so obviously cameron was not very into
social media in any form in the movie
but what about mr tanner buchanan
himself what about you and your tick
tock ventures possibly
i mean i don't know you taught me today
a tick-tock dance the the this one thing
yeah but otherwise on set we didn't we
didn't really uh i i didn't learn any
dances from i watched you do them a lot
and then realized how much i i was not
if i was not gonna be able to learn them
that fast
she saw that was an iconic 90s teen
movie what are teen movies that you grew
up on and you love well as you know i'm
a big rom-com romantic romantic movie
aficionado uh
person she's all that was a big one for
me uh 10 things i hate about you was a
big one for me you know clueless and
then obviously one of my all-time
favorites a walk to remember i did pull
inspiration um from some of those movies
for this so i watched she's all that a
lot
and tried to make sure that i i kind of
got the idea of you know laney and uh
trying to make sure that everyone
could almost like their subconscious
would be like this seems familiar and
i'm very happy with it and i actually
too i i drew some inspiration i i had
talks with our director mark waters and
actually with with our one of our
producers jennifer jennifer gibgot about
trying to incorporate a little bit of
heath ledger from 10 things i hate about
you because that the characters it's
kind of a mix between the two making
sure that you know that that harshness
and that kind of eye i don't want to say
bad boy kind of thing but that outcast
sort of sort of feeling was there from
heath ledger did he's all that is it one
of those roles that you dreamt about you
know as a kid and did it live up to the
expectation that it was to be able to
play that you know that that role that
everybody can kind of relate to and that
in that movie that everybody really
enjoys and has fun watching yeah i mean
it lived up to every expectation to be
honest just the set in general and being
on a production yeah it lived up to
everything if not exceeded it i feel
like as a kid especially like me growing
up i've always loved rom-coms loved like
watching romance on on film and and even
just like no matter how cheesy it was i
feel like that's what makes it better
because i'm like oh i just love like the
the essence and the innocence that comes
with like a romantic comedy is like so
sweet and like the love is just so
undeniable i just love that feeling of
like watching something like that i'm a
hopeless romantic in general so watching
something like that just makes me feel
good um so yeah i mean it was a dream
come true to be able to kind of do that
after you know watching all of that
growing up and
wanting to be a part of that what about
you well i was gonna say i i agree with
that because for me i was the same way
for me that's what i grew up with we had
everything in that movie with with the
makeover you know i i always wanted to
be kind of like the outcast kind of
person that gets to go through this big
change i mean we all even got to be part
of you know a dressing room montage
so like who doesn't who doesn't dream
about doing that montage you get to see
them you know trying on different
clothes and doing all kinds of stuff and
everybody's like i want to do that i
want to have that moment we gotta have
that moment yeah even the karaoke like
that moment of like doing something fun
like that pool parties parties that was
so fun to film it lived up to every
expectation given that this is like your
first big acting debut
uh is there a piece of advice that you
really
kind of connected to that maybe i gave
you i feel like we felt really
comfortable and confident and like i
definitely like more like watched and
learned in a way like i i feel like that
was like the best way for me to
understand like you and like also just
like get tips from you in a way like by
watching and observing um and one thing
i remember i actually pointed it out to
you you like to like mark your stuff in
colors for like emotions and like that
was something that i learned from you
that was like just like being
intentional you know like i think being
intentional with decisions i make as
my character or like even every line and
he's all that your character paget is a
social media influencer is there
anything that you pooled from your real
life that you kind of put into
paget yeah for sure i definitely pulled
a lot of experiences that i've had maybe
with myself and figuring myself out
padgett kind of like figures a lot about
herself out in the time of the film and
um really gets to know herself and the
people around her a little bit better
and sometimes people aren't meant to be
in your life and i think she kind of
realizes that too you know she had
friends that she thought were her
friends and ended up just not being the
best friends that are supposed to be in
her life and i've drawn that from
experiences i've had just by you know
meeting people um and then connecting
with some and not connecting with others
and realizing that life continues and
moves on and you adjust and you become a
person um that you're meant to be as you
as you make decisions and go through
things and i think that's kind of what i
drew for myself is that you know you've
gotta have bad times and you've gotta go
through the bad sometimes to get to the
good so how much of cameron did you
relate to in real life
so i mean i i did but i didn't i went
through the phase of long hair and i
actually truly there's a joke in it
where cameron wears the same like three
flannels or something i went through
that stage for about two years where i
actually had two flannels i would kind
of switch
um never washed them uh which was not
not nice but you know i had this stage
where i was always kind of an outcast
doing different things and everybody
else as i was growing up that's that's
almost it because i try to
separate
a character from myself but it's
interesting because you have to find
that balance of putting yourself into it
how much of your cobra kai training came
into play
when doing the fight scene for he's all
that came in handy very much because i
remember we were talking about the fight
with our stunt coordinator wade and we
kind of came up with something and i
pretty much memorized it in about 15-20
minutes oh my gosh and uh i know because
it
compared to what i usually do it was it
was much easier yeah
i'm sure it was a piece of cake
so it didn't take me very long is there
a moment that was your favorite memory
on set or was there a scene in
particular that was exciting to film i
feel like i've said this a lot but it's
all the it's all the horse
all anything dealing with the horses
that was that was my jam i mean our job
was to say lions and ride around on
horses i mean how much better could it
get was there a was there a favorite
scene of yours that you is rememberable
or was your favorite shooting the movie
yeah so i'm gonna have to say when i did
my um monologue honestly that one's one
that i kind of have grazed over speaking
about favorite scenes to film um it
wasn't like the most like adventurous
which is what i've been kind of saying
when people ask um i've been like horses
or
gatsby or the dance but my monologue for
the prom was probably my favorite thing
to really get into and do
i actually remember that one of the
girls like one of the background girls
or extras she was in the audience like
whenever we had everyone kind of there
and when i did my monologue for the
first time she started crying
in the audience and i was like
and she like came up to me after and was
like that was really real like it was so
good and like you you could tell like
you meant those words and i was like wow
thank you like that was really special
to me to hear that like you know i could
actually like touch someone in that way
even on set was acting always a goal for
you growing up and if you had a dream
role
what would that be yeah so acting was
always a goal for me being a performer
and an entertainer was like always just
something that my soul and like heart
and mind craved always i love performing
i love putting on a show i love telling
a story and you get to do so much of
that in acting and you know everything
else i get to do and like i said i was
very determined to make it happen and i
really wanted to do this no matter what
it took to get here i did get very
fortunate and very blessed that in the
way that it came and happened for me but
i knew i was gonna make it happen no
matter what but it was really cool to
kind of experience it in a different way
and i got brought into it in a crazy way
as far as you know if i'm going to be in
anything
next i
you know really hope so that's the goal
i really want to continue um i think
this is just the beginning and i'm going
to continue to work really hard and
hopefully have really amazing roles i
never really want to say like a dream
role because i feel like any role
is a dream role you know to get a part
that you really enjoy so maybe my dream
role is a script that i really love like
i end up falling in love with the script
right like the character so i don't know
what that may be but
what is the next role that you want to
play then how about that maybe something
that gives a little bit more challenge
in a way like um i think this role was
was also challenging in different ways
but i think it was a little bit more
relatable for me so maybe something
that's kind of like a little left or a
little right you know of of what i'm
used to or what i did in this movie um
so something maybe with a little bit
more emotion or like a little bit i
would love to do a horror movie that
would be really fun i have a great
screen for that um but i would also like
love to continue around like i love
rom-com obviously drama is really cool
for me like sci-fi even i don't know i
feel like um just anything that
challenges me even more you know