WEBVTT - Starring Corbin Bleu as Chad Danforth in “High School Musical” 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:16.560 Thank you so much for joining us over here in 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.160 our park Hopper episode of Magical Rewind, where we could 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.720 not be more excited to talk to our guests today. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:24.720 What a get. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.440 We just watched High School Musical and I think Sabrina 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:30.160 was amazed that I liked it as much. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.279 As I did. I was. I was so happy and 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.400 I cannot wait to get some of the insights. How 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:41.440 about you. Let's bring them in Corbon Blue. 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.639 Hey, what a good you? 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:52.080 Oh my god, I can't crazy. 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.440 I wish I could give you a big hug right now. 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:55.200 I can't. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.640 I feel like the last time I actually saw you 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.200 was one of your birthdays. It was a big one. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.040 It was like it was at a club or something. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:03.040 We were young. 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:03.920 Oh, we were young. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:04.480 We were young. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.600 I think you're talking about my twenty fifth birthday. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.760 Yes, I think so. That's literally the last time I think. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.840 I see it was like that was the last, like 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:15.839 big shin, So I'm five. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:17.760 That's not cool. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:19.559 There's no way that it's. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.839 Been ten years, I think. 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.800 So, man, you gotta be kidding. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.360 We gotta fix that because we are such grown ups 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:33.959 now in the show. Wow, thank you so much for 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:35.840 coming on this or thank. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.720 You for having me. I will, how are you. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.000 I'm fine, I'm not gonna say anything. I'm gonna sit 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:40.759 back and you. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:41.720 Let you talk. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.119 Because you and I met once at a convention. Yea 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:50.040 much more recent, much more recently. Yes, and of course 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:51.840 I uh walked right up and I was like, you 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.800 got to come on our podcast. Him will by the way, 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.560 but you got to come on our podcast. I'm so 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.000 happy that you are here to join us. Sabrina has 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:00.640 been gushing about. 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.360 Just so excited. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.760 Because we were going through this together, right, I mean, 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.800 we were seeing each other at Disney Channel stuff over 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.320 and over the games this, I mean seeing each other 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.920 at the different premieres that was on the channel and 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.040 just everything that the channel did, high school musical and 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:21.079 the Cheetah Girls were there. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.200 It was just always a statement. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:24.160 Yes. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.880 And then to go and watch you then go on 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.240 to Dancing with the Stars was I mean once I 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:30.960 saw I've. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.720 But knowing how much like you and I loved her perform, I. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.120 Was really excited for you because I was you were 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:42.080 going to get to show off your dancing ability, which 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.320 is obviously shown in the movies, but not on that level. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:47.440 Latin and ballroom dancing. 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:48.959 It's just a whole difference. 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.280 And I was excited for you to like experience this 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.880 other world that you know, we didn't know before we 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:54.480 did the show. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:59.880 So you were phenomenal, Oh my gosh, phenomenon. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.680 I mean, show stopper after show stopper after show stopper. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.360 I could go on and on, but we're here to 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:10.520 talk about the d Coom High School Musical. I had 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.520 no idea until we got all the information that this 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.079 was a billion dollar franchise. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.240 The franchise is a billion dollar franchise. 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.400 We joke all the time that that we bought them 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:22.040 Star Wars. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:23.760 You did? 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:31.200 You did this franchise like single handedly changed the Disney stock. Yes, 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.200 I mean stock went up after this came out. That's insane. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:36.440 Now do you. 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.120 Remember the first time you heard about High School Musical? 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.600 And anyway, was this just another random audition that came across. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.360 Your It was another it was another dcom. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.480 Yeah, And at that time it was crazy because I 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.960 was I definitely was at a crossroads just in my 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:51.920 life in general. I was, I was in high school. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.760 I was, I was fifteen when we shot that first 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:59.640 movie Wow, and I was just accepted into Stanford for 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.280 it just like and fit. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.720 Wait at fifteen you got into Stanford? 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.200 I was so I was a year ahead in school 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:10.320 and I had applied also a year ahead. So I 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:15.040 ended up. Yeah, at that and that moment, I was 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.919 deciding if I was going to continue this as a career. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.840 I knew I loved doing it, and I've been doing 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.080 it since I was a kid. I started off at 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.480 at two years old as a child actor, and my 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.359 dad's a performer as well, so I just sort of 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.320 I grew up in the industry and always loved it, 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.360 but I was considering a different path. I knew that 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.359 I always wanted to perform, but is this what I 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.919 actually want to do for the rest of my life. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.000 I auditioned for high School Music. The audition price to 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.800 Musical came about because of Pannah Montana. Okay, that was 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.680 how that all began, because I I auditioned for Ana 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:56.480 Montana booked that I was Miley's first love interest in 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:02.479 the pilot episode. Yeah, that was that was that and 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.360 then that of course that that began the relationship with 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:10.080 jud Taylor in to read for for High School Musical, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:16.040 which was on paper an amazing project. It was an 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.760 original musical I got to do. I was getting to 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.240 show up all these things that I love to do 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.440 that I've been I was actually also at an arts 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:28.880 high school and it was doing musical theater, and like, 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.760 this is really cool, but also who knows, who knows 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.760 what this is going to be. I ended up, of 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.279 course booking it, and and that was the same time 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.520 that I had to go, Okay, well I need to 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:44.880 I need to defer first of all, right, and uh 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:50.360 and you know the three three movies later with franchise 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.359 that at that point I was going, Okay, well, this 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.280 is this is what I'm I'm doing, this is what. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.599 Yes, So the pilot of Hannah Montana and then High 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.400 School Musical, did you do any other groundbreaking things for the. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.359 Channel while you're at it? 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.840 I mean, my god, and I did this little first 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:05.799 thing with Mickey Mouse. 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.440 They didn't no one kne who he was at the time. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:14.039 Ill and then that that spawned jump In, Yes, which which. 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.240 I forgot about. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:19.720 Jumping broke the numbers of High School Musical. Jump In 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.359 actually had had had even better ratings than the original 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:24.160 film the. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:25.440 First the first time they aired it. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.040 That was what and that at that time I didn't 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:34.200 understand the impact of Jumping specifically because again I was 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:39.159 at that time, I was seventeen. I'm just working, I'm 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.360 living in the moment, I'm I'm having fun, I'm enjoying it. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.599 I'm focusing on on the job. And for that to 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:51.440 have been in a very very small group of black 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.239 movies that Disney Channel had at that time. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.000 Yeah, we just watched proof Point, which is one of 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:59.360 their other and one of the other few. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.400 Yeah, one of the other few. Exactly true. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.520 And now, I mean, you know now as an adult, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.920 and I talked two people you know who grew up 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.280 with that film and the impact that it had on 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.840 them at that time too, see, you know, actually young 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:18.239 but right. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.080 To have a starring role. Yes, yes, it. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.960 Made a big difference because with High School Musical, while 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.560 we were featured and it was amazing, you know, I 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.240 I at the end of the day was still in 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.000 a token role. Yeah, and so that was that was 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.600 was I know, it was a huge Jumping was also 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.520 another really really big step up. And again I didn't 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.160 realize the impact at that time. 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.200 Right now, I have a question, did when you got 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.760 the script for High School Musical, as somebody who you're 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:52.320 a singer, you're a dancer, You're at fifteen, you already 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.160 got into Stanford. Did you read the script and go, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.280 why doesn't he just do both? 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.000 I'm you do? I mean, you're doing everything in your life. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.880 Did that ever come to your head where you're just like, why, okay, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:06.360 so go to both stay. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.600 I feel like the the the stereotypical, all the tropes 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.800 that we knew at that time too. It was it 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.080 was every there's all the different clicks, and there's the 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.560 you know, there's the there's the jocks, and there's the 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.760 weird theater kids, and and you know, there's the science nerds, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.000 and like you, that's always been the case, and I 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:30.640 feel like that separation at that time was more prevalent. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.839 You feel like that that that the the art did 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.560 mimic real life to an extent at that time. I know, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.240 And I was lucky. I went to an arts high school, 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.400 so I was surrounded by all the weird arts kids, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.320 and I didn't do I wasn't into sports growing up. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.439 My parents tried with me. They put me in basketball 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.040 and baseball and taekwondo, and like they gave me my 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.120 first pair of dance shoes my first pair of tap shoes, 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.439 and that was it, see you later, This is this 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.600 is me, this is my life. But you know, showing 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.640 up on the set of the Highol Musical and having 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.160 to play the basketball that was very very foreign to me. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.000 Was that was tough for you to do. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.120 So it was so hard. It was so nice that Hope. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:17.280 I mean that whole process was. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.840 The whole process was crazy because because I showed up 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:25.760 and they went, oh, he can't play, maybe. 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.280 We should have had him bounce a ball or two. 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.760 He's like them. Because the for the for the dance 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:37.880 portion of the audition with Chucky Claypowe, I knew that 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.480 there was going to be basketball choreography. I showed up 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:46.440 in a jersey and basketball short brought the like I played. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.640 I was like, and he was like, all this kid's 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.600 a baller and went back. Of course, it was like no, no, no, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.920 Like he showed up like he's ready, and I was 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.880 using everything that we were doing his choreography and I 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.360 got great control over my body, so I was able 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.880 to do that. But the second you put me on 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.880 a court and go okay, now go do a layup, 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:12.319 that's when turned into Gumby like I don't know. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:18.880 They're like give the ball to somebody else, somebody get takes. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.880 All right, So what you said the dance portion of 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.400 the audition? How how many auditions did you have to 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.480 do for high school musical and were they broken up 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:27.160 in sections? 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.600 They weren't broken up in sections. Actually, it was a 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.040 long process that ended very quickly with booking the job. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.320 I think on like a on a Friday and having 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.479 to fly out on Monday or something like that. Wow, Okay, 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:43.520 you know went in originally just just to read. Then 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.640 they brought me back in for a chemistry read with 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:51.040 and I actually read with Monique Coleman and that was 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:52.480 also with Kenny Ortega. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:53.319 Okay. 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.800 Then had to come back in and do a song huh. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:05.400 And then the final portion was that dance slash basketball performance. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.040 Where did they have you do that? 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:14.839 Debbie Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds Okay, l A, yes. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.080 School dance studio where you go to rehearse. So that's 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.200 a that's a dance studio. Debbie Rentals, Debbie Reynolds. 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.959 Debbie Reynolds is like one of the oldest here. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:26.280 I mean singing in the rain. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.959 I think rehearse there at least they have the they 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.400 have these she has these epic pictures of stuff that 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:37.440 she she's a well known choreographer and she epic pictures 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.280 and stuff of what she's been in. And you walk 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.320 in and you just feel I mean talk about a 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:43.280 place of nostalgia. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.120 You've walk in and you feel, you feel the history, you. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:51.320 Feel like he's here, like, I mean, it's amazing that's 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:51.760 been there. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.720 And I would take classes there like yeah, and I was. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.120 I was part of a dance core that would like that. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.040 We would go and do competitions and. 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.680 Like, oh wow, I was. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.120 That was always a Debbie Reynolds dance studio. So even 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.840 showing up for that dance edition, I was like, this 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:08.160 is my. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:08.840 House, this. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:11.720 Is my player. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.480 Okay, so you've got You've got the role and you 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:16.920 said you got to fly out like a day or 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.520 two later. How long was was the rehearsal process? How 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.079 grueling was it to rehearse for this? 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.600 The rehearsal process was incredible. That was that was when 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.160 I think back on it. The rehearsal processes for all 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.120 three of the films were always my favorite because we one, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:36.719 we had time. I swear we sometimes it feels like 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.080 we had a month. I don't think it was that long, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.079 but I know we had usually between two and three 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:46.440 weeks of just being in a dance room, just being 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.120 in a studio in Salt Lake City. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.160 And oh so they had you guys go up and 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:51.920 rehearse there. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:53.160 We rehearsed there. 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.679 You guys didn't rehearsal week. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.760 We traveled there and immediately got into rehearsals, which created 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.560 such camaraderie right off the bat. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.160 He built your relationships that. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.760 Love, Yeah, that relationship that you form a family, and 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.439 really also just understanding the tone and the vibe of 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.440 what they're they're going for. Getting to know Kenny and 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.560 work with Kenny and seeing his genius in the room 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.920 and how he just is so spontaneous with with iconic 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.240 moments that he comes up with. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.880 Yeah, and he does that just you. I love. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.880 It's one of my favorite things to watch him when 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.760 he's walking around the room and he's just yeah, he's got. 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.679 He does this thing with his finger overs. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.760 And all of a sudden he goes and then he 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.640 just breaks out some crazy thing that you're like, he 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.480 goes to go do this, do this, do this, and 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.480 you watch it you're like, how did you think of that? 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.040 Yeah, So when we work together, him and Chucky would 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:54.679 basically choreograph big chunks of things together before we came in. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.320 They would give it to us, and then he would 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.320 kind of critique and mold it. Is that how he 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.480 molded your guys' choreography or was it just all taught? 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.040 It was a little bit of both. I mean, it 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:08.400 was definitely taught. They would always have the choreography already set, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:13.320 but there would be moments where someone would do something 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.160 different or interesting, and then of course they would they 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.840 would pull pull on that and expand and expand from that. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:19.720 Yeah. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.520 But the the the all the choreography was such an 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.960 amalgamation of Chucky Claypow. Bonnie's story was another one of 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.720 our choreographers in Utah. And then of course Kenny and 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.400 the you know, Chucky style on his own is so 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:42.000 mj I know, but he's so sharp, and he's and 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.320 and he's just gotten to such a fluidity about him. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.320 And then then you have Kenny, who was just it's 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.840 so it's so vibrant and performance big. And then Bonnie 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.760 really I thought, brought in so much more of the 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.000 classic jazz elements that you see in there too. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.920 Yeah, I know nothing of dance, by the way, to 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.360 the record, I know nothing about dance, and so I 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.440 always sit there and I'll watch these movies and I've 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.320 never seen them. I'm I'm I was the last person 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.720 in the world to have not seen High School Musical. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:16.120 I think that was my wife. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.160 It wasn't okay, she still hasn't seen it, by the 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:21.560 way I watched last night. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.040 Yeah, them, but that was meant to be, you know, 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.360 like she when we met, she had never seen them, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:28.400 and it was a good thing that she had never 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:28.840 seen them. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:29.920 That's what you want. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:30.360 Totally. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.120 I always have to look to Sabrina and I'll be like, look, 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.360 it looked good to me, but is this good? 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.000 And She's like, yeah, this is this is very good. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:48.560 She's showing me the. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.520 Whole way, like no, don't you see how And even 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.960 as a complete neophyte, again knowing nothing of dance whatsoever, 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.840 I could see the complexity of the choreography. I could 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.240 see the levels where there's things happening on every spot 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.680 of the screen where it's in the background. These people 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.960 are doing something in the foreground, these people are doing 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.240 something off to the sides and the wings. There was 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:15.880 no section of the frame that wasn't filled with choreography. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.600 It was almost overwhelming. And how amazing it was. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.600 The cafeteria routine. A man, how long did that take 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:28.120 you guys to film? Because that is a huge, epic number. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.760 On our biggest numbers, we had maybe a maximum of 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:37.320 three days, which is amazing actually because I also went 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.840 back and I worked on the high School musical, the 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:44.040 musical the series and I did that. Now for that 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.080 we had, I did a whole huge number in that 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.560 we had one day of rehearsal in a room and 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:56.120 we shot it in one day. Wow, and how quick 0:16:56.280 --> 0:17:00.760 the turnaround. It just made me so grateful for the 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:05.960 all of the time that we had those numbers and 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.359 actually working on the original films, all of that. What 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.119 you're talking about, Will that's Kenny. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.119 Yeah. 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.560 So first of all, just because it's I don't like 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.760 go watch my own stuff over and over again, I 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.199 hadn't watched them in a very long time. And because 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.399 I went back to go do the series, I actually 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.960 went back and watched some of the old numbers and 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.439 that was that was cool in itself because it had 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.680 been so long there was a separation. I didn't feel 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:40.440 like I was watching me. I was watching this kid. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.440 I was just watching and I was able to and 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.239 I was able to truly see it from just a 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:51.800 viewers perspective, and I I was like, this is really good. Yeah, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.880 and it holds up. It holds up. And I feel 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.320 like the reason that that is is because of the 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.800 detail becau, because of there wasn't a single moment that 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:08.000 Kenny wasn't just trained on that monitor and wanting every 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.480 aspect of that screen field, like you said, and he 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:18.680 really demanded of everyone, not just our principles, but background 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.280 like you would constantly, and and you know that's that's 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:27.520 for those who don't know, there are rules that directors 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:33.520 are not allowed to directly give direction to background. That 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.320 has to usually go through a first a d oh wow. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:38.880 I don't even think I knew. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:40.679 I didn't know that for Dance. I knew that was 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:41.560 for regular film. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:43.800 But that adds a whole other layer of complexity when 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:44.800 you're dealing with danting. 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.440 So yes, so there would, and he was always always 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.000 relaying information and sometimes he would just go and get 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:55.359 on the b directly to talk to them. But but yeah, 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.159 it was he He was also always inspiring. He was 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:04.720 always talking about what what ultimately he wanted and the feeling, 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.080 and he was always allowing everyone to participate in that 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:13.200 because that too, you often get a separation between principal actors, 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:17.639 background actors, whatever that may be, and the background actors 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:19.560 often feel like they're in the dark. 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.400 Yeah, and he never left. 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.439 He was always involving everyone, which is why when you 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.199 watch the movies, like every single person on that on 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.920 that screen is vibrant. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:31.080 And a lot. 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.480 Yeah, and they look like they're having a blast. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.840 Do you guys look like you had so much fun 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:39.200 filming these movies. 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:40.080 Well, that's truly. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.199 I mean, I know this is people are gonna be like, oh, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.000 come on, you can't compare the two, but you really can. 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.800 That's that's an old school throwback to almost Shakespearean theater 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.720 where the chorus was just as important as everything else 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.200 going on, right, and so you were a cast all 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:55.840 the way around. 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:57.840 Oh you have no lines. I don't care what if 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.280 my eye goes to you. 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.200 You have to be doing whatever you can the same 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.479 way that the principles are in the front. And that 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.439 really is old school theater with stuff like that. So 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:08.040 that's great to hear because. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:09.760 It's it's it's the little deaths. 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.159 Yeah, are little deaths. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:17.000 Throughout any project that that just because it's not in 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:22.040 the foreground. If you're watching, there's something subconsciously that we're 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.359 all going it's not it's not real. 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:28.080 It's not all yeah, right, and I mean, look. 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:29.720 It's at the end of the day, it's it's it's 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.240 a Disney Channel movie. Yeah, you know, we have it's 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.080 it's there's the there's elements of it that we all 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:39.440 know are silly. Yeah, but but there there is a 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:46.200 a truth that is there that everyone was tapped into. 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:47.320 Yeah. 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:49.119