[cheering]
[upbeat music playing]
[speaking indistinctly]
[laughing]
[kids] Whoa!
Making this movie took almost three months,
and although we were together all the time on set, we still wanted to hang out
in the evenings and even on our days off.
[yells]
I mean, we spent hours and hours and months together,
and we really became like a family.
We are best friends, and I can't believe it.
We got so close when we were filming.
Eva, Sadie and I are about the same age, so I knew we'd have a lot in common.
It was so fun to be kind of like a big sister to Justin, Kai and Carina.
They were so cute.
My castmates were like my siblings.
Eva and I were always out eating and trying new foods.
Sadie and I were always snuggling.
Justin and were always getting in trouble together.
[in ASL] On my first day of filming,
I spotted a chair with "Zuzu" printed on it.
I realized that for Deaf actors,
it's rare to get their own chair.
I'm incredibly honored and grateful.
So, one day at lunch, Shiloh and I had a super deep conversation about bread.
I said whole-wheat bread was healthier for you.
She said white bread was healthier for you.
Wolfgang must've heard about it somehow.
He brought to set one loaf of wheat bread and one loaf of white bread.
So, the next morning, I walked into my trailer
and I found two loaves of bread on my desk with a note that proved that I was right.
But he bought the wrong type of bread, so we still don't know.
Sorry, Shiloh, but I was right.
I am probably still right. Just saying.
[peppy piano music playing]
There was a lot of dancing on and off camera.
Twenty-four hours dancing. It was so fun.
We were dancing our last dance on stage.
I got an opportunity to do the moonwalk
and the worm.
I'm actually in love with my outfit, and I can't believe I got to wear it.
[Allan] I got to do so much stunts.
I got to go upside down.
Well, Johanna and I stayed in the same apartment building,
so we would go downstairs and practice some of the dances together.
We would always help each other out, like with the dance moves
or with the poses, and just, honestly, make us all laugh.
And the funniest thing was when Wolfgang was dancing.
Wolfgang taught me how to do the:
Chicken noodle soup, chicken noodle soup
With a soda on the side I let it rain, I clear it out
He would always spend so much time with me and the other kids.
He would always just teach us these random things.
But it was so much fun.
It was so fun.
One of my favorite days that we spent together off set was
on one Saturday that we had the day off, and Wolfgang planned a picnic.
We all brought, like, desserts and food and snacks.
And we played games.
And there was actually music playing at the park,
so we listened to, like, this live concert and we danced.
And there was also a little section that had farm animals.
Somebody was carrying Kai and we had all the girls.
And we picked flowers and put them in our hair, and it was beautiful.
We hung out a lot off set.
And we'd always go, like, to the Toronto Islands,
or parks or ferries. And it was like the girls' squad, on set and off set.
So, when I first met all the girls,
it was like a wall of positive,
beautiful, young energy at my face.
It was really special. Like, at all times I had
one girl on one arm and one on the other and another one on my lap.
Sofia is an unbelievable leading lady.
Not only just in talent, which is obvious,
but in her grace and her poise.
On set, she taught me a lot.
Like, she taught me to be present for your other actors.
[Champlin] She's just pretty much one of the most beautiful hearts I've ever met.
At first, I thought I was suspicious of it.
I was like, "Mm, I don't think anybody's that nice."
She is.
I will cherish every single moment that we shared, both on and off the set.
They made me smile and they made me laugh hysterically.
Especially Jojo. Jojo just made us crack up.
There's a scene where, um... [laughs]
So, her character wears glasses,
and April decides to tape the glasses to Jojo's face.
So, all of the outtakes from that day of me just being like:
Cut. Cut.
After every cut, she was like, "Oh, my gosh. Are you okay?"
That was hilarious.
Don't tell her I said that though.
[upbeat music playing]
When we were filming the barn scene, there was a piano,
and Sofia and the kids were singing "Bohemian Rhapsody"
while I was playing the piano part.
And she's this big and has the tiniest fingers.
And yet, in between takes, we would all gather around the piano
and little Kai would play for us.
It was-- It was just precious.
My favorite story from set was probably the day of the rain dance scene,
when we were all soaked and then we'd dry off a little and go back at it again.
And it was just so fun.
My favorite funny moment was
at the merry-go-round.
It was spinning as I jumped on it, but accidentally fell down.
My body was spinning, splattering mud all over my body.
Everyone ran to me, "Are you okay?"
I was like, "This is the best time of my life!"
There were multiple times when I slipped and fell on my bum,
like bam!
One time, people thought that I actually got hurt.
But I was just on the floor, laughing my butt off. [chuckles]
I think it was the day that we shot our finale number
of the whole movie at the very, very end of the film.
And, coincidentally, it also happened to be the last day of filming
for a lot of the cast,
so it was, like, extra emotional because of that.
And I feel like it's everyone's dream to have a good dance party in the streets.
And we got to do that.
We were dancing on the street.
We were all together, and we were dancing our hearts out.
[Carson] It felt like a celebration of what we had done.
It was so much fun.
[shouting indistinctly]
It was just absolutely amazing and so fun.
I can't believe I got to work on this film.
I feel like the luckiest girl alive.
[all shouting indistinctly]