It's not that deep. It is not that deep. When I was fourteen I was just constantly
in the middle of-, like, I used to tell my parents that I felt like I was having a
mid-life crisis, just a teen-life crisis.
Hi Jenna, I'm Shennai (ph 00.15). I'm also eighteen years old, so we have that much
in common. So, I just wanted to start off by obviously asking what your top things
would be on your Yes Day list.
Okay, immediately, right off the bat, there needs to be a massive blanket/pillow
fort going all throughout the house.
Ice cream has to be involved some way.
If we could go to either the beach, or an amusement park, maybe both, I don't know.
I get tired if we go to too many stops during the day.
Yes.
And then, I would live to have a giant airsoft battle with my entire family.
Wow. I have to say, ice cream was also on my list.
Windows down.
What?
Woah, woah, woah! Woah.
What?
Yeah, you have to. It's Yes Day.
What do we do?
It's your car.
Come on, Mum, you can say it. One word, two letters, N-O.
Windows down!
Yay!
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Do you have any silly stories about what you got up to on set with your co-stars?
I know that, when we were shooting, first with the twerking scene was quite the
scene in the film, especially once Edgar started twerking we had to, like, reshoot
a couple of times, just because (inaudible 01.39) in the best way possible. He's,
he's, he's very funny. Fun things that we got up to, I feel like Julian, Julian
Lerner, he plays Nando, I feel like he was constantly getting up to things just
because younger boy, lots of energy. He's just strangely talented in a lot of ways,
like, he'll be in a handstand for five minutes, so we're all timing him or-,
there was a scene, I think that was cut, where he had to do a rap, so we're, you
know, cheering him on as he was rapping and practising that.
And then also, when we were shooting the Kablooey scene with the big water
balloons, Jen got very competitive and one of the days of shooting, she was the blue
team and she showed up on set and handed out blue headbands to the crew and blue
cupcakes, trying to get everybody on her team. So, then it became, like the entire
week we were shooting that stuff, everybody was trying to get crew members
to be on their side and it became like this whole competition between us and it
was really fun.
That sounds really fun. So, Katie and Alison have a song that bonds them
together. I was wondering, in your own personal life, do you have a song that
bonds you with your family, or a song that you and the cast couldn't get out of your
head, whilst shooting?
I don't think when we were shooting there was a song that we couldn't get out of our
head, except maybe the Gummy Bear song, because I know that Everly Carganilla, she
had to do
a scene early on in the movie, singing along with the Gummy Bear song with Edgar,
so she would sing it all the time and it was constantly stuck in her head and we're
shooting so many scenes with her, so now it's stuck in our head. I think with my
personal family, I don't know if we have one song that connects us. I know with my
dad, though, anything, like any Ice Cube song ever, if he hears me playing Ice
Cube, it immediately becomes something that we do together.
That's really nice.
That's a great way to blend.
Yeah. Really, you wanna use glitter?
Yeah.
Really? She's gonna use glitter?
Do you think we should make you look as crazy as possible?
Yes.
Do you think Nando should skate in the house?
Yes.
Do you think we should get a dog?
Hang on. That's in the future. Nice try.
So, I was wondering, the kids in the film dress up their parents in these cute and
wacky outfits. I was wondering if you, yourself, have ever had a bad makeover, or
given a bad makeover to anyone else?
I think only once and it was-, it was my older sister's birthday party and she had
a lot of friends over and we took out, like, all of this drug store makeup and
everyone put on blindfolds and we just tried to do everybody's makeup and
everybody looked pretty messed up.
I can imagine. I can imagine. So, you're eighteen, now playing a fourteen year old.
I was wondering what advice you would have for your fourteen-year-old self?
It's not that deep. It is not that deep. When I was fourteen, I was just constantly
in the middle of, like, I used to tell my parents that I felt like I was having a
mid-life crisis, just a teen-life crisis, because I was all over the place, I had
incredibly low self esteem.
I thought that every awkward interaction I had, or any time I messed up, it was just
the end of the world. I put so much pressure on myself,
but I just felt like, 'Oh, I can't do anything right, and, man, I probably can't
even walk into this room right. Do I walk funny? Do I do this?' And I just, I don't
know, I was so in my head and, and
so hard on myself that I think that I prohibited myself from-, or held myself
back from a lot of experiences that I-, that I may have enjoyed.
Okay. So, thank you so much, Jenna. I've had really-, I've had a really good time
talking to you today and it's really refreshing just to see such a young,
impressive actress, like yourself. So, thank you.
I had such a nice time catching up with you. Thank you.
Thank you.