-Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, it's Elsie Fisher, the star of "Eighth Grade"!
-Hey! -Will you come talk to me?
-Yes! -Oh, my God.
-Let me bring my milkshake.
-Do teenagers still do this and come to diners?
-Maybe not most, although my theater class likes to,
after the play, go to Denny's.
-My theater classes in high school would go to Denny's
'cause it was the only place that was open 24/7.
So, if you just give me a yes or no answer
whether these things are cool or not,
I think our readers and viewers will be very interested.
-Awesome sauce. -Is Snapchat cool?
-Yes.
-You said that with some pain your face.
-It's not cool to me personally. -Okay.
-But to teens in general, the consensus is it's all right.
-Are sleepovers cool? -Yes.
For me, hella.
-Is vaping cool? -No.
No. No.
-Are hoverboards cool? -No.
I think they're used ironically.
-Are selfie sticks cool? -Practical, but not in.
-Are cheerleaders cool? -I'd --
Yeah, I-I-I think that's cool.
-Is being good at school cool? -Yes, surprisingly.
In movies for teens, you know, if you're good at school,
that makes you a "nerd," but, like,
people who are good at school at my school have the most friends.
So I think that is pretty cool. -Wow.
Shout-out to your school.
-Hell, yeah. -Are newspapers cool?
-No. I know.
-Ugh!
-I feel terrible saying it, but it's like --
I think they're not cool, but, again, are needed.
They're good.
-That's fair. -Practical.
-Are millennials cool? -Yes.
-So, a lot of parents I've spoken to
are terrified to see this movie
'cause they have kids in middle school
or have kids that will be in middle school
and they're just, like, terrified.
What do you hope parents who see this movie
will take away from it?
-I just hope they realize that, like,
you were in your kids' shoes at some point,
so you should have faith that they're gonna be okay
'cause, like, hopefully you can just relate to each other.
And for kids who watch the movie,
hopefully they can relate to the dad.
Stuff sucks, but at some point, it might suck a little less.
-I don't talk a lot of school, but if people talk to me
and stuff, they'd find out that I'm,
like, really funny and cool and talkative.
By the way, I like your shirt a lot.
It's, like, so cool. -What?
-Do you think it's harder to be a teenager now than it was,
like, when your parents were teenagers?
-Yes, probably. I mean, I obviously wasn't alive
when my parents were teenagers, so --
-That would have been weird. -Yes, it would have been.
Well, time travel. We'll see.
This time period is about messing up
and learning from your mistakes.
And, like, the Internet just kind of gives a permanence
to that, you know?
You can make a bad joke, and it can stick with you forever.
I think -- I think it is harder. -So, you wrote in "Teen Vogue"
recently about how you have dealt with some anxiety.
And I was wondering, how do you,
as someone who deals with anxiety,
deal with now being in the public eye
and being really vulnerable on camera and talking to the media?
How do you -- How do you cope with that?
-I mean, thankfully, I have people I can talk to
if I really feel like I do need to talk to someone about it.
I just try to be honest on camera and not worry about it.
And I never watch interviews 'cause I will over-think them.
So, as much as I can distance myself from it,
I think that makes it great, while being honest
when we're doing it, so --
-This is a weird question, but why are some kids mean?
-I think a lot of it has to do with insecurities.
I mean, I know that's very clich? to say, but it's true.
It's just a way of coping with your own insecurities
and just -- Maybe you just don't know
how to handle being in social situations.
And I don't think people think it's cool to be mean,
although I will say, from my experience,
a lot of boys think it's funny to --
not be mean, but be kind of like ignorant, you know, of stuff.
-Kayla gives a lot of advice in her YouTube videos.
What's the best advice she gives?
-For me personally, I think being yourself
is the best one she gives.
-The topic of today's video is being yourself.
Being yourself can be hard,
and it's like, "Aren't I always being myself?"
-You know, it's a true, deep question.
Do we know what it means to be ourselves?
Probably not.
There's just so much anxiety, especially now, about conforming
and constantly being in the public eye,
regardless of whether you're a "celebrity" or not.
Like, social media just adds a whole nother aspect of that.
So, I think if you are yourself,
you can worry about making yourself happy more
because you're not always performing.
-Why do you think that even though Kayla's
having such a terrible time in middle school
she's so actually optimistic?
In the whole movie, she keeps saying,
"It's gonna be -- Maybe it'll be better.
Maybe it'll be bad now and better later."
-I think a lot of it is probably her dad influencing her
'cause he's just a good person.
-Huh? -I said, one more week
of eight grade, right?
-Yeah. -That's crazy.
-Yeah, uh-huh.
-You know, she might have had a rough middle school,
but we're only seeing a week of her life.
We don't know what the rest of her life is.
And I just have faith that she is a genuine person
who truly believes that things can get better.
So, I don't have a specific answer.
I just think a lot of her surroundings are really good,
and she's just good.
-Finally, I have --
I have the check here for you. -Oh, okay.
-And it has a very important question inside, which is,
"Do you like 'The Washington Post'?
Yes or no?"
Aah!
That was a really -- -I know.
-That was a fake-out. -I know.
I like to be scary.
-So, despite what you've said about newspapers,
it's a yes, guys.
She does. She likes it.
-I like how the letters are different sizes.
It looks like it was cut out of a magazine.