my friends and i used to do everything
together
that's why these past few months have
been so hard
we used to study together after school
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and binge our favorite tv shows
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we were there for each other
through the good and the bad
one two three play
and we still are i know right
no matter what hey guys
because when it comes down to it there
you go nothing can get in the way of
friendship
give extra get extra
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yeah say take one
yeah okay take one
that was so fun
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hi i'm santiago queer and i play gus in
chicken girl season seven
hi i'm karin joy and i play simone on
chicken girls
it's my dad i'm sorry
musica gracias
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sorry
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yes
hi guys my name is katie and i'm a
content producer here at brattv
so there were a lot of new characters
this season what with haley bringing in
her group of friends to the show
so we basically had to start from
scratch in building these new characters
gus is a little bit on the smarter side
and he loves skateboarding so simone
is a very sassy character she tries to
get what she wants
she definitely adds flavor to the pot
she loved dancing
i don't think she really tried the
singing part at all
but she's very confident she works
really hard for what she wants
hi i'm madison liebman and i was the
producer on season seven of chicken
girls
one thing that was fun and different
about this season during prep was
getting to know all the new cast members
it really feels like the show was
perfectly cast
he can be nice but sometimes he's a
little bit mean
does it ever get annoying winning
everything why would i want to lose
when the guidance counselor calls my mom
about feeling a pop quiz she's just like
well that's gus for you
the bar's low i guess i've never failed
pop quiz
yeah it's tough to feel when claire
future does all your homework tk
he's a he's a character man he's uh
kind of a shy guy i'm definitely sassy
like her but not that sassy
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he's a lot of cool friends but he has
some relationships he's got to work on
she also just loves her friends and
loves hanging out with her friends and
her
having to leave is really sad because
she wants to be a part of the chicken
girls
but overall i think he's a cool guy he's
pretty friendly
um i think we're similar in the way that
we can both balance our hobbies
and like school work and more important
stuff just remember
my dog ate my homework how to run what
gus mind if i sit
she likes chewing gum because in manny
she chews gum in most of the scenes
so she likes string gum i like doing
them i would say long like a long time
ago i was
very similar to her i love dancing
dancing was
my number one thing but i think we have
some differences now
i was very confident when i was young
and i think growing up to be in this
kind of world
i've kind of lost that confidence
hopefully i can get that back
um but i think i think playing this
character again will be really helpful
really helpful if i would describe gus
in one word
i would probably say like smart i just
feel like he's very
smart if i had to describe kayla in one
word it would probably be competitive
she's very very competitive
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sassy
so a lot of work goes into the wardrobe
for harmony specifically
we went for kind of a mix between her
more vibrance
funky looks from past seasons of manny
mixed with more of an
everyday attaway look that fits in with
the chicken girls
leila style layla has such a sick style
i
walked in the first day and i saw my
wardrobe and i got so excited
she has more of like a skater girl
streetwear style which is kind of
my vibe too so it was just really fun to
be able to dress up as her
i've seen what belle wears she's kind of
it's kind of like dark it's not too
bright but i love her style you see got
some
print going on here her style was very
creative it's very you could tell it's
very her character you know
it kind of shows her attitude our
costume designer casey is amazing and
she got to have a lot of fun with the
new characters
who's your real favorite uh to dress my
favorite would probably have been
belle
you hooked her up with those neon clips
that one day i did
i did i remember you guys like it's so
red
she likes a lot of jeans and tennis
shoes i love tennis shoes and jeans i
love
long sleeve stuff so actually it's
pretty similar
um yeah i love the wardrobe it's really
nice
i think it's pretty it's pretty dope not
gonna lie
he wears like these hawaiian shirts too
and like i actually wear them myself
so i think our like style like mixed
together really well
but i really like his style it's really
nice i really like i like it a lot
to be honest the design it's pretty fire
it's very thin
and so i can like breathe it in and then
give me a black shirt black pants to be
honest this is what i would wear i'm
like a
to like a party or something like that
it
changes a bit sometimes it's a bit more
like on the nerdy side
and like right now she's like more like
casual normal
yeah i'd probably wear this or something
similar kayla's style
in the beginning she had this like hip
sweatpants
kind of vibe and we weren't really on
the same
path with clothes but now my character's
wearing baggy jeans which i'm okay with
that and hoodies
so i think we have some similar clothing
options
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hey you're okay hey guys my name is
kenny rivera and i run the assistant
director department for brat tv
for this specific group a lot of them
have acted before a lot of them have
never acted in their lives and when it
comes to putting everybody together
you know you get a little bit worried to
see how is it going to turn out but for
the specific group
it turned out pretty great it's funny
because my character is like nervous and
this is my first time acting
well i've been in shameless i was like a
co-star which was my first theatrical
role but i've done many commercials
beforehand so
i've been acting for a couple to three
years now so
not my first time but a really cool
experience to be here
so even though a lot of these kids had
already known each other before filming
chicken girls
we had to have a table read so that
everybody could run their lines and see
how they mesh together
and of course during these coveted times
we did it virtually like you ever heard
you're texting
i'm together yes i've done a lot of
plays but this is my first
role in a tv show who do you keep
texting egg
who do you think belle this is what
happens when you skip the pep rally
i told you my date fell through sounds
like this girl is made up
i have i've been on nickelodeon series
cartoon on nickelodeon it was all
scripted
i'm kind of used to scripted things now
okay so when i was on the show dance
moms
they had acting classes at the studio
after we were done filming
and then after that i've just been
taking acting classes consistently here
in la and it worked out perfectly
because you didn't know i'm impressed
i have acted but this is like my first
i'm on a camera and i have like an
actual script and everything
i like it it's really fun and really
enjoyable
chicken girls was my first ever scripted
show which is
crazy i had no idea what i was doing you
go and watch the first episode i love
watching it it's one of my favorite
activities to do
you can definitely tell but we've gotten
better we've improved so is everybody
else in the shower we've definitely all
grown
we have english together oh totally
meant to be
hey where were you this morning tk was
so slow
one day in the school year and you're
already choosing boyfriends
over best friends he's just my friend
what was it like acting for my first
time on like chicken girls
it was a good learning experience i
learned a lot from it
i don't know nice what do you mean nice
since when do you have a problem with
rudimentary words
what do you mean rudimentary tk not like
fruit i don't know what that means
it was kind of nerve-wracking it took a
little bit of getting used to but then
we all kind of got comfortable it's like
an everyday thing we lived there pretty
much
and it turned out to be like enjoyable
fun
so i'm the one who gets them ready in
hair and makeup
wardrobe i get them to school and apart
from that i just make sure that they're
having fun on set
look at those potatoes hey literally
you're here collab rolls royce bentley
rolex collab you big
new keep them fresh i
was acting i wasn't in a lot of stuff it
was when i just moved to la
and kind of just auditioning a bunch of
places i booked a couple jobs but
chicken girls was my first like show
which is really cool
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you still rolling we're wrong
so let's be totally honest the cast are
kids
just like you they're hyper energetic
fun to hang out with so when it comes to
saying their lines
they will forget one or two lines and
that is completely fine
so what i do to try to help them out and
prevent that situation before they get
into set
into their next scene i run the lines
with them and i make sure that they know
exactly what they're saying why are they
saying it before they go to set so it's
easier for them so
britney decided she's going out with
someone today well the pets who asks
let's charles i like to practice on my
own
and um probably to get in the zone i
like to
do something that's completely different
from reading the script
it gets me more comfortable with my
situation walker is so gonna ask you
he's almost as hard as his brother to
the pep rally
duh we are on sets for brats and i
am practicing my lines because i didn't
land them last night
because i was sweet i think like right
when i'm on set i just
it just hits me and i'm like okay kayla
but i
it hasn't happened like i haven't played
kayla in so long
so i probably should start getting into
character right now
right now before shooting chicken girls
the night prior i will go through my
lines
make sure i know them and then go to
sleep and i'll wake up knowing them even
better than i did
but to just get in our mode i don't
really think about it or sweat it
i just do it offset
i do like try to get my mind into the
set of eggie
so me and haley last night we went over
the scripts at like
one in the morning and yeah we just went
over them until we got them and then
eventually did them without scripts in
the car on our way here and it's
actually really easy to memorize them
you just have to know your timing
usually i just like read the lines over
and before my scene i like to read them
with
the other cast members too i think that
really helps skin to character
and i always remember like anything i
say it's not me it's like my character
i look up to zendaya i have been looking
up to her
since literally shake it up now also her
her the way she acts is so different now
and she's older so she's doing more
older stuff
i think it's just a cool journey i think
it's just
playing different characters and see how
i can like interact with
other people as well so i mean those are
my favorite parts
and just getting to meet more people too
and building more friendships
what inspires me is just people that are
really like able to
drive towards their goals like like
really amazing actors you know like
i know this is kind of cliche but people
like brad pitt leonardo dicaprio
they have like a drive like they'll just
keep going like i keep seeing
those kind of people in just movies and
they really inspire me also like robert
downey jr you know he was in a bad place
in his life but
he was able to come out of that and be
one of the best actors
ever so
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you