody else knows, but that, I don't know.
- Finally, who's the best at doing impressions
of their other cast members?
- [Group] Frankie.
- He can roast anybody with his impressions.
- Frankie knows how to do impressions on the spot.
Not only can he do impressions of our cast
but he can do our crew.
He can do people that we don't even know.
And we know who they are when he does impressions of them.
So I would say Frankie all the way.
He makes me laugh so hard.
- I think Frankie is the answer.
- I think that we do less impressions
than we do like poking fun at each other.
- Like every person has their day
where we're just like it's Matt's day.
Everyone go his way.
Like I make Matt sound like he is from the deep South.
- Just give us a little taste, Frankie.
- Oh hey y'all, my name is Matt Cornet, and I play EJ.
- I can do the most generic Matt impression
which is basically just like yeehaw yeehaw,
I love my car, yeehaw.
Which I say to him all the time.
- Hey y'all it's Matt Cornet
and I'm going to go drive my truck.
We always pretend that Matt
has this like thick Southern accent,
and he really doesn't.
- Thank you so much, Buzzfeed.
Make sure to check out High School Musical:
The Musical: The Holiday Special on Disney Plus.
- Bye.
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