- Hi I'm Vanessa Marano.
- And I'm Laura Marano.
We're here at Buzzfeed.
- And we're gonna be talking about our firsts.
- First incorrect rumor you read about yourself.
- I mean I feel like mine is probably like dating a co-star,
'cause that's literally never happened.
- The first time I saw how much money I apparently make,
on the internet. - Oh that's so crazy.
Is so wrong.
So wrong.
I wish it was true.
- But that is for everybody.
Like I've worked with a lot of actors
and every single time like someone
inevitably Googles somebody and it's like wow,
I didn't realize, like what do you invest your money in?
Every single one's like what are you talking about?
That is not even remotely close to accurate.
Laura, what is your first memory that comes to mind
on the set of Austin and Ally?
- When we were testing, 'cause I didn't meet Caleb then
but I met Ross, and well I'd known Raini for years.
Just walking in, and everyone's talking to each other,
there's a lot of people, and Ross is just there
by himself on his guitar.
If that's not a description of Ross Lynch,
I don't know what is.
Vanessa, first memory that comes to mind
of the first day on set of Switched At Birth?
- One of the first scenes, but I don't know if this
was the first day, it might have been the second day,
was us shooting in front of the Kennish house
and us meeting Daphne and Regina and like
the families that were switched all meeting
each other and my character being very mean.
- Last Bay.
- And Katie taught us all different words
in sign language that day, also there was like
a bathroom broke down in the middle of the house,
so that was a whole moment.
The other thing I remember like specifically
of like a first on Switched was we had to do
a lot of wardrobe fittings for the pilot.
And Katie and I had kind of met at the test
but we didn't really, 'cause she was cast already
and they just basically had her in the room
to check how tall all the other girls were.
- Totally, classic.
- But the first time we like actually
interacted with each other was we had like
a really last minute fitting right before shooting,
'cause they couldn't decide on outfits.
And so we were basically sharing a fitting
and just like changing and getting naked
in front of each other and going back and forth
and back and forth.
And then they ordered us food,
but they wanted us to stay in the outfits
'cause the producers were gonna come down and approve it,
so they wrapped us in plastic wrap.
And I have a picture of me and Katie eating Chinese food
on the floor of the fitting room
literally wrapped in plastic.
- That's pretty special.
That's pretty awesome.
- There you go.
- First kiss.
- Mine was on camera.
- Adorable.
- It was.
- It was for...
- I did an independent film called Easy
and I was 10 years old, and the characters like
have to have their first kiss so--
- But say what you did in the scene.
- Oh I'm getting there.
(laughing)
So the characters have their first kiss,
and it's supposed to be cute and sweet
and like it's a flashback to the older girl
having her first kiss.
And it's supposed to take place in the 80s,
and so the way that she decides to kiss the boy
is they were watching Madonna's Like A Virgin video
and so my character leaves while he's watching the video,
goes and gets a blonde wig, and dresses up like Madonna
and starts singing Like A Virgin to seduce him
into a first kiss.
Also, the boy did not wanna kiss me.
I can say that now because I know him now
and we're very friendly, but he was not into it.
He was like this seems like a weird thing,
this is gross, kissing is weird.
- And then the scene didn't make it.
- Oh yeah and they cut the scene, that's right,
I forgot about that.
I'm not in that movie.
- You're not in that movie.
My first kiss was at a dance, and...
- So it was normal.
- So it was, yeah, as normal as first kisses can be.
And I just remember I could tell,
I was such a jerk, I could tell he was really nervous,
and I like took a lot of comfort in that.
I was like heh-heh.
I was like not gonna do it on the dance floor,
'cause I'm like that, I am not doing.
- So basic.
So we went like upstairs to the venue
and we kissed and then I was like,
"You gotta give me more than that."
- Ooh!
Oh!
- And then we kissed again and we missed
each other's mouths.
And then we kissed again and it was good.
So it was third time's a charm for our first kiss.
- First embarrassing moment on set.
Ooh I know this one.
I was working on show called The Comeback,
and I was 13 years old,
so obviously embarrassed all the time.
And my character was like a fashionista,
so I was always in these like really crazy outfits.
And this one outfit was like a flowy skirt
that we used as a dress, so it was like tied up
like a strapless dress but it was a skirt,
and I had to walk in front of the camera
and like be on my phone like oh I'm so bored
and then walk past the camera,
that's what the shot was.
As I did that, it fell, like legitimately.
And like I was wearing bras at this time,
so it wasn't like insane, but it was also just like down...
And that was very, very uncomfortable.
That scene got cut too.
- Weird. (Vanessa laughing)
Okay I'm embarrassed when I think about it now,
but I don't think I was embarrassed in the moment.
It's a J. C. Penney commercial and I was five.
- Oh yeah.
- I was crazy, like, crazy.
I mean I was five, so I guess it's expected,
but it was like I kept calling the director my dad.
My dad was there on set with me.
And the guy who was playing my brother
in this J. C. Penney commercial, I was like,
he was older than me, and I was like beating him up.
Like I was just like slapping him, I was kicking him,
I was just like really just vivacious, I would say.
- Do you cringe thinking about when we
were in Finding Nemo together,
and you started telling everybody about
your imaginary friend Christina who died by snakebite?
But you didn't let anyone know that she was imaginary.
- Um, yeah, I would...
I had an imaginary friend named Christina.
And she died with her family.
They were hiking in the mountains
and they were eaten by a king cobra.
You know, it happens, every once in a while.
- All right, I'm just taking this,
we're gonna do another one.
(laughing)
- Yeah, why don't you take that.
- Ooh, first celebrity you ever met.
'Cause like we met people who were like celebrities
but we were so young.
Like Anthony LaPaglia, we were like,
that's just that guy.
- Anthony, so we worked with him on Without A Trace,
which is the first project we ever did together.
And it was the first project we ever did theatrically.
I had no idea who he was, but I knew that
my parents were really excited about him,
so then that made me really excited.
So I like got really starstruck,
not knowing really who he was, being six,
and being like oh my god, oh my god,
like it's Anthony LaPaglia, oh my god.
And by the way, I don't think we pronounce
his name correctly.
- Isn't it LaPaglia?
- No it's Italian.
It's like LaPaglia.
Anyway, so I was like super starstruck,
but I just remember being like,
I'm so excited to meet you.
Who's yours?
- Probably Gilmore Girls,
'cause I was such a big fan of that show.
Like that was probably the first time
that I was like freaking out about
oh wow this is Lorelai, this is Luke, this is Rory.
This is real.
This is Taylor Doose's market.
- First time you were recognized in public.
- Probably from Gilmore Girls.
That would make the most sense.
- The first time that comes to my memory
is from doing 5th Grader,
Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
- Oh yeah.
- And I remember I would get recognized a lot
and I was like ooh, that's cool.
A few years later I got recognized
from being the girl in Modern Family,
to which I replied I'm not her.
But thank you for enjoying my work.
- I also have been recognized for doing
a great job on Pretty Little Liars.
- Yeah.
- Don't know, - Great work.
who on Pretty Little Liars, but...
- We all know who.
First thing you do, so current,
when you have time off.
- Oh, I sleep.
- Yeah I probably sleep too, to be honest.
- I sleep and watch The Real Housewives.
- I don't do that, I sleep and--
- You're missing out.
- Watch either an animated movie, a rom-com,
or a Christopher Nolan film,
which I think are basically all in the same genre.
- As Real Housewives, absolutely.
- As Real Housewives, exactly.
- First piece of advice you'd give someone
who's trying to become an actor or singer.
What if I gave the advice to the singer?
- I think you should. (laughing)
- Take an acting class, do a play,
be doing the thing that you're doing,
even if you're not necessarily making money at it.
Like just be acting, be writing, be whatever it is
that you wanna do creatively,
and eventually you will make money off of that.
- You just wanna be honing that craft
and working and doing it.
- And being around people who are friends
who you value them creatively in what they do too.
- First big red carpet event.
- Ooh, I think it was the Teen Choice Awards.
- Yeah.
- It was probably the Teen Choice Awards.
- It was definitely the Teen Choice Awards.
- And it was not a year that either one of us
was nominated, I don't think.
- No.
First celebrity friend you made.
- Laura Marano.
- Vanessa Marano.
(laughing)
I would say for you, Meaghan?
- Yeah, I guess Meaghan would be the first...
That's so crazy to me, like my friend Meaghan Martin,
who was in Camp Rock--
- We just never worked with kids, I think.
- Well I did, I mean I didn't meet Meaghan
because we worked together,
so that's why this is a weird moment.
I met Meaghan because I knew her boyfriend at the time
and he worked with me.
- I would weirdly say Raini Rodriguez
because I usually didn't work with kids,
but the one time I did was for a show called Huff,
and she was one of the like three kids
that were working.
And I just remember like thinking she was the coolest
right off the bat.
She was so funny, she was so sweet.
Her mom was so sweet.
I think Rico was there too.
And obviously it was like way before Modern Family.
And I don't even know if he was like acting yet.
And then I worked with her years later
on Austin and Ally, and it was awesome.
She was like, I was like so cool.
- First job.
Well I said it, it was a J. C. Penney commercial
that I'm not proud of.
- My first union job was a Toyota Sienna commercial,
and it only aired on Telemundo.
- Did you have to speak Spanish for that or?
- No I had to speak Spanish for a Mercedes Benz commercial.
And I had to have a dog come up and lick my ear,
and to do that they put peanut butter behind your ear.
And it's not an awesome experience.
- Especially when you're wearing a blonde wig.
(laughing)
- And dancing around to...
- Like A Virgin.
And scene.
(laughing)
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