WEBVTT - Starring Trevor Tordjman as Bucky in “Zombies” 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:16.760 Thank you so much for joining us over here on 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.680 our Park Copper episode. We are very excited to talk 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.320 to this person today because this was, I said, one 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:26.120 of my favorite ones we've seen so far. I thought 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.320 the music was the best, the dancing was incredible. Yes 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.440 that's me saying that. Ooh ooh. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.159 But man, this guy, oh, he was so mean. I 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.839 didn't like, oh, Bucky, So if you could help us. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.880 Welcome from Zombies, Trevor Torchman. 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:45.879 Ah, how are you? 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.000 How are you? Guys? Nice to see you. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:50.720 We are so happy to be talking to you. You have 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.600 no idea. We're very excited about this. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.480 Hey, I'm equally as excited to meet you and talk 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:56.920 to both of you. What's going on? 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.160 Nothing much, we said, we're gonna do our best to 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.600 just not the entire time being like, you're so great. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.240 We love this. We loved everything about it. It was 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:06.040 just so fun. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:07.920 That's too fun. Thank you. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.680 First of all, I am not a fan of musicals 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:16.800 or dancing. Okay, so welcome and then and this is welcome. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.080 Right, perfect place for me there. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:22.560 But then I watched something like Zombies and I said 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.600 to Sabrina, I'm like, I love this movie. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.680 I was I think the highest rated. 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.399 One we've done so far, for especially for me, for 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.160 when it comes to singing and dancing. And I'm starting 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.280 to get more into musicals because Sabrina is making me. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.280 She's like, you've got to see it for what it is. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.280 And so by the time we got to this, the 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.600 music was catchy, the the dancing was incredible. I just 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.200 wanted to get that out there. That are changing my mind. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.040 You're changing my mind much incredible. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.320 I'm so happy that we could be the ones to 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.320 give you the bug, you know, musicals moving forward. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.160 That's that's incredible. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.360 Huge thank you from me, Trevor, because keep in mine. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:05.400 He's watched Descendants, he's watched The Cheetah Girls, he's watched 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:06.760 High School Musical. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.440 Yeah, wow movie. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.760 Yes, we've already seen a lot of the bangers. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:12.680 This is my favorite one. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.280 Those big titles is his favorite. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:17.799 So this is my favorite one. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.360 Wow will that means a big one. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:23.200 That's crazy. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.320 It's not only that this is no joke. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.280 It's so popular that when I told my pod Meets 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:34.120 World co hosts Danielle and Ryder that we were doing zombies, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.440 both of them at the same time went. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.200 I'm doing Zombies. I'm doing zombies with. 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:41.160 You, and so Rider yelled at he did so Rider 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.760 yelled at first. He watched it with us for our 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.919 magical rewind and Danielle's doing zombies too, so they both 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:47.560 called zombies. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.639 It's their favorite series so far. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.760 That's incredible and we loved it. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:55.360 So I've been talking too much, curiously, let's get into 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.600 how did you hear about zombies? 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.000 Was this just a regular audition that came across the pipe? 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.120 Walk us through that, dude, a totally random audition that 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.800 kind of just came down the pipeline. I'm a Canadian actor, 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.280 so I was actually in Toronto. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.680 But what's funny is the movie shot in Toronto. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.519 I got it in la and then went back to Toronto, 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.000 which was incredible for me. So when I showed up 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.720 to the job, I didn't even know that it was 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.799 going to be like this. I was coming off tour 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.799 from Australia, so I was like kind of out of it, 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.000 like completely jetlag. And I happened to know every dancer 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.760 on the set because I grew up dancing with all 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.239 them and they're all from Toronto, and it was such 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:30.960 a special job for me. It was like I was 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.280 surrounded by friends and family and loved ones the whole time. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.680 And so that mixed with just how special the script 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.000 was and how cool the cast is and the crew. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.320 It was such a special job for me. What's funny 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.400 to sorry to actually answer your question. The audition it 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.120 just said untitled Zombies Musical, and I was like, what 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.320 is this? And then you guys know how much of 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.520 a trip Bucky is? Right, So reading Bucky's lines, I'm like, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.320 what does he even say? I was digesting the lines. 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.840 I was like cajun or shaking bait. I was like, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:03.840 I just need to make a joke out of this. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:04.400 You know what I mean? 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.080 And I remember I was wearing my bathing shuit and 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.680 my now wife was taping with me. She's like, are 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.200 you going to change out of your bathing suit? I 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:15.480 was like, no, run it, let's do it. Just did 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.880 this whole thing, and then the director was like that's perfect, 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.200 Like whatever you did. But it was one of those 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:22.840 tapes where I was like, am I really going to 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:24.919 send this? I'm really messing around quite a bit, but 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.720 I was like, screw it. This is this is what's 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.520 this is the fun of it, right, Like I think 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.440 at one point I was like walking into the wall 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.760 and the tape stuff and like it was just crazy. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.159 But it ended up working out right because Bucky's such. 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.240 A ham and I was being a ham in the tape, 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:39.880 so they kind of lined up. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:40.680 Well. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.080 Tell me, one of my favorite things I've ever seen 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.600 in film, and this is not hyperbole, is jumping through 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.680 your own picture in slow motion, yeah, and making the 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.960 picture you just jump through, but in front of the 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:52.919 other one that's. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.440 The same, and then and then behind it is yet 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:56.440 another picture. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.240 I another one. It's incredible, really ill. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.760 Never forget up to set that day and being like 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.360 what's going on? Like, and the stunt guy was there, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.359 He's like, I'm gonna jump through this. I was like, dude, 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.080 I love you, but I gotta do this time. Like 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.240 I'm like I have to be the one jumping through it, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.560 like you need the face Like it was so funny. 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.680 Oh my god, wait, I have to pause quick and 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.080 ask what were you on tour in Australia for What 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:20.560 were you doing? 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:21.440 Oh? 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.000 I was on this show called The Next Step, but 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.880 the Canadian series is a dance show, okay, And we 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.800 toured England and Europe and Australia and New Zealand and 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.240 Canada a bunch of Is it like. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:31.839 A dance competition show? 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.200 No, it's it's like a it's kind of like a 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:40.200 faux reality kids drama show, but in a dance studio. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.839 Wow, okay, I take it. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.360 Is it true in Australia you have to dance in 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:47.200 the opposite direction? 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.520 Yep, all your player, what's go that way? 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.560 I thought, I love. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.560 Just the toilet bowl, just the toilet. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.680 Well, going back to that that picture moment, that definitely, 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.480 I mean one of the things that was so amazing. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.000 You clearly tumble at least if not major. Are you 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.880 a gymnast or you a tumbler. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.920 I'm a dancer, so I have a dancer that dancing, yeah, 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.920 and tumbles like I was a break dancer and I 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:15.920 did a bit of acro dance and stuff. I mean 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.800 I don't technic, Like, I don't have good technique with 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.400 my tumbling. So when gymnasts watched me, they're like, but 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.440 you know, I get it done. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:24.440 Yeah. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.640 I love how you do when you do your round 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.120 off bactuck, you do like. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.960 A stall before you actually flip it. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.680 That looked to me that this by far for me, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.480 was the best choreography. Yeah, for all of the style, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.680 the breakdancing like influence and hip hop influence within this 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.839 choreography was hands down to me, definitely the best of 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.200 that the channel has ever put out. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.480 I loved it so much. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.159 But I love that because even though you were on 0:06:55.240 --> 0:07:00.279 the cheerleading side of it, you're tumbling though. That stalled me. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.040 Looked like how a breakdancer does their macro flip so 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.560 much exactly. Yeah, a gymnast goes right into it, a 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.040 cheerleader goes right into it. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.040 A breaker stalls it. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.600 Makes you think they're gonna fall, and then flips at 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:14.040 the end. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.720 That was my favorite part of your talk. I loved that. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:17.720 That was so fun. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:18.559 Thank you so much. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.400 And I love that you did it. You could tell 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.080 one hundred that was you, no stunts, that was love. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.280 I love that you recognize that. That's incredible. Thank you 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.240 so much. I mean shout out Chris Scott. He choreographed 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.720 Zombies one. He's an incredible choreographer, worked on things like 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.640 Step Up and and I totally agree, like the hip 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.480 hop that's in Zombies is so cool to see, Like 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.360 if I was growing up and saw Zombies I would 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.280 be a huge fan of it, like as I'm biased 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.960 as possible because I was a young breaker hip hop 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.760 dancer and to see what was going on in that film, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.040 like it was so exciting just to get to be 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.240 a part of. And yeah, you know, I had to 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.680 focus a lot on cheerleading and like cinemas l which 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:02.400 I'm not used to, and like, Christy run anything you're 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.480 doing great, looks a bit too cool, like cheerleader it up. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.200 I was like, yeah, we find that. You know that pocket, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:10.360 that cheerleader pocket. 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:11.960 Yeah. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:12.760 She was like you can't. 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.120 You can't be popping along and like there's one scene 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.360 in the last number where he let me kind of 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:18.920 just like he's like just pop it out a bit 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.200 for you, you know, yeah, which is super nice of but uh, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:23.600 that's funny that you recognize that. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:23.960 Yeah. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.200 I love when Jim see my flips are cheerleaders. Like 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.960 the cheerleaders on set were like, oh, you're doing that different. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:29.920 You know. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:31.440 Yeah, that's so funny. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:32.360 I was learning it. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.760 In my backyard on my trampoline, just like learning how 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:35.880 to flips. Like that looks cool? 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:36.319 Do that? 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.319 I love it? I love it. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.280 Okay, So we talked to Kylie Russell about it, and 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.000 she told us they didn't audition her to dance at all. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.120 She said she danced a tiny bit maybe in. 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.280 Like the first video she sent in, but really not 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:54.240 like they based. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.520 She's like, they picked me, and and when. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.520 I realized how much dancing I was gonna do, she 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.679 was like, you guys didn't even know if I. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.080 Could dances, Like this could be a this could go 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.800 horribly for you right now because you didn't even check to. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:06.680 See if I could dance. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.559 Oh that's so funny. That's so funny. 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.840 So was there any dance portion there had to have 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.600 been considered? Your character was the head. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.440 Cheerly, there was a big dance portion for me? 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:17.600 Okay, what was that? 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:17.840 Like? 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.200 Yeah, Like I remember the whole morning of the last 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:23.959 callback for me was a dance portion. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.040 So Chris taught us a whole piece of choreography. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.040 There was a bunch of us still, probably like three 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.000 or four people for each role, and then we had 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.000 to dance them in groups. And then I remember, specifically 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.319 for Bucky, we all kind of had to freestyle a bit, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.240 and I was just flipping my butt off. 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.520 I was like spinning and flipping and break dancing the 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:43.760 most I could. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:44.760 Yeah. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.720 I remember Judy Taylor, who was the head of casting 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.960 for a long time at Disney Channel after was like that. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:55.080 Audition was crazy. I was so impressed but also so 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.840 scared at the same time, you know, because all. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.160 Of us were just flipping because we knew Bucky was 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.160 this head cheerleader and had to be, you know, the 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.000 best cheerleader ever. And so I think the tumbling was 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.000 kind of a big part of that casting process. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.440 That's certainly different than some of the other auditions we've 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.800 heard about, like from people from Brink and things like that, like, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.280 well we had to roller blade. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.200 You know, like a normal Underson. 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:17.800 Yeah, not quite the same. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:22.840 So, Okay, you're obviously a very accomplished dancer, singer, actor, 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.040 and I personally myself wanted to be a break dancer. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:28.959 Didn't think I had a chance. Watch the last Olympics. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:29.600 Now I know I can do. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.319 Never too late, will late. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:32.800 Now i know I've got a shot. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.679 Yeah, but I know the name of the studio that 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.400 your mom I think started, yeah, has one of the 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.520 greatest names ever. So tell us how you started on 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:42.680 your kind of dancing journey. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.120 Absolutely so, my mom ran a dance studio an our 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:52.800 western Toronto called Confidence Studio. Obviously COMPI dance, and she 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.760 comes from a family of Nacha's nine siblings and so 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.280 all my cousins, I've got like forty first cousins and 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.640 they all danced at the studio, and so it was 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.080 truly a family affair every day going to the studio. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.440 That's like I spent more time there than my home. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.240 I didn't even know that I loved dancing though, until 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.120 I was like twelve or thirteen. Like we were playing 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.080 hockey in the foyer and my mom's like getting the 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.040 class and then we're like running the class and we're 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.400 flipping off walls and putting holes in the walls, and 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.679 she's like, oh geez, like how am I going to 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.480 deal with you boys? You know, because there was a 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.439 lot of guys. It was like all my first cousins 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.480 and then all of our friends, and we all danced 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.120 at the studio. So I grew up dancing at that 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.040 studio from like age four to eighteen. And it wasn't 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.120 until I was about twelve or thirteen that I was like, oh, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:36.960 I really love this and like want to find a 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.800 way to do this, you know, but at that point 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.920 I had already skipped so much ballet class that my 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.480 technique was way behind, you know, and so all I 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.680 had was performance. You know, when I was when I 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.439 was doing these pieces, I was performing and. 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:50.160 Committing to the role. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.520 And it wasn't until later that I realized that that 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.000 was acting, you know, And that's that was a big 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.760 part of dancing that I loved. And I always loved dance. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:00.560 It'll always be my first love. I still do it 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.679 all the time, but acting was such a big part 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.800 of that love. And so that kind of led me 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.120 to a talent agent. I had a dance competition and 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.240 started doing dance jobs, and then it was the next 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.280 step that show that we toured with that gave me 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.440 my first kind of real job as an actor. And 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.360 that went on and you know, did over one hundred 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.560 episodes of that and it was a whole journey. And 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.319 then I came out to LA and just continue to 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.040 pursue it, and then that's when Zombies happened. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.840 Wow, Yeah, that's I mean, that's amazing to me. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:28.920 With such a. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:34.760 Huge family business within dancing and stuff outside of the family, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.080 who were your inspirations growing up for dancing? 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:42.600 Outside of the family. Yeah, I mean Michael Jackson huge. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.920 Like we had a DVD of MJ and my brothers, 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.600 and I just like memorized all those music videos and 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.120 just wanted to dance like him. And then like there 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.120 was all these choreographers that I looked up to, like 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.920 Tucker Barkley I was very inspired by, and me and 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.560 Eastwood I was very inspired by. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:12:59.959 Also my family. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.160 I had a cousin, I had two cousins actually that 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:04.600 they worked on camp. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.240 Rock when I was a little guy. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.640 And so they were big inspirations for me in like 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.240 the possibility to actually get to pursue it, you know, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.079 like they kind of carved that pathway and I was like, oh, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.079 they could do it, I could do it, and they were. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.480 They also taught me a lot, like my one cousin 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.480 taught all the hip hop at the studio, and so 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:24.960 they were big inspirations. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.440 Luther Brown is a big choreographer. He was a big 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:29.200 inspiration for me. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.960 He's an incredible hip hop choreographer, is from Toronto and 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.680 he kind of made the jump over to LA and 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.520 is extremely successful. And so that was another one that 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:38.600 was like, Oh, that's. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.719 Incredible, you know, yeah, you can make it. You can 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:41.160 make it. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:42.840 Yeah, exactly exactly. You know. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:44.000 I love that. 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.520 Need those people to be like, oh, I see you 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.080 doing it, I can do the same. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.680 Then you know she's be the confidence to do the same. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.680 All right, So take take zombies out of the equation, 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.000 since you you both know so much more about this 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:01.040 than I ever could know zombies. What's the choreography you've 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.280 seen in another D com? Are you a dcom fan? 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.040 I shouldn't even ask. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.119 Yeah, I've seen I've seen my fair share of D coms. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:12.239 I mean, Sneakrella had some sick choreography. That's a newer one, Sneakrella. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.120 But high School Musical. 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:14.280 Actually, so. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.440 At Confidence Studio we would always put on a big 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.280 we called it productions, and the productions like a ten 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.280 minute number, usually inspired by a. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:24.320 Musical or a movie. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.480 And one year we did high school Musical, so I 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.840 knew all the choreography. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:30.320 We're all. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.440 I gotta say, like that choreography is iconic. So high 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.640 school Musical is definitely up there too. Yeah, camp, especially. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.440 When you learn how little time they had to do it. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.160 We talked them about it. It's like the Materia scene 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.160 they had like a day. They shot that in like 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:46.920 a dead Yeah. 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.640 It's crazy. It's crazy. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.000 Other because they hadn't. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:51.840 High School Musical was the one that, you know, other 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.400 than the Cheetah Girls, right, High School Musical was the 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.440 one that really made the musical the musical for for Disney, 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.160 So they didn't know they had yet. So it was like, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.080 all right, yeah, you a week's worth of rehearsal and 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.280 then you got to go shoot this thing now, we hear, right, 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.480 I think isn't the next the New Zombies movie? One 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.720 of them is like a forty million dollar budget yep. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.840 And yes, so slightly different than Brink. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.680 Yeah, it's gotten a bit bigger since then. It's gotten 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:16.240 up big, bigger. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.960 It's not Johnny Tsunami anymore. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.560 Right, Thank god for High School Musical because they they 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.360 carved the way for the rest of us, you know, 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.880 Like it was such a huge success, and I think 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.040 it just showed the channel how special musicals can be. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.920 And Keny Ortega is a genius to you know, He's 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.120 someone that I would love to get to work with. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.880 And so, yeah, that choreo is definitely iconic. That's crazy 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.600 to hear that they did that in a day, because 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.480 as a kid. That scene was mind blowing. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.760 Yeah, amazing, so memorable, too, big time for me. I 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.680 feel like it's usually the scene people think of when 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.760 they think of high School Musical the movie. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.840 They go straight to that cafeteria scene. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.680 Oh definitely, I go pop and lock and jail. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.120 That's where all the court the characters are really shown, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.360 and the difference is of all of them, and you 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.320 find your person, you find the breaker. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:04.200 That's what your. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.480 Thing is like, exactly. 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:16.600 Yeah, so back to zombies because we can't just talk 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.280 high school Musical the whole time as much as I 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.040 want to. Yeah, how many auditions did they put you 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.000 through before you finally got the role? 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:24.480 Just too? 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.200 I did a cell tape, Yeah, I did a celtape 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.720 and then well, I guess three kind of because I 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.800 had a little workshop with the director, and then I 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.320 came out to LA and did a larger one. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.080 So just those three, so. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.320 You really you're you didn't live here, you really did 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.800 live there, fly here for the audition, and fly back 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:46.680 to shoot it. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.160 It's funny because I had just moved here this year, 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.080 but then we went on tour and we were rehearsing 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.440 the tour in Toronto, so I was in Toronto, but 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.040 then came back for the audition, went away for the tour, 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:58.960 and then went back to Toronto to film the movie. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.960 And I was like, I mean, any time in l. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:03.720 Just spend money on the apartment. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.119