- I never consider what I never have to consider.
I never considered answering this question before.
I don't quite know what to do,
'cause I've, haven't given it any thought.
Hi, I'm Aiden Gallagher.
I'm here with Seventeen and this is 17 Questions.
People would be surprised to learn
that I play four different instruments
and that I'm an UN ambassador.
Not everybody knows.
Something I will never regret.
I will never regret
sharing environmental messaging on social media.
A lot of times, I'm just reposting stuff
from various environmental accounts, primarily UN EP.
That's a good account to check out
if you're interested in that.
Aside from that, who's to say?
It's a long life.
I always am able to pick up a guitar
or sit down at a piano or something
and make myself happy for about an hour.
That's pretty nice.
I never, I never consider what I never have to consider.
I never considered answering this question before.
I don't quite know what to do
'cause I've, haven't given it any thought.
I've never encountered this before.
Yeah, I got starstruck upon meeting Gerard in season one.
He was just in a beanie, super friendly
and it was really cool,
'cause I was a fan of his band and his comics.
I mean, eventually you learn so much about the person
that you just see the person,
but yeah, every once in a while,
there's moments where, like, "Oh, that's Gerard Way.
"He was in that band that I love."
Oh, what do I love about YouTube?
There's a lot that you can do on it.
For my generation, it's kind of like our online library.
You can basically learn anything on there.
I think the livestream portion of YouTube
is the most enjoyable for me
because it's incredibly free form,
and oftentimes I'm doing,
I'm streaming for an hour and a half.
It's an easier way to get in touch with people
because they're right there in a comment section,
which is live.
There's nothing quite like a live stream.
You can check out my YouTube page.
It is Aiden R Gallagher, just on YouTube.
You'll find it.
When people look at social media,
there's this sort of psychological expectation
that they think what they're seeing is reality,
and then there's this connection to yourself
where you think, "Oh man, I wish my life was like that",
and people can sometimes get bummed out.
So if you could remove whatever it is
that makes people think that that's what life is
and then makes them get depressed,
social media would be a great thing.
I still like it, it just has flaws.
Favorite thing about it.
I like, it's kind of multifaceted,
but the main thing that is very enjoyable for me
on a day to day basis is to step outside of myself.
The way I approach it, at least,
it's rewiring your brain into a different person,
and so I completely tune out the cameras
and everything that isn't on the set or in the scene,
and so your brain actually thinks
you're stepping into a different universe
and you're just in it with the other person.
That's pretty incredible.
It's fun to channel Five.
If I could live anywhere, where would I live?
I'd probably live in Seattle.
I was just there for two weeks
and we're moving there and it's lovely.
Either Seattle or New York, probably.
What music do I have on repeat?
Mostly demos of stuff that I've made, really.
There's no way to really test it
when you're in the studio environment.
There's the headphones and, that you work on,
and so you're just working away on this thing,
trying to get it to work.
You lose objectivity after a couple hours
and your ears need a break,
and so it's nice to sort of be on a walk or something
and put in the Air Pods and listen back to a mix and go,
"I need to switch out the snare drum on that"
or "We should use a different synth in that part".
The hardest part about being an actor
is, it's gonna sound strange but it's very true,
at least in my case.
Every once in a while, for no reason at all,
the scene will throw you like you're riding a bull.
You don't know why, but certain lines of dialogue
are just hard that day,
and you don't know how to make something work.
You might think, like,
oh it's a crying scene that gets harder,
it's this type of scene that you have trouble with.
It's just random scenes every once in a while.
It's like a very, it's very much an internal panic.
It's, so there are days like that
where I just don't know what to do with the scene,
performance wise.
And what's funny is, when you watch it with friends,
they might be like, "Oh, you're great in this scene.
"That was a great scene."
You're like, "Eh, yeah, I, I know what,
"I know what this could have been",
and it sort of drives you crazy a bit,
'cause you're like, "Ah, this could have been so much better
"if I had done this, this and that."
The best moment of my career so far
has probably been the role of number Five.
I was incredibly lucky to get such a complex character
off the back of doing a, sort of a sitcom for four years.
Yeah, Five is this murderous psychopath, who's also a caring
and time traveling hyper-intelligent being.
To anyone who's read the comic books,
it's a very enticing role,
so to get to bring that to life every day,
number one, it's a challenge, but it's so much fun.
I would say research the character
and get comfortable just committing.
You're gonna end up doing a lot of auditions
where everything feels very artificial
and you just need to make friends with the make believe.
Well, when I started acting, I was nine and I'm now 18,
so I'm twice the amount of Aiden.
In 20 years, I hope to have done a couple of albums
and be a touring musician.
Release some albums, do some films that I love
and find the person that puts a smile on my face.
Hopefully I will have found that person
within the next 20 years.
Most of the time,
when I need to sort of get really energized
is for playing number Five.
He has a lot of those scenes
where he just is at this level of energy and craziness
that I need to get in that state.
So Coca-Cola and pushups, mostly, that sort of thing.
I also sprint back and forth.
We were shooting the scene
where it's Five, old Five and Luther.
Five has got paradox psychosis.
Before each of the takes, I would run back about 30 feet
and then sprint into the mark right before they yell action,
so that when you see me,
it's this sort of out of breath, hyper energy thing,
and yeah, that was really helpful.
I don't really take a lot of selfies.
Every once in a while, I might do a TikTok or something.
Most of the time, I'm filming my stuff for YouTube video,
so I don't really take a lot of selfies,
but good lighting, I would say.
That always helps.
At the moment, there are, there's five lights here,
so yeah, takes a lot sometimes.
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