Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us over here on
Speaker 1: our Park Copper episode. We are very excited to talk
Speaker 1: to this person today because this was, I said, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite ones we've seen so far. I thought
Speaker 1: the music was the best, the dancing was incredible. Yes
Speaker 1: that's me saying that. Ooh ooh.
Speaker 2: But man, this guy, oh, he was so mean. I
Speaker 2: didn't like, oh, Bucky, So if you could help us.
Speaker 1: Welcome from Zombies, Trevor Torchman.
Speaker 2: Ah, how are you?
Speaker 3: How are you? Guys? Nice to see you.
Speaker 2: We are so happy to be talking to you. You have
Speaker 2: no idea. We're very excited about this.
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm equally as excited to meet you and talk
Speaker 3: to both of you. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Nothing much, we said, we're gonna do our best to
Speaker 1: just not the entire time being like, you're so great.
Speaker 2: We love this. We loved everything about it. It was
Speaker 2: just so fun.
Speaker 3: That's too fun. Thank you.
Speaker 1: First of all, I am not a fan of musicals
Speaker 1: or dancing. Okay, so welcome and then and this is welcome.
Speaker 3: Right, perfect place for me there.
Speaker 1: But then I watched something like Zombies and I said
Speaker 1: to Sabrina, I'm like, I love this movie.
Speaker 2: I was I think the highest rated.
Speaker 1: One we've done so far, for especially for me, for
Speaker 1: when it comes to singing and dancing. And I'm starting
Speaker 1: to get more into musicals because Sabrina is making me.
Speaker 1: She's like, you've got to see it for what it is.
Speaker 1: And so by the time we got to this, the
Speaker 1: music was catchy, the the dancing was incredible. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to get that out there. That are changing my mind.
Speaker 1: You're changing my mind much incredible.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy that we could be the ones to
Speaker 4: give you the bug, you know, musicals moving forward.
Speaker 3: That's that's incredible.
Speaker 5: Huge thank you from me, Trevor, because keep in mine.
Speaker 6: He's watched Descendants, he's watched The Cheetah Girls, he's watched
Speaker 6: High School Musical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow movie.
Speaker 5: Yes, we've already seen a lot of the bangers.
Speaker 2: This is my favorite one.
Speaker 3: Those big titles is his favorite.
Speaker 2: So this is my favorite one.
Speaker 4: Wow will that means a big one.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's not only that this is no joke.
Speaker 1: It's so popular that when I told my pod Meets
Speaker 1: World co hosts Danielle and Ryder that we were doing zombies,
Speaker 1: both of them at the same time went.
Speaker 2: I'm doing Zombies. I'm doing zombies with.
Speaker 1: You, and so Rider yelled at he did so Rider
Speaker 1: yelled at first. He watched it with us for our
Speaker 1: magical rewind and Danielle's doing zombies too, so they both
Speaker 1: called zombies.
Speaker 2: It's their favorite series so far.
Speaker 3: That's incredible and we loved it.
Speaker 1: So I've been talking too much, curiously, let's get into
Speaker 1: how did you hear about zombies?
Speaker 2: Was this just a regular audition that came across the pipe?
Speaker 4: Walk us through that, dude, a totally random audition that
Speaker 4: kind of just came down the pipeline. I'm a Canadian actor,
Speaker 4: so I was actually in Toronto.
Speaker 3: But what's funny is the movie shot in Toronto.
Speaker 4: I got it in la and then went back to Toronto,
Speaker 4: which was incredible for me. So when I showed up
Speaker 4: to the job, I didn't even know that it was
Speaker 4: going to be like this. I was coming off tour
Speaker 4: from Australia, so I was like kind of out of it,
Speaker 4: like completely jetlag. And I happened to know every dancer
Speaker 4: on the set because I grew up dancing with all
Speaker 4: them and they're all from Toronto, and it was such
Speaker 4: a special job for me. It was like I was
Speaker 4: surrounded by friends and family and loved ones the whole time.
Speaker 4: And so that mixed with just how special the script
Speaker 4: was and how cool the cast is and the crew.
Speaker 4: It was such a special job for me. What's funny
Speaker 4: to sorry to actually answer your question. The audition it
Speaker 4: just said untitled Zombies Musical, and I was like, what
Speaker 4: is this? And then you guys know how much of
Speaker 4: a trip Bucky is? Right, So reading Bucky's lines, I'm like,
Speaker 4: what does he even say? I was digesting the lines.
Speaker 4: I was like cajun or shaking bait. I was like,
Speaker 4: I just need to make a joke out of this.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And I remember I was wearing my bathing shuit and
Speaker 4: my now wife was taping with me. She's like, are
Speaker 4: you going to change out of your bathing suit? I
Speaker 4: was like, no, run it, let's do it. Just did
Speaker 4: this whole thing, and then the director was like that's perfect,
Speaker 4: Like whatever you did. But it was one of those
Speaker 4: tapes where I was like, am I really going to
Speaker 4: send this? I'm really messing around quite a bit, but
Speaker 4: I was like, screw it. This is this is what's
Speaker 4: this is the fun of it, right, Like I think
Speaker 4: at one point I was like walking into the wall
Speaker 4: and the tape stuff and like it was just crazy.
Speaker 3: But it ended up working out right because Bucky's such.
Speaker 4: A ham and I was being a ham in the tape,
Speaker 4: so they kind of lined up.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Tell me, one of my favorite things I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in film, and this is not hyperbole, is jumping through
Speaker 1: your own picture in slow motion, yeah, and making the
Speaker 1: picture you just jump through, but in front of the
Speaker 1: other one that's.
Speaker 5: The same, and then and then behind it is yet
Speaker 5: another picture.
Speaker 3: I another one. It's incredible, really ill.
Speaker 4: Never forget up to set that day and being like
Speaker 4: what's going on? Like, and the stunt guy was there,
Speaker 4: He's like, I'm gonna jump through this. I was like, dude,
Speaker 4: I love you, but I gotta do this time. Like
Speaker 4: I'm like I have to be the one jumping through it,
Speaker 4: like you need the face Like it was so funny.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, wait, I have to pause quick and
Speaker 6: ask what were you on tour in Australia for What
Speaker 6: were you doing?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I was on this show called The Next Step, but
Speaker 4: the Canadian series is a dance show, okay, And we
Speaker 4: toured England and Europe and Australia and New Zealand and
Speaker 4: Canada a bunch of Is it like.
Speaker 5: A dance competition show?
Speaker 4: No, it's it's like a it's kind of like a
Speaker 4: faux reality kids drama show, but in a dance studio.
Speaker 5: Wow, okay, I take it.
Speaker 1: Is it true in Australia you have to dance in
Speaker 1: the opposite direction?
Speaker 3: Yep, all your player, what's go that way?
Speaker 2: I thought, I love.
Speaker 4: Just the toilet bowl, just the toilet.
Speaker 6: Well, going back to that that picture moment, that definitely,
Speaker 6: I mean one of the things that was so amazing.
Speaker 6: You clearly tumble at least if not major. Are you
Speaker 6: a gymnast or you a tumbler.
Speaker 4: I'm a dancer, so I have a dancer that dancing, yeah,
Speaker 4: and tumbles like I was a break dancer and I
Speaker 4: did a bit of acro dance and stuff. I mean
Speaker 4: I don't technic, Like, I don't have good technique with
Speaker 4: my tumbling. So when gymnasts watched me, they're like, but
Speaker 4: you know, I get it done.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I love how you do when you do your round
Speaker 6: off bactuck, you do like.
Speaker 5: A stall before you actually flip it.
Speaker 6: That looked to me that this by far for me,
Speaker 6: was the best choreography. Yeah, for all of the style,
Speaker 6: the breakdancing like influence and hip hop influence within this
Speaker 6: choreography was hands down to me, definitely the best of
Speaker 6: that the channel has ever put out.
Speaker 5: I loved it so much.
Speaker 6: But I love that because even though you were on
Speaker 6: the cheerleading side of it, you're tumbling though. That stalled me.
Speaker 6: Looked like how a breakdancer does their macro flip so
Speaker 6: much exactly. Yeah, a gymnast goes right into it, a
Speaker 6: cheerleader goes right into it.
Speaker 5: A breaker stalls it.
Speaker 6: Makes you think they're gonna fall, and then flips at
Speaker 6: the end.
Speaker 5: That was my favorite part of your talk. I loved that.
Speaker 5: That was so fun.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: And I love that you did it. You could tell
Speaker 5: one hundred that was you, no stunts, that was love.
Speaker 4: I love that you recognize that. That's incredible. Thank you
Speaker 4: so much. I mean shout out Chris Scott. He choreographed
Speaker 4: Zombies one. He's an incredible choreographer, worked on things like
Speaker 4: Step Up and and I totally agree, like the hip
Speaker 4: hop that's in Zombies is so cool to see, Like
Speaker 4: if I was growing up and saw Zombies I would
Speaker 4: be a huge fan of it, like as I'm biased
Speaker 4: as possible because I was a young breaker hip hop
Speaker 4: dancer and to see what was going on in that film,
Speaker 4: like it was so exciting just to get to be
Speaker 4: a part of. And yeah, you know, I had to
Speaker 4: focus a lot on cheerleading and like cinemas l which
Speaker 4: I'm not used to, and like, Christy run anything you're
Speaker 4: doing great, looks a bit too cool, like cheerleader it up.
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, we find that. You know that pocket,
Speaker 4: that cheerleader pocket.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: She was like you can't.
Speaker 4: You can't be popping along and like there's one scene
Speaker 4: in the last number where he let me kind of
Speaker 4: just like he's like just pop it out a bit
Speaker 4: for you, you know, yeah, which is super nice of but uh,
Speaker 4: that's funny that you recognize that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I love when Jim see my flips are cheerleaders. Like
Speaker 4: the cheerleaders on set were like, oh, you're doing that different.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so funny.
Speaker 3: I was learning it.
Speaker 4: In my backyard on my trampoline, just like learning how
Speaker 4: to flips. Like that looks cool?
Speaker 3: Do that?
Speaker 5: I love it? I love it.
Speaker 6: Okay, So we talked to Kylie Russell about it, and
Speaker 6: she told us they didn't audition her to dance at all.
Speaker 5: She said she danced a tiny bit maybe in.
Speaker 6: Like the first video she sent in, but really not
Speaker 6: like they based.
Speaker 5: She's like, they picked me, and and when.
Speaker 6: I realized how much dancing I was gonna do, she
Speaker 6: was like, you guys didn't even know if I.
Speaker 1: Could dances, Like this could be a this could go
Speaker 1: horribly for you right now because you didn't even check to.
Speaker 2: See if I could dance.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so funny. That's so funny.
Speaker 6: So was there any dance portion there had to have
Speaker 6: been considered? Your character was the head.
Speaker 3: Cheerly, there was a big dance portion for me?
Speaker 5: Okay, what was that?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I remember the whole morning of the last
Speaker 4: callback for me was a dance portion.
Speaker 3: So Chris taught us a whole piece of choreography.
Speaker 4: There was a bunch of us still, probably like three
Speaker 4: or four people for each role, and then we had
Speaker 4: to dance them in groups. And then I remember, specifically
Speaker 4: for Bucky, we all kind of had to freestyle a bit,
Speaker 4: and I was just flipping my butt off.
Speaker 3: I was like spinning and flipping and break dancing the
Speaker 3: most I could.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I remember Judy Taylor, who was the head of casting
Speaker 4: for a long time at Disney Channel after was like that.
Speaker 3: Audition was crazy. I was so impressed but also so
Speaker 3: scared at the same time, you know, because all.
Speaker 4: Of us were just flipping because we knew Bucky was
Speaker 4: this head cheerleader and had to be, you know, the
Speaker 4: best cheerleader ever. And so I think the tumbling was
Speaker 4: kind of a big part of that casting process.
Speaker 1: That's certainly different than some of the other auditions we've
Speaker 1: heard about, like from people from Brink and things like that, like,
Speaker 1: well we had to roller blade.
Speaker 3: You know, like a normal Underson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not quite the same.
Speaker 1: So, Okay, you're obviously a very accomplished dancer, singer, actor,
Speaker 1: and I personally myself wanted to be a break dancer.
Speaker 2: Didn't think I had a chance. Watch the last Olympics.
Speaker 2: Now I know I can do.
Speaker 3: Never too late, will late.
Speaker 2: Now i know I've got a shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I know the name of the studio that
Speaker 1: your mom I think started, yeah, has one of the
Speaker 1: greatest names ever. So tell us how you started on
Speaker 1: your kind of dancing journey.
Speaker 4: Absolutely so, my mom ran a dance studio an our
Speaker 4: western Toronto called Confidence Studio. Obviously COMPI dance, and she
Speaker 4: comes from a family of Nacha's nine siblings and so
Speaker 4: all my cousins, I've got like forty first cousins and
Speaker 4: they all danced at the studio, and so it was
Speaker 4: truly a family affair every day going to the studio.
Speaker 3: That's like I spent more time there than my home.
Speaker 4: I didn't even know that I loved dancing though, until
Speaker 4: I was like twelve or thirteen. Like we were playing
Speaker 4: hockey in the foyer and my mom's like getting the
Speaker 4: class and then we're like running the class and we're
Speaker 4: flipping off walls and putting holes in the walls, and
Speaker 4: she's like, oh geez, like how am I going to
Speaker 4: deal with you boys? You know, because there was a
Speaker 4: lot of guys. It was like all my first cousins
Speaker 4: and then all of our friends, and we all danced
Speaker 4: at the studio. So I grew up dancing at that
Speaker 4: studio from like age four to eighteen. And it wasn't
Speaker 4: until I was about twelve or thirteen that I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: I really love this and like want to find a
Speaker 4: way to do this, you know, but at that point
Speaker 4: I had already skipped so much ballet class that my
Speaker 4: technique was way behind, you know, and so all I
Speaker 4: had was performance. You know, when I was when I
Speaker 4: was doing these pieces, I was performing and.
Speaker 3: Committing to the role.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't until later that I realized that that
Speaker 4: was acting, you know, And that's that was a big
Speaker 4: part of dancing that I loved. And I always loved dance.
Speaker 4: It'll always be my first love. I still do it
Speaker 4: all the time, but acting was such a big part
Speaker 4: of that love. And so that kind of led me
Speaker 4: to a talent agent. I had a dance competition and
Speaker 4: started doing dance jobs, and then it was the next
Speaker 4: step that show that we toured with that gave me
Speaker 4: my first kind of real job as an actor. And
Speaker 4: that went on and you know, did over one hundred
Speaker 4: episodes of that and it was a whole journey. And
Speaker 4: then I came out to LA and just continue to
Speaker 4: pursue it, and then that's when Zombies happened.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, that's I mean, that's amazing to me.
Speaker 5: With such a.
Speaker 6: Huge family business within dancing and stuff outside of the family,
Speaker 6: who were your inspirations growing up for dancing?
Speaker 4: Outside of the family. Yeah, I mean Michael Jackson huge.
Speaker 4: Like we had a DVD of MJ and my brothers,
Speaker 4: and I just like memorized all those music videos and
Speaker 4: just wanted to dance like him. And then like there
Speaker 4: was all these choreographers that I looked up to, like
Speaker 4: Tucker Barkley I was very inspired by, and me and
Speaker 4: Eastwood I was very inspired by.
Speaker 3: Also my family.
Speaker 4: I had a cousin, I had two cousins actually that
Speaker 4: they worked on camp.
Speaker 3: Rock when I was a little guy.
Speaker 4: And so they were big inspirations for me in like
Speaker 4: the possibility to actually get to pursue it, you know,
Speaker 4: like they kind of carved that pathway and I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: they could do it, I could do it, and they were.
Speaker 4: They also taught me a lot, like my one cousin
Speaker 4: taught all the hip hop at the studio, and so
Speaker 4: they were big inspirations.
Speaker 3: Luther Brown is a big choreographer. He was a big
Speaker 3: inspiration for me.
Speaker 4: He's an incredible hip hop choreographer, is from Toronto and
Speaker 4: he kind of made the jump over to LA and
Speaker 4: is extremely successful. And so that was another one that
Speaker 4: was like, Oh, that's.
Speaker 5: Incredible, you know, yeah, you can make it. You can
Speaker 5: make it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly exactly. You know.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 4: Need those people to be like, oh, I see you
Speaker 4: doing it, I can do the same.
Speaker 3: Then you know she's be the confidence to do the same.
Speaker 1: All right, So take take zombies out of the equation,
Speaker 1: since you you both know so much more about this
Speaker 1: than I ever could know zombies. What's the choreography you've
Speaker 1: seen in another D com? Are you a dcom fan?
Speaker 1: I shouldn't even ask.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen I've seen my fair share of D coms.
Speaker 4: I mean, Sneakrella had some sick choreography. That's a newer one, Sneakrella.
Speaker 4: But high School Musical.
Speaker 3: Actually, so.
Speaker 4: At Confidence Studio we would always put on a big
Speaker 4: we called it productions, and the productions like a ten
Speaker 4: minute number, usually inspired by a.
Speaker 3: Musical or a movie.
Speaker 4: And one year we did high school Musical, so I
Speaker 4: knew all the choreography.
Speaker 3: We're all.
Speaker 4: I gotta say, like that choreography is iconic. So high
Speaker 4: school Musical is definitely up there too. Yeah, camp, especially.
Speaker 1: When you learn how little time they had to do it.
Speaker 1: We talked them about it. It's like the Materia scene
Speaker 1: they had like a day. They shot that in like
Speaker 1: a dead Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Other because they hadn't.
Speaker 1: High School Musical was the one that, you know, other
Speaker 1: than the Cheetah Girls, right, High School Musical was the
Speaker 1: one that really made the musical the musical for for Disney,
Speaker 1: So they didn't know they had yet. So it was like,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, you a week's worth of rehearsal and
Speaker 1: then you got to go shoot this thing now, we hear, right,
Speaker 1: I think isn't the next the New Zombies movie? One
Speaker 1: of them is like a forty million dollar budget yep.
Speaker 1: And yes, so slightly different than Brink.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gotten a bit bigger since then. It's gotten
Speaker 4: up big, bigger.
Speaker 2: It's not Johnny Tsunami anymore.
Speaker 4: Right, Thank god for High School Musical because they they
Speaker 4: carved the way for the rest of us, you know,
Speaker 4: Like it was such a huge success, and I think
Speaker 4: it just showed the channel how special musicals can be.
Speaker 4: And Keny Ortega is a genius to you know, He's
Speaker 4: someone that I would love to get to work with.
Speaker 4: And so, yeah, that choreo is definitely iconic. That's crazy
Speaker 4: to hear that they did that in a day, because
Speaker 4: as a kid. That scene was mind blowing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, amazing, so memorable, too, big time for me. I
Speaker 6: feel like it's usually the scene people think of when
Speaker 6: they think of high School Musical the movie.
Speaker 5: They go straight to that cafeteria scene.
Speaker 3: Oh definitely, I go pop and lock and jail.
Speaker 6: That's where all the court the characters are really shown,
Speaker 6: and the difference is of all of them, and you
Speaker 6: find your person, you find the breaker.
Speaker 2: That's what your.
Speaker 3: Thing is like, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so back to zombies because we can't just talk
Speaker 1: high school Musical the whole time as much as I
Speaker 1: want to. Yeah, how many auditions did they put you
Speaker 1: through before you finally got the role?
Speaker 3: Just too?
Speaker 4: I did a cell tape, Yeah, I did a celtape
Speaker 4: and then well, I guess three kind of because I
Speaker 4: had a little workshop with the director, and then I
Speaker 4: came out to LA and did a larger one.
Speaker 3: So just those three, so.
Speaker 1: You really you're you didn't live here, you really did
Speaker 1: live there, fly here for the audition, and fly back
Speaker 1: to shoot it.
Speaker 4: It's funny because I had just moved here this year,
Speaker 4: but then we went on tour and we were rehearsing
Speaker 4: the tour in Toronto, so I was in Toronto, but
Speaker 4: then came back for the audition, went away for the tour,
Speaker 4: and then went back to Toronto to film the movie.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I mean, any time in l.
Speaker 5: Just spend money on the apartment.
Speaker 3: Apartment, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: And so then it wasn't really until after that first
Speaker 4: movie that I came to La Proper and really actually
Speaker 4: spent some time here.
Speaker 2: Okay, well welcome.
Speaker 3: That was like eight years ago or something.
Speaker 6: Man, it's crazy. Had you had any experience you kind
Speaker 6: of touched on it a little bit. Had you had
Speaker 6: any cheer experience or No?
Speaker 3: No, I had no cheer experience.
Speaker 5: Just from the production. Your studio did bring it on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, legit, legit like that's all.
Speaker 4: I actually started to try to study a bit of
Speaker 4: cheerleading before the movie because I was like, I gotta
Speaker 4: figure this out, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And you said you had a stunt double.
Speaker 6: Was that more so for the cheer part, like stunting
Speaker 6: and that stuff.
Speaker 4: No, the only time I had a stunt double was
Speaker 4: for that stunt you guys brought up where I dived
Speaker 4: through the photo of myself that you.
Speaker 2: Had to do yourself. Anyway, You're like, I'm doing this.
Speaker 4: Even that day, I was like, I'm totally doing the
Speaker 4: stunt and the director's like, ah, we can't.
Speaker 3: I was like, Paul, you have to let happen. I
Speaker 3: have to do this. I was like, you need the shot,
Speaker 3: you need my cities do it. I'm like, we got
Speaker 3: to do it.
Speaker 4: And that is one of my one of the best
Speaker 4: times I've had on set ever because that it's such
Speaker 4: an exhilarating thing, and then I live for that stuff,
Speaker 4: like I'm like I want to do the stunts, you know.
Speaker 4: And so it's like fifteen foot high ramp just to
Speaker 4: a huge poster and you can't see what's on the
Speaker 4: other side of that poster, so it's a little scary,
Speaker 4: but there's just two layers of empty cardboard boxes because
Speaker 4: at that height, that's actually a better thing to fall
Speaker 4: into than a matt because a matt would actually hurt more.
Speaker 4: And so I was like, you guys sure, and they're like,
Speaker 4: they had a whole stunt team there of guys around
Speaker 4: the cardboard boxes to make sure I wouldn't go anywhere,
Speaker 4: and I just dove right through it. And then after
Speaker 4: the first take they were like, you actually dove too much,
Speaker 4: Like I came out too horizontal. They're like come out
Speaker 4: like more like like whole body front.
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, and then we only did it those.
Speaker 4: Two times and they're like, all right, we got it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was so fun awesome.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I'm so jealous.
Speaker 2: It looked so good.
Speaker 1: I mean, it looked It's one of my favorite shots
Speaker 1: of any movie I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: I think, is that just with the face.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are the most fun parts. I'm like, I
Speaker 3: gotta do this. I have to experience this, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm really happy to let me do that.
Speaker 5: Oh wow.
Speaker 6: Okay, So were you a part of the stunts then,
Speaker 6: like the stunting of the cheer stunts. Did you have
Speaker 6: to do any of that or were you just flipping?
Speaker 3: Not really, No, Like I just did my own flips
Speaker 3: and my own tumbling.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 3: The real pro cheerleaders were behind this, throwing each other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were thing.
Speaker 2: Everybody in the air and everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I wasn't doing any of that. I was just
Speaker 4: blowing a whistle.
Speaker 3: I was like stretch. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you've got the past behind you in that you
Speaker 1: saw how important the musicals were to Disney. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: you're shooting this did you think, hey, we got something here,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a big hit, or is
Speaker 1: it kind.
Speaker 2: Of like, you know, I don't know about this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was the vibe on the set.
Speaker 4: I mean, I definitely was extremely excited by it, and
Speaker 4: it's hard not to be when you're doing those huge
Speaker 4: dance sequences and stuff. But when you're making it, there's
Speaker 4: always you know, you don't want to get too excited.
Speaker 4: You know that there's a chance that it doesn't go
Speaker 4: as well as you hope. You're trying not to get
Speaker 4: your hopes up. But at my core, my hopes were
Speaker 4: all the way up. You know. It was such an
Speaker 4: incredible experience, and like you guys were saying, the choreography
Speaker 4: is so cool in it and the sequences are so
Speaker 4: well thought out that I.
Speaker 3: Was like, this is going to be great.
Speaker 2: Wow, it was so it was amazing. It was really amazing.
Speaker 1: Again as somebody who is this is not their thing, right,
Speaker 1: I finished it and I was like that.
Speaker 2: What a phenomenal movie. I mean, it was really really good.
Speaker 3: So entertaining, that's so cool to hear. That's so cool
Speaker 3: to get point right, we wanted to do everyone.
Speaker 1: And it was now did you know going in that
Speaker 1: this was actually based on a failed pilot for Disney.
Speaker 4: No, I had no idea. I didn't learn that until
Speaker 4: like I don't even think I learned that until the
Speaker 4: movie was over. Oh really, really again, Megan Milo knew
Speaker 4: and they're like, oh, yeah, this is the whole pilot,
Speaker 4: Like here's who played you, and here's who I'm like, what, like,
Speaker 4: no idea?
Speaker 5: Kylie said the same thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, was like I'm like, I'm writing stuff all the time,
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to produce stuff and I've had a
Speaker 4: bit of success selling scripts, but i haven't gotten anything
Speaker 4: big made yet. But that is always inspiring to hear,
Speaker 4: like zombies the idea was a thing years before it
Speaker 4: was a TV pilot and then years before it was
Speaker 4: a movie, And it's like, wow, like these ideas really
Speaker 4: take so long to flet, to truly flesh out.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anything, anything good that you're sitting there watching on
Speaker 1: television right now is ten years to make.
Speaker 4: Oh totally, and made its way through all the reasons
Speaker 4: why it couldn't be made, or you know it is.
Speaker 3: It is cool to think of projects like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you have to too.
Speaker 1: It keeps you going in the industry to know that,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, exactly, got another no. But you know,
Speaker 1: in six months, the guy who just said no to
Speaker 1: me isn't going to be working there anyway.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 4: It's all changed, and this project might be a known now,
Speaker 4: but maybe five years down the line they're like.
Speaker 3: Whoa, wait, that project then now makes sense here And.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Queen's Gambit, biggest show of the year, Queen's Gamut
Speaker 1: twenty years in the making, twenty where they tried.
Speaker 2: To make that year.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nuts.
Speaker 1: Okay, So movie comes out, it's got a huge following.
Speaker 1: It's it's like, I think the first weekend they played
Speaker 1: it a whole bunch of times, so there was like
Speaker 1: ten or twelve million views just.
Speaker 2: That first weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, did your life change right away?
Speaker 2: I mean was this instant?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean relatively. It's so funny. It's bringing me
Speaker 4: back to that time. It's already so long ago. It
Speaker 4: feels like it's not long ago, but it is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, online the reception was huge, and
Speaker 4: I was seeing that like crazy with me.
Speaker 3: I think Bucky is so different.
Speaker 4: Than who I am, and so I would get a
Speaker 4: lot of interactions publicly where people are like, you know,
Speaker 4: I'd begin to dinner and I could see that, ay,
Speaker 4: they they thought it was me from that movie, and
Speaker 4: then I can hear the.
Speaker 3: Mom talking to them and like, I didn't like that character.
Speaker 3: He's so mean. Look at me again, like hey, and
Speaker 3: like wait it is you?
Speaker 4: Like I don't think they put two and two together
Speaker 4: easily with me for my character always. Yeah, yeah, of course,
Speaker 4: Like the reception online especially was was huge.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean what was awesome about your character is
Speaker 6: you're the villain, but you're not You're not mean.
Speaker 5: You're just so full of yourself. Yeah, you're just you
Speaker 5: just love yourself.
Speaker 3: So much, right, laughable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you're not necessarily evil.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's crazy.
Speaker 6: So you're a likable villain, right, you know, it's it's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, That's what I truly loved about the character so much, Yeah,
Speaker 4: is that he could be like so over the top
Speaker 4: and there's no limit and he's so laughable and in
Speaker 4: his world he is the ultimate villain. But like everyone's
Speaker 4: like okay, Bucky like anyways.
Speaker 1: But it's the people that he doesn't like, at least
Speaker 1: in the past, would eat your brains, right, so it's
Speaker 1: like you kind of have a reason to be, like,
Speaker 1: I'm a little wary of the zombie.
Speaker 4: People, Like he actually kind of is the voice of
Speaker 4: reason at times, Like that's the voice of reason, this
Speaker 4: guy that is over the top crazyness.
Speaker 2: Oh man, it's so funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And now in the cartoon, it's so fun because when
Speaker 4: it's animated, there's there's.
Speaker 3: Truly no ceiling.
Speaker 4: So now it's like it's crazy and it's so fun.
Speaker 4: I just feel grateful that I still get to be
Speaker 4: playing his character.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're so excited.
Speaker 6: We've only seen one movie and we're doing first movies
Speaker 6: of all like a lot of the franchises, right, so
Speaker 6: we're excited to see where the development and the characters. Obviously,
Speaker 6: the development of the budget means better sets, better this,
Speaker 6: better that. So we're really stoked to get to especially
Speaker 6: zomb Me Too. That's the one that Danielle Fisher is
Speaker 6: gonna come on. She's she claimed that.
Speaker 2: One Daniel's coming on not to watch Zombies Too.
Speaker 3: Oh great.
Speaker 6: What was your first impressions of the cast? I mean,
Speaker 6: what was cool about this cast is they weren't bringing
Speaker 6: any big names from the channel like they do in
Speaker 6: a lot of their other movies. This was really a bright,
Speaker 6: new shiny cast of just tons of talent.
Speaker 5: What were the first impressions?
Speaker 4: Oh, they like instantly became my family. Wow, Megan I
Speaker 4: had I was doing a lot of scenes with her
Speaker 4: in my audition, and so I already had built a
Speaker 4: rapport with her and she I don't know if y'all
Speaker 4: have met her. She's such an inviting person and such
Speaker 4: like a positive person that she's like the connector to everyone,
Speaker 4: And so I already had built a raport with her.
Speaker 4: But then getting into Milo, like he instantly became like
Speaker 4: a brother to me, you know. And I just remember
Speaker 4: being like, these these guys are so talented. Like I
Speaker 4: was like, you guys are gonna blow up. You know,
Speaker 4: everyone's gonna love you guys so much, And I just
Speaker 4: felt grateful to be working with them, you know. Like
Speaker 4: James Godfrey, the guy that plays Bonzo, he's also from Toronto.
Speaker 4: He's a Canadian actor and he's hilarious. Like I know,
Speaker 4: they had a hard time casting that role. And when
Speaker 4: he came in, he like believably built a zombie language
Speaker 4: and they're like we believe you, Like you're that's a
Speaker 4: real thing now that speaks to like his comedy, like
Speaker 4: he is an incredible writer and comedian, and so yeah,
Speaker 4: I just remember thinking that everyone's so talented, like Kylie's voice,
Speaker 4: and then and then it just it just compounded in
Speaker 4: the second movie. In the third movie, they just kept
Speaker 4: bringing in fresh talent that was so like gifted, and so,
Speaker 4: you know, all you can all you can be is
Speaker 4: grateful get into work with people like that.
Speaker 1: When did you do you talk about the second third movies?
Speaker 1: When did you find out that you were going to
Speaker 1: be doing more films?
Speaker 4: It was probably about a year after the first one
Speaker 4: was made, Okay, yeah, I think it was about that long.
Speaker 4: I had signed on to two pictures to begin with,
Speaker 4: and so I was always kind of hoping for the
Speaker 4: second one.
Speaker 3: The third one was a big surprise, and the fourth one.
Speaker 4: I'm not in the fourth one, but it's incredible to
Speaker 4: see that the brand is still moving.
Speaker 3: It's like, this is amazing. You know, it's been like
Speaker 3: eight years.
Speaker 5: Oh, then we might not get to number four.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we might just not do that one.
Speaker 6: My favorite character, Yeah, they can't get I come on,
Speaker 6: I think we need to Rewhite right now. Funny.
Speaker 5: It will not premiere on Magical Realize.
Speaker 3: Saving Bucky and Space. We're doing a Bucky in Space movie.
Speaker 2: Okay, nice, nice, I like Bucky in Space.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the rude. No spoilers for the third one,
Speaker 4: but not the room third one. But you know, Bucky
Speaker 4: and Space come in. Tell the network someone.
Speaker 1: We were told a little bit. We were told the
Speaker 1: second one. We've got to vampires are coming, where wolves
Speaker 1: are coming, Aliens are coming.
Speaker 3: That's so.
Speaker 4: Ye, aliens are three, and then I think vampires are four.
Speaker 4: Ok okay, but yeah, it is. It is cool to
Speaker 4: see the growth of the characters. I mean, like if
Speaker 4: Bucky can get even more over the top from first
Speaker 4: to second he does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh my gosh, I love it.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I love it.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 6: That's funny because when we did do our interview with Kylie,
Speaker 6: we asked her what character would you think would be
Speaker 6: the best spin off of the movie franchise, and she
Speaker 6: said Bucky for sure.
Speaker 4: That's amazing, even a beat she said, I didn't say that.
Speaker 3: That's super nice.
Speaker 5: For sure. I love that.
Speaker 1: So at D twenty three this year, they made kind
Speaker 1: of a big announcement that the stars from Zombies and
Speaker 1: the stars from The Descendants are going to be touring together. Yes,
Speaker 1: is there anything you can tell us?
Speaker 3: I'll be honest, I don't know too much about that.
Speaker 2: God they are You're not going.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be on it.
Speaker 2: You're not going.
Speaker 3: No, not unless I missed an email or a call.
Speaker 6: Or oh, come on, I'm telling you will. I said
Speaker 6: it when we talked to Kylie about it. I bet
Speaker 6: you they don't know yet. I think they're confident and
Speaker 6: that they can make the announcement of it without knowing
Speaker 6: who and how all those parts are going to work.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you there's no way they're doing this freaking
Speaker 6: tour without Bucky. This just confirmed it.
Speaker 5: There's no way.
Speaker 4: That's so funny. That's super nice of you. But I
Speaker 4: think it's just the beginning of that. Like I think
Speaker 4: there's a whole life of touring here, because I had
Speaker 4: done that bit of touring before. With the Next Step,
Speaker 4: it's such a it's such an incredible experience for people
Speaker 4: get to get to see the same story and the
Speaker 4: same people live, and so I think it's just the
Speaker 4: beginning of its life as a tour.
Speaker 6: For a while back, when Cheetah and High School Musical
Speaker 6: and Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers. There was a
Speaker 6: whole tour trifecta where they I mean there was a
Speaker 6: big group hitting your city in the US, like once
Speaker 6: a month at least, you know. So I definitely think
Speaker 6: they know how much money they can make on it.
Speaker 6: I mean, it makes so much sense. I can't believe
Speaker 6: they haven't done it yet, but I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, I know that they have the confidence
Speaker 6: and the knowledge that they can make that announcement and
Speaker 6: then piece it together later for perhaps.
Speaker 3: Perhaps maybe that's again, would you go if they asked you? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 4: You know, if the things are right and the show
Speaker 4: was right and you've done a certain way, I would
Speaker 4: love to be a part of it.
Speaker 3: I think there was kind.
Speaker 4: Of talks of it, to be honest with you, at
Speaker 4: one point, and then I think it kind of ended
Speaker 4: up going a different direction. But again, I think I
Speaker 4: personally think it's just the beginning of it. I think
Speaker 4: it's going to be very successful. I don't see why wouldn't,
Speaker 4: Like you said, they've had so much success maturing in
Speaker 4: the past. I think live experiences are incredible and I
Speaker 4: think fans will love it, and.
Speaker 3: So assuming it's successful, I'm sure there will be much more.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. Yeah, well we can't wait to come see you.
Speaker 3: I'll let you know.
Speaker 2: And you said that your wife is a dancer as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, my wife's a dancer. She's way out of
Speaker 3: my lead.
Speaker 1: She's like an incredible I was just about to say,
Speaker 1: not to start any any drama, but who's the better dancer,
Speaker 1: you or your wife?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Her, my far You're such.
Speaker 5: A good husband. Look at that.
Speaker 3: She's incredible dancer. She actually won. So you think you
Speaker 3: can dance? Yeah? She won?
Speaker 2: So you think you can dance in Canada?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Cande and I tell everybody.
Speaker 5: That that's amazing.
Speaker 3: I'm telling people that. I'm like, I'll never stop.
Speaker 1: Is it true that the Canadians, so you think you
Speaker 1: can dance? Is exactly the same as the American just
Speaker 1: more polite?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, ignore him, ignore him?
Speaker 3: Like sorry, that dance was just okay, I'm sorry guy.
Speaker 4: It literally is the same, like wants of the same choreographers,
Speaker 4: a lot of the same judges.
Speaker 3: It was. It was pretty much the same show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 1: Think we asked Kylie this as well, who is the
Speaker 1: in your opinion if take yourself out of the equation,
Speaker 1: because you have to do that's the only way to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: Who was the best dancer on the cast of Zombies
Speaker 2: besides you?
Speaker 4: Oh geez, you're making me answer that. Oh man, just curious, dude.
Speaker 3: Everyone is are we talking like the whole movie at large?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, like, sorry, the whole franchise at large?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, well yeah, anybody anybody popping your head
Speaker 1: right away?
Speaker 4: I mean, Kylie is is a dope dancer. Kylie is
Speaker 4: an incredible dancer. She actually danced like she trained and danced.
Speaker 3: She's amazing.
Speaker 2: She said she.
Speaker 6: Really didn't have a lot of dance free. She's a
Speaker 6: ballet dancer. She's a ballet she she's a ballet dancer.
Speaker 3: That's what she told me too. And then she started
Speaker 3: doing pure what yeah right, you know, I know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, She's like, oh no, I'm not really dancing.
Speaker 6: She's like, well I trained in ballet, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 6: then you're probably really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Dancer. Meg and Milo crushed too.
Speaker 4: They're sick dancers, like Meg low Key is a hip
Speaker 4: hop dancer, and so is Milo.
Speaker 3: Like he was doing back.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh yeah, that bam that that's was
Speaker 2: a cool number band number.
Speaker 3: They're all truly really good dancers. Not the pop out
Speaker 3: of the answer.
Speaker 2: But that was no, that was a good answer. I'll
Speaker 2: take that. By the way.
Speaker 1: We just had one of our producers write in that
Speaker 1: year and I don't do a lot on the social
Speaker 1: media machine, but.
Speaker 2: Apparently they are singing in the rain.
Speaker 1: Yeah you do as apparently writing bonkers and amazing in
Speaker 1: giant letters.
Speaker 3: Hey thanks producer.
Speaker 4: My wife and I were super inspired by like that
Speaker 4: era of Hollywood, that golden era, singing in the Rain,
Speaker 4: our favorite movie, just all those dance sequences, and it's
Speaker 4: because you don't see dance in movies like that anymore.
Speaker 4: I mean, Zombies is a great example of you seeing
Speaker 4: it in movies, but like these huge dance numbers where
Speaker 4: you don't cut and it's it's about the dance choreography.
Speaker 4: And so in effort to kind of get to create
Speaker 4: something in that vein, we we just relearned Moses supposed
Speaker 4: us from singing in the Rain, and we did like
Speaker 4: an exact recreation. We tried to do it as I.
Speaker 5: Gotta look that up.
Speaker 3: Up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's amazing.
Speaker 1: So what is in your opinion then, what is the
Speaker 1: best dance movie ever?
Speaker 3: Oh? Wow, question?
Speaker 2: That is the spot the pros. I don't know.
Speaker 3: For me, it's Singing in the Rain. It is Singing
Speaker 3: in the Rain, Like it's such an incredible movie and
Speaker 3: like the dance sequences in it are amazing. I just
Speaker 3: want to bring that back so bad, Like I'm trying
Speaker 3: so hard to write stuff in that.
Speaker 5: Oh I love it right time.
Speaker 4: Period, and that's why we made that video and we're
Speaker 4: going to continue to make something. But just like back then,
Speaker 4: they didn't even cut. They'll cut like three times, like
Speaker 4: they're doing it for real. Like when we when we
Speaker 4: repreated Moses Opposes, we were like, I gotta do it
Speaker 4: so hard.
Speaker 3: And they're like forty something at the time. We're like,
Speaker 3: to's go again.
Speaker 4: Like there's a part where they're dancing on the chairs
Speaker 4: and we're like almost falling off the chairs and that's
Speaker 4: not even the hardest number, you know.
Speaker 3: So singing in the Rain is definitely out there.
Speaker 1: That's the equivalent to me in filmmaking of what they
Speaker 1: used to do in the actual old school martial arts movies.
Speaker 1: Right where we're not cutting, where the talent we have
Speaker 1: on screen is what we want people to see.
Speaker 2: Set up the camera and let them do their thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And that's the same thing with a real
Speaker 1: dance movie, where it's just like, we're not gonna cut,
Speaker 1: just let them dance, and we're going to film them dancing.
Speaker 4: Exactly and it's just rehearsal, and it's just you know,
Speaker 4: a lot of times in filmmaking they tend to rush
Speaker 4: that process, and I'm like, oh, if you give it
Speaker 4: the time that it deserves, like you can get to
Speaker 4: that level where it's like the talent just shines through
Speaker 4: and you don't have to do any cool graphics or
Speaker 4: the effects. You can just have practical, real talent shine through.
Speaker 6: It always makes me wonder, though, I mean, obviously it
Speaker 6: could be done. There is so much talent out there
Speaker 6: in the dance world that could absolutely make something magical
Speaker 6: like that happen. Now that I've got a little girl
Speaker 6: who's four, and like, how how quick she's over things,
Speaker 6: And obviously that happens with because she's little, but I
Speaker 6: also work with high school students and stuff. I wonder,
Speaker 6: can they actually focus that long? Can they actually be entertained?
Speaker 6: That long to not have those quick cuts and those
Speaker 6: you know, those flashy things that directors.
Speaker 5: And everyone do.
Speaker 6: It makes me wonder like, is it only dancers that
Speaker 6: are going to appreciate it?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, that's true, and.
Speaker 5: It's such a big question.
Speaker 4: I think you're right when there is definitely an additional
Speaker 4: challenge in a time like today where we have all
Speaker 4: these fast paced cool like the technology now totally, I
Speaker 4: think dance is the answer, though. I think with something
Speaker 4: like dance you can keep people intrigued enough if you
Speaker 4: want to make them laugh from singing in the rain.
Speaker 4: I personally think a modern day version of something similar
Speaker 4: to that would easily keep kids entertained because.
Speaker 3: Of what he's doing. He's flipping off the wall and
Speaker 3: breaking through sets, and then and this comes here.
Speaker 2: It is Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, hey, it's my goal to prove that we
Speaker 4: can keep the younger Jedi generations enough to have some
Speaker 4: I am here.
Speaker 5: I will be a warrior behind you. You just know.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 3: Talk to me in five years, give me five years, okay.
Speaker 1: Just remember as you're doing it, remember as you're doing
Speaker 1: it that you already have the dancing, the dancings there.
Speaker 1: People will always go for good story.
Speaker 3: Oh so if.
Speaker 1: You've got a good story and good writing, then the
Speaker 1: amazing dancing is just going to be fittered throughout this
Speaker 1: A great film that that'll be I'm in my heart.
Speaker 2: I have to believe that will always be timeless.
Speaker 4: It's so true, it's so true. Story Trump's it all
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 3: And getting to mix those two good story with good dance,
Speaker 3: good acting, good filmmaking, that's the dream, that's the goal.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, well we have to get back to Disney because
Speaker 1: here's a question. So we already asked your favorite dance movie.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite dcom of all?
Speaker 4: Yes, that's a good one too. I feel like I
Speaker 4: feel like it's high school musical. It is high school
Speaker 4: musical because so that one affected me the most, it
Speaker 4: inspired me the most. I think it was also that
Speaker 4: time period, like that's when I was watching Disney Channel.
Speaker 4: M hm, So I think I think I have to
Speaker 4: say high school musical. It's such a special.
Speaker 6: So then what was your favorite high school musical original?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: The first one for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because there's just there's just special sauce in there,
Speaker 4: like no one knew it was going to be great.
Speaker 4: It's like still no budget, and it just it allows
Speaker 4: the talent to like truly shine through it all.
Speaker 6: Again, the only heavy hitter in that movie was Ashley Tisdale,
Speaker 6: but at the same time, a lot of fresh talent
Speaker 6: in high school musical one the first one. You know
Speaker 6: what I mean, it's so cool and they I mean
Speaker 6: they hit it through the roof. They did, they did it.
Speaker 4: And I have to go back to your dance movie
Speaker 4: question quick because in thinking about the ones.
Speaker 3: That affected me have affected my.
Speaker 4: Life the most. Dance movie wise, like You Got Served
Speaker 4: was huge, great movie that changed my life, Like seeing
Speaker 4: the stuff they were doing in that, Like that's what
Speaker 4: made me be like, I.
Speaker 3: Gotta twist when I flip and I gotta learn head.
Speaker 2: Like that just on his elbow.
Speaker 3: I was like, Mom's like, stop studio. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 3: that's up there too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So Disney wise, you you were the host of Disney's
Speaker 6: fam jam Yep, very cool and you also you also
Speaker 6: appeared on Bunked. So you would you have seen Disney
Speaker 6: in different lights, TV shows, hosting and the movies like
Speaker 6: what you obviously were a part of the Disney fam.
Speaker 6: How much did you love being able to now say
Speaker 6: like you're you know, basically Disney Royalty.
Speaker 5: That's incredible.
Speaker 4: That means a lot if I if I make Disney Royalty,
Speaker 4: that's huge.
Speaker 2: You're there.
Speaker 3: I gotta get a plaque.
Speaker 2: On those franchises.
Speaker 3: Come on.
Speaker 4: It was It was super I feel super lucky to
Speaker 4: have to work with Disney for the last decade. Honestly,
Speaker 4: like I did so much a Bunked and Bunked was
Speaker 4: my first real sitcom and like, I loved it so much,
Speaker 4: like just getting to you know, every line is a joke,
Speaker 4: every line is funny, like that's my home, you know.
Speaker 4: And it's also this weird mix between theater and film,
Speaker 4: which happens to work well for me because I'm a
Speaker 4: big actor.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm very physical, and.
Speaker 4: When I go to the big feature film auditions, they're like, hey,
Speaker 4: can you do ten times less?
Speaker 3: I'm like sure on the eyes you know.
Speaker 2: See I've never heard that note before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right exactly, So I've I've worked really hard to
Speaker 4: be able to do that. But the sitcom and zombies,
Speaker 4: I can kind of just like let it fly. So
Speaker 4: it feels real comfortable. But no, getting like get into
Speaker 4: work with Disney's a dream. I mean, you know, I'd
Speaker 4: be chilling at the parks like ten times a year.
Speaker 3: It's like, it's like, is this work? You know what
Speaker 3: I mean? I'm bunked. I'm dressed up like a pig
Speaker 3: swipping through gravy. I'm like, Oh, had a tired day
Speaker 3: at work.
Speaker 4: I was dressed like a big all day. And my
Speaker 4: Mom's like, that's not work, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I feel lucky, super lucky.
Speaker 2: We know what you mean, because Sabrina and I are
Speaker 2: at work right now.
Speaker 6: Right yeah, like the days after we do our podcast,
Speaker 6: I'm exhausted because I'm laughing so hard.
Speaker 5: I'm like smiling so big, and it's.
Speaker 6: Just it's amazing when you literally get to do something
Speaker 6: you love to do so much and that's your job.
Speaker 6: That's just it's awesome. And Disney has done that for
Speaker 6: all three.
Speaker 5: Of us, really blessed us. So that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Total.
Speaker 1: Okay, So final question, Yeah, you've got your Bucky spinoff.
Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want to do. Where is
Speaker 1: Bucky now? And what is the film?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Wow, I should be more prepared for this well, I mean, yo,
Speaker 4: no spoilers to Zombies three if you guys haven't seen it,
Speaker 4: or if anyone watching it.
Speaker 5: You have it?
Speaker 4: No, no, yeah, but Bucky's in space and he has to
Speaker 4: bring cheer to the universe and wherever he lands, he
Speaker 4: has to bring in and sell a new species on cheerleading.
Speaker 3: That's the movie.
Speaker 2: Great idea.
Speaker 1: You're an ambassador of Earth and you're bringing cheerleading cheer.
Speaker 4: Earth and they think that like human beings like, well,
Speaker 4: they're all like Bucky, you know what I mean. They're like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, this is what your people are like. You
Speaker 4: know what I mean by who's like the last the
Speaker 4: last example.
Speaker 3: Of what you know. It's a great idea, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's great. Someone said, Network, that's a great idea.
Speaker 2: I'm in. I'm in. I want to see that franchise.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for taking the time to
Speaker 1: join us.
Speaker 3: Of course, thanks for having me, for telling us that you.
Speaker 2: Are by far a better dancer than your wife. I'm kidding,
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 1: Anyways, Yeah, right, We asked your fellow castmates as well,
Speaker 1: will you come back and play with us again for
Speaker 1: Zombies two and three?
Speaker 3: Absolutely let me know.
Speaker 6: Okay, actually, especially three because it seems like Bucky's got
Speaker 6: quite the ride.
Speaker 5: And then three, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just wait, just wait he goes on a trip.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thank you for making me start to love musicals because
Speaker 1: you were integral in that, like literally integral and me
Speaker 1: starting to love musicals. Man, congratulations on everything.
Speaker 6: Good luck with all your scriptwriting and everything that you
Speaker 6: guys are doing.
Speaker 5: That's amazing you.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. It was really cool to meet you, bo.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, and yeah, I look forward talking
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 3: I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and welcome to La finally after being able to
Speaker 1: be in your apartment, finally appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Cool. Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: By right, Man, he's so different than his character.
Speaker 5: It's unreal. But I like him just as it's great.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: I know, and I know it's a stupid thing to
Speaker 1: say as an actor because you're like, of course, everybody's
Speaker 1: different than their character, but you kind of expect one
Speaker 1: thing and.
Speaker 2: No, there's no hint.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 2: He's so talented too, it's funny.
Speaker 6: He wasn't just himself on camera being funny. He literally
Speaker 6: created a character.
Speaker 1: No, you said something interesting too, though, where you said
Speaker 1: all these dancers that are coming up and how dance itself?
Speaker 1: Even I've noticed the proliferation of dance everywhere with dance shows,
Speaker 1: and you're seeing the things that are going viral and
Speaker 1: all these people that are getting great.
Speaker 2: The difference is to do it in film, you also.
Speaker 1: Have to be able to act and sing, and so
Speaker 1: it's the triple threat that's the difficult part.
Speaker 2: And to find people like that. I mean, he's just me.
Speaker 2: It's getting through the screen.
Speaker 1: They call it getting through the screen where you just
Speaker 1: you don't know what it is, but when you see it,
Speaker 1: you know, you go, that's it. And like Cast the Zombies,
Speaker 1: cast the High School Musical, a lot of these movies
Speaker 1: that we're watching that have these triple threat kids which
Speaker 1: is or young adults, which is what they are. That's
Speaker 1: it that people talk about in Hollywood. It's like there,
Speaker 1: it is coming through the screen. You hate Bucky and
Speaker 1: oh my god, he's funny and he's gonna be in space.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm it.
Speaker 6: Well, the cool thing I feel right now is after
Speaker 6: meeting him, knowing that that is a true character he
Speaker 6: clearly developed. Yep, thought out of this on his own.
Speaker 6: Obviously there was a script, but he made the character right.
Speaker 6: And to know that is so different than the person
Speaker 6: he is. That's what tells me it's it because he's
Speaker 6: got so much more to give us, right, Like, I
Speaker 6: want to see his other characters. I want to see
Speaker 6: what he does in the future. I've got I am tonight,
Speaker 6: you know, I'm gonna be scouring looking for anything I
Speaker 6: can see.
Speaker 2: Oh, the singing in the rain, I can't wait.
Speaker 5: And his wife dancing together. Yeah, talk about a dream.
Speaker 2: I mean that's cool.
Speaker 5: God, how am they?
Speaker 1: That's when you look up and you're up till two
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, all of a sudden you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I watched everything.
Speaker 5: Oh for sure, I'm gonna be doing that.
Speaker 1: But so can't wait to see the second Zombies because
Speaker 1: I will bet you they wrote the first Zombies and
Speaker 1: then they cast him. Now they're writing for him, yes,
Speaker 1: And I'll bet you it's the same with the rest
Speaker 1: of the cast too. We're gonna start seeing more of
Speaker 1: their personality in the characters because it's like, oh, now
Speaker 1: we got a voice. Now we know who's going to
Speaker 1: do it. Now we know how far we can push them.
Speaker 1: And so it's like now they're writing for them, so
Speaker 1: that I see the sequels of all these things. Thank
Speaker 1: you everybody for joining us on our park Hopper episode here.
Speaker 1: He was just so incredibly love it, so of course
Speaker 1: we want to thank Trevor Swordsman for joining us. Go
Speaker 1: watch Zombies all that stuff, Go watch his singing in
Speaker 1: the rain. I can't wait to see that, and that
Speaker 1: just kind of old school dance vibe.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm starting to get into it, Sabrina, I for
Speaker 5: it Will.
Speaker 6: I'm so excited you have been pulled to the side
Speaker 6: of the light you are.
Speaker 5: I just love it so much. Thank you, Trevor.
Speaker 1: And our next five five movies are all gonna be
Speaker 1: the Ghost of Buxley Hall, so please join us for that.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna keep watching those movies over and oarth
Speaker 1: I'm hitting. We're doing the Even Stevens movie next, everybody,
Speaker 1: so join us. We'll tell you who our special guest
Speaker 1: is later, but you probably are. She has three names
Speaker 1: and she might have been Kim Possible. Did I give
Speaker 1: it away?
Speaker 2: I think I just give it either way.
Speaker 1: Join us and thank you again Trevor, and we will
Speaker 1: see you next time.
Speaker 2: Bye, everybody.
Speaker 6: Hey,