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November 7, 2024 30 mins

In this episode of When I Grow Up, Sienna interviews rising star Amie Donald, best known for her role as the demonic doll M3gan in the global box-office sensation of the same name and as Maya Monkey in Netflix’s popular series Sweet Tooth. 

Sienna, who dreams of becoming a child actor like Amie, dives into Amie’s experiences, challenges, and advice for young aspiring actors.

Episode Highlights Include:

  • Landing the Role of M3gan: Amie shares the audition process for the role of M3gan, how it transformed her life, and what it feels like to see the movie's worldwide success, including fans dressing as M3gan for Halloween!
  • Behind the Mask and the Viral Dance: Amie describes the challenges of filming in a restrictive latext mask as M3gan and how they created the iconic M3gan dance (which wasn’t originally in the script) that became a massive TikTok sensation.
  • Action on Sweet Tooth: Amie talks about doing her own stunts as Maya Monkey on Sweet Tooth and the incredible CGI effects that her character's tail can do!
  • Balancing Stardom with School: From learning lines to staying on top of schoolwork, Amie reveals what it's like to juggle the demands of being a child actor, her friends’ reactions, and not being nervous delivering lines on high-pressure international sets.

Join Sienna and Amie (and of course Sienna’s Dad Ben) for an inspiring conversation about the world of child acting and the excitement (and hard work!) that comes with it.

About The Show:

Sienna Boyce is 14 years old and constantly tells her Dad, Ben Boyce, what she wants to be when she grows up – an actor, scientist, rugby player, singer, chef or politician. 

Each episode of ‘When I Grow Up’ aims to showcase inspirational females from around Aotearoa and shine a light on them, what it takes to do their job and learn about their story of how they got to where they are so that Sienna can help make up her mind.

This is a podcast to help the teenager in your life dream big.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The heads podcast Network mine never seeing it and this
is my dadmin. Hi, and when I grow up, I
want to be a TikTok start right, or a sports player.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Okay, hang on, people, yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Even a fashion designer. Actually maybe in all the players Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Okay, slow down. Maybe we should talk to some amazing
females who inspire you and who you want to be like.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, and we can find out what they did to
get where they are.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, and let's do it as a TV show.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
No, Dad, only old people watch TV. Let's do it
as a podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I guess that works.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Net. This is When I grow Up.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
We are really excited about this episode of When I
Grow Up, even if it's a little bit confusing for me.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, I guess today is Amy Donald pretty much the
same age as you see in it, So maybe you
don't need to grow up to be like you.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I need to grow down now. While we've been talking
to inspirational woman, we.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Thought it'd be super interesting to talk to a young
girl who, already at a young age, has become a
child start Amy or plays the role of Meghan in
the smash hit horror movie.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's cool to chat about that and I didn't realize
she couldn't see and she couldn't really talk.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I know she had to get late ask gone crazy
and how her and her dance teacher choreographed a dance
which wasn't in the script and it turned into a
huge viral hit going crazy on Tech one.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Hundreds of millions of years for that dance and people
dressed up like Megan all around the world. It must
be wild from a kid from New Zealand to experience that.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yes, And plus Amy is also in the smash hit
Netflix series Sweet Tooth.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
How does she not get nervous?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
And the school little trick she tells us about why
the monkey her character can do. That's pretty cool. I
want to tell on them.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Amy is such a cool person and was such a
great interview, and she proves that you don't have to
wait to you're older to achieve amazing things and for
your dreams.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, she's cool with acting in movies and TV shows
and you doing your podcast see and I can't help
but feel old chatting to you both. You are old excellent.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Enjoy our chat.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hey, dad, When I grew up, I want to be
an actor like Amy Donald Well it's.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Great to here Amy.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Thanks for coming along, No, thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
But I don't how this works because you know, I see,
you know, normally say this to someone and they're a
little bit older than you. This time, you guys are
roughly the same age. How does that work?

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, well, Amy's only fourteen and she's starting a movie.
But I guess I still want to be like you,
even the same age.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
So well, say, pretty incredible you've done. Do you think
about that, you know, at age fourteen, that you've started
not only in you know, Hollywood movie Meghan as well
as Meghan, but also like a big Netflix series or
couple series sweet Tooth.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, I think that I'm so honored to be able
to have done this at such an early age. Like
it's very like amazing that I had the chance to
do it, and I am very grateful. Yeah, that's pretty
incredible for someone at your age.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well, you're ye, it's going to be quite confusing. Well,
there's to say, you're both younger than me, and I'm
probably probably doing a lot better than me, So maybe
I want to be like both of you.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
How that Okay, So let's go back a few years Amy,
before you got into acting and stance.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
You started off as a dancer, right, I did. I
started dancing when I was five years old, and I
just kept dancing. And then my dance teacher actually was
the one who got me started into acting, all right. Yeah.
She was always telling me that I should go for
auditions because when I would perform, I would always have

(03:23):
big facial expressions, and she was always like, you would
be a great actor. And I put it off for
so long, and then she I finally took her advice
and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna try
it see if I like it. And I loved it.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
When you say you put off for so long, you
know you're only fourteen. How long did you put it
off for?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, she was telling me to do it ever since
I was like maybe like eight. Oh right, wow, okay,
so your first time ever going into a dance studio.
They thought you had already learned to dance before, so
you were obviously a little bit of a natural. Yeah.
I remember that day very well because I went after
school and something. Yeah, after pre school I went and

(04:07):
I did my first dance class because they had an
open class. And then my dance teacher, she came up
to me afterwards and she asked me which dance studio
I went to before Norris. I said I'd never danced before,
and she didn't believe me.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Were you dancing? And I don't want to bring your
mom into this right now, but we were reading that.
She was like, we're doing as I do. I complain
to see his sister and the other like we're doing
too much stuff, guys, we need to cut down. I
can't keep driving around being an unpaid uber driver all
the time.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
We're not actually doing too much stuff. It's just like
he thinks of all it looks at the calendar. He's like,
it's so full. So I'm like, if you think of
it day by day, it's not that full.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Like we need to streamline this. She wants through tumbling
or something next. We're talking about this, lad anyway, if
you don't need to hear our problems. But your mom
was almost like, what you need to choose, and dancing
made its way through.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, So me and my brother we both started off
doing show to cut karate.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
And orange bells or a yellow belt for something that.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, my brother got to a black belt. My mum
was a black belt as well, but I got to
a orange belt and then Mom said it's too much
because Campbell was doing rugby and I was doing dances.
And then Mom came up to both of us and
she said that we had to pick which one we'd

(05:27):
like to do more. I picked dance and he picked rugby. Wow,
so your dance went really well. You were the only
key we to win a middle in the Dance World
Cup in Portugal. So how does having a dance background
help you with performing? It definitely helps a lot because
when I was training to go to the Dance World
Cup in Portugal, it was long hours and that really

(05:49):
helped me for on seat, because you know, when you're working,
you're working from long hours. It could be the early
mornings or late nights. But I think that really helped me.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Do you teach me anything cool? I mean not right now,
but afterwards because I'm heading They nowadays.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
So bad just like gritty through I can run over ready.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
And then I tried to do it an embarrassing her
and to assist that, but I didn't. Apparently I didn't
even do it properly because I wasn't doing the eye movement.
But is there anything? Is there one thing I could
do to make myself a little cooler when dancing.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
And you can get into I think you're pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I think you like.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
So you get an audition for me Agan, did you
have any idea what Meghan was about when you were auditioning.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
When I was auditioning, I actually didn't know that I
was going for the role of Meghan. Like I thought
I was going for like a side character or background.
And then when I got a call back, they were like, Okay,
so here's some more lines, and I was like, these
are pretty good. And then when I got the role,
they were like, congratulations all me and I was like.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
No idea that you were going for the role.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Up until that point, I thought I was just going
for like a background care do or something. And then
I got the role and I was thrilled. I was
really excited.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Now can we before we say the name multiple times
of the movie in New Zealand, we seem to say
Megan and then America, it's Meghan, right, And then they
spelled up with a three in the three. Whether they
bought a personalized plate or something a number plate, they
haven't quite been able to get the proper Megan White,
so Meghan is how everyone sees it around the world, right, Megan.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, Meg, he was trying to figure out last night.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
He was like, meet me, it's not about Meghan Markle.
That's the other thing as well as although that could
be my movie idea, so that one.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
So what did you actually have to do for the
Megan audition? They first got me to learn some lines,
so then that was the first audition, and then the callback.
I had to show how I could move like a robot,
which was pretty interesting because I don't know. I just
watched some robot videos see what I could do, and
then I tried it. Mum was helping me. Thank you Mum.

(07:55):
And then that was the second audition, and then the
third callback. I got to meet the director and it
was very very quick. It was in a week. I
landed the role, which was insane because it takes quite
a while sometimes.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
How many auditions had you done before this?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Before this? I had done a couple.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Right, Yes, it's pretty but pretty early on for you.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, it was. This audition was right after I filmed
the first season of Sweet Tick Gotcha. Yeah, so it
was pretty early on on in your little active.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
So for most people listening to this. They've probably never
gone to an audition. What is it like and what do.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
You do well? It depends for what audition you go to.
If it's at home, one, you have to learn your
lines and then you have to act in front of
a camera. But it's really scary in nerve racking when
you have to do it in front of the directors
or the casting agents. That can be a bit scary,
but it's just that's what you should be expecting. But

(08:57):
you should definitely learn your lines before going into.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Into our little room, right and if that's happening, and
then that someone will read the lines off the camera
and then you have to kind of perform it.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
You have to perform to someone that's behind the camera.
Most of the time you can't see them. They'll bring
you into a little room and then you'll meet them
and then you just get straight into it.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Really, do they give you like when you do them?
Do they go oh, that's awesome or they kind of go, oh,
thank you? How much?

Speaker 3 (09:21):
They do give you feedback on what they want to see,
and then if they didn't like the tape that you
just said, they'll say, oh, we will go one more time.
But if you could do it this way, so you will.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Meghan, how did you create that robot movement? Because I've
seen the movie and Megan is scary. When I first
got the role, they I met my movement coaches, Luke
Harker and Jed Brophy, and Jed helped me create what
Meghan has become. He helped me move more like a robot,
and he helped me a lot.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
This is when I grow up.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
I had to do everything with a latex mask, right,
and you could only wear it for thirty minutes at
a time. Yeah, So the silicon mask was it was incredible.
It looks so scary, but when it was on, I
had very limited visions and they had like little plastic
coverings of the eyes. So when I was in it,
I was breathing and then it would fog up so that.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
I couldn't see. So what we would do is that
before we filmed every scene would block it and then
we would rehearse it and I would count my steps
so that when the mask fogged up and I couldn't see,
I knew where I was going.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
So you couldn't actually see, but you're still actually doing it.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Because we were reading it, there was sort of the
hand signals as well, you develop as well to tell
people you probably still breathing, you're still inside the mask.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, we had a couple of different ones just when
I was in the mask, because when I speak, it's
very muffled and you can't hear me very well. And
so we had the thumbs up, which is I'm doing good,
and then had this one which is like, I'm okay,
but it's getting there, and then we'd go one more
take was just one finger up and that's one more take,

(11:11):
and then I have to get out of the mask.
And there's this one.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Which is crossed in front of I am almost that's like, yeah, right,
how many times do you have to use the get
me out? None?

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Thankfully, which is and.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
How quick is the process of getting it off? As well?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
The mask that took like a couple of like twenty
seconds to get off. But the I had a silicon
neckpiece because my skin doesn't look like a robot, so
they had to cover it with a silicon piece and
that took a little while because they glue it to me.
And then I also had silicon gloves that I would wear,

(11:54):
which were very creepy, so wearing something restrictive on your
face for long hours must be really hard. So it
was patience something that you needed to learn. Yes, it's
quite challenging when you've got so much restrictions. But I
feel like dance helped me with my patients a lot
because my dancey cher Kylie, she would always like teach

(12:14):
us the right way and like that. You know, you
have to wait for things, and that helped a lot
on set because also there's a lot of hurry up
and wait where you get ready, you get this, and
then you just have to wait for a bit. But
dancing very much helped with that.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Now, did you have to learn the lines because your
voice has been replaced by another voice actor? Right, but
they still learn the lines.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah. So I had to learn the lines so that
the other actors would know where they were in the scenes.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, and so it who's having laugh there?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
And even though I was in a mask and they
couldn't see my lips moving, which must have been really creepy.
But I so had to learn the lines so that
they knew where they were up to the scene, and
it helped. I think they sent it back to Jenna
Davis back in the States, who did the voice over
and so then she could watch it and say the
lions here, which is pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well, the viral Megan dance that you did down the
hallway when Meghan's on her killing spray, it blew up.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Seen by millions and millions of people, And that wasn't
in the original script. It wasn't. It was never in
the script. And the more I was working with Girard,
he was watching my dancing and how I would move
and there, and then he decided one day he just
came up to me and Mum and he was like,
how'd you feel about doing a dance? I was like,

(13:36):
I love it, way to do it? And then so
then he contacted my dance teacher, Kylie, which I was
very happy and lucky that she was the choreographer because
I thought that we'd already had a bond because I
grew up with her for so long dancing. And then
she got to do the choreography and it took like
one day to come up with the dance. Really, did

(13:57):
you help come up with it as well? Not? I
lift that up to her.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh, it's very cool. It's crazy moments you're like crawling
on the ground and then when you first performed it,
I hear that everyone went went wild for it.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, it was really funny actually, because I did the
take and then I could hear them on like the
radio saying, oh, come watch this, and they were getting
more and more people to come and watch the dance,
and that was pretty funny. So you were so lovely,
But Meginner's not. What is it like playing a killing machine?
It's actually quite cool. I found it quite fascinating going

(14:32):
onto the sets and seeing how they do stuff because
they have like these fake blood and all of this,
and they showed me everything before going on sets, so
I was never scared or anything about it because they
had always shown me. But I actually really loved.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Playing any idea because the movie became like huge and
the dance, you know, hundreds of million people saw the dance.
Its huge On TikTok, everyone's stressing up as yourself character.
Did you have any idea it was going to be
this big?

Speaker 3 (15:02):
I had no idea it was going to be that big.
I actually remember waking up. They didn't tell me that
the trailer was going to come out the day it did,
and then my mom woke me up and she was
like Amy, you got to see this and I was
like what, And then I saw that people were doing
the dance, which I thought was so crazy because I'd
never thought in a million years that people would be
recreating a dancer I did. I thought that was really cool.

(15:23):
And at Halloween seeing people dress up as me and
that is so cool. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
So at the start, were you able to see the
movie because it's horror?

Speaker 3 (15:33):
I was, yeah. They had a unrated version, and then
they had the raided version, which I saw the PG
thirteen one first.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Which is but you would have known anyway. It's going
to be jump still here, Yeah, a little killing spray.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, it's scary.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's not scary on sick. It's not a film a horror,
more a dumb question I should ask that, But it's
not actually scary, you know No.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
I feel like the scariest part is like AFTERDS, they
go on with the spooky music, and I feel like
that just gives it an aeria vibe and it makes
it more scary. But on seit it was a blast.
I was never scared.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Obviously very excited about you, Meghan too. Well. I can't
ask too many questions about it, but did you get
a bit of mask this time tonight?

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Alright, Well, if playing Meghan is not imprison enough, you
are in the Netflix series Sweet Tooth.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
First, you played three characters in season one? Right, I did?
And in season one I played a duck and al
enemy a cat and that was pretty cool. But the
prosthetics were crazy for that.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
They would put me in the makeup chair and I
remember that. I always used to fall asleep when they
were doing the pro and then we'd do a long
day in the prostects and the duck one it sat
on my lip and so it went a little bit
underneath it, so when i'd eat, I'd have to chop
it up so tiny so I could eat.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Were you Wolf? Were you wolf Boy? Was it someone
else on set that was you?

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Right?

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah? Because we staw on your Instagram?

Speaker 3 (17:05):
You're on that? Was it?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Another season?

Speaker 3 (17:07):
That was season three?

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah? Yeah, and you're on like that wolf sort of
costume as well, and they're having to sort of feed
you like they would have trying to get down your
large sort of wolf mask.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah. That was a crazy one because they had there
was a furst suit that I had to wear and
that was very hot. And we filmed it in summer,
which didn't help. But oh well, they put ice packs
and the wolf Boys' backs and stuff so it would
cool us down. But that mask it was crazy because

(17:40):
it would go over the face and you could I
could see a lot, but they would also have to
put like drool in the mask. It was so it
felt like slimy, huge ol. It was not great.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
And then you ended up playing Maya the Monkey.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
I did. I played Maya the Monkey in season two
and three, which was really cool. I loved that character.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
What's it like? Yeah, for many of us, we'll never
be able to go on to a big movie or
a TV series sets. You know, what's it like walking
onto a set? There like so many people around, lots
of trucks, lots of cameras and lights.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, there was so many people the first day. I
always find that the first day on set is always
the scariest because you don't know anyone until you get there.
And then you the more that you spend on set,
the more close and more friendly and more friends that
you make. It's really fun. But when you go on
seat for the first time, there's like big cranes they're

(18:37):
putting up sets, and there's just so many people.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
How do you not get nervous? I mean you obviously
do get it, but how do you not like let
the nerves take over? Like do you have any sort
of good tips?

Speaker 3 (18:47):
I feel like once you just get in there, it's easier.
Like I always just like say to myself, it's just
the first day and then you're gonna be fine. Like
you always just got to remember that it's the first
days the hardest, and then it just gets easier from there. Wow.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Will you do a lot of stunts on wire?

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Is it scary to know that you could get h
I actually never felt scared when I was doing my stunts.
I feel like that was one of my favorite things
that I did because they would I would always feel
so safe because the harnesses that they would put me
in was very like tight and secure, and then they
would always do test, like lift me like that much

(19:27):
off the ground just to make sure that everything's okay,
and then we would do like pull me up into
the rig and then put me up high and then
jump and it was really fun. But I never felt
scared because I always felt really safe.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
What's the caller stunt you've done? I and a P
thirty for more than thirty minutes. Just not talking about it, right,
But what's the cooler stunt you've done.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
My favorite stunt I feel like would either be doing
a fight scene with Jimma and making that was really
fun at or and Sweet Tooth. I got to jump
off of like a big I don't know, I can't
remember what it was. I think it was like a
big rock. And because my other monkey can climb, she
was at the top of the building and then I

(20:15):
got to jump off it and that was really fun.
This is when I grow up. So my the monkey
doesn't talk, but she does sign language. Is that also
something else you learned? Yeah? I on set we had
people who learned to like sign language. They knew it
fully and then they'd teach us, And I thought that

(20:36):
was so cool because it Actually I've loved learning it
because when I go overseas and I got to conventions
when there's deaf people, I love to communicate with them
in like and it's so cool because whenever they see
that I learned sign language, they get really excited about it,
which I think is so cool.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
So you've learned sign language, you're learning lines? Are the
good skin that you've learned along the way to try
and memorize stuff.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yes. Always. I feel like dancings also helped you because
when you're learning dancers, you have to keep it in
your head to remember them. And I feel like that's
helped a lot with lines because sometimes there are a
lot of lines. But what I always do is like
if I as soon as I get them, I like
read over them over and over again just to get
it into my head. And another thing that I do

(21:24):
is that always do something else while you're learning lines,
because that makes it stick in your head more like
you can play with a ball or something. Just do
anything when you're reading lines to help you keep it
in your head.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Okay, Well, Robert Downey Jr. And his wife are also
the producers.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Have you met them? I have not said, but I
would really loved to meet them.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
But wow, have you met famous people or have they
reached out through through being and Megan and stuff? Because
you've got a conventions, right, people like line up get.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
I thought it was really cool because I'm a huge
fan of Stranger Things and I met Susie for Strange
Things and I really loved her. Yeah, she was amazing
and she actually knew me from Megan. When I went
to see her meet her for the first time, she
recognized me, and I thought that that was really cool
because I, like, I look up to her. She's so

(22:16):
amazing and she knew who I was, which is really cool.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
So it must be tough balancing school work and the
hours acting I had.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
At one point, you got a tutor on set to
help you. Yes, on every job that you do, there
is a tutor on set. They help you because you
have to have a certain amount of hours that you
do schooling when you're on seit So when you're acting
and you're there.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Like sitting, so they'll you go and do some school work.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, if they're sitting up a camera shot or anything
like that. When they you're not on sit, they'll put
you into school. Yeah, yeah, they'll almost sit school. Yeah,
they put you into school and then you would learn
stuff and then you'd go back and film and then
you would have like ten hours of school that you
had to get done, which was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Is it almost harder or easier, because I mean, it's
probably getting one on one teaching. But at the same time,
I've got a scene coming up.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
I'm going to remember my life. Me and Violet when
you were we do school together, which was really good,
but it was one on one, Like he'd help us
individually with us stuff because I'm a year older than her,
so we had different yeah, and so then he would
come and it was one on one. So that was
really helpful. But also when you know that you've got

(23:28):
a big scene, you have to remember loads of lines
or you have to be acting or the evil or anything.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Because you were homeschool for a bit. Now you're back
to regular school.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, as soon as I finished filming Megan, I went
into homeschool because after lockdown, I just thought it would
be easier to stay homeschooled and do filming, and I
thought that would be easier. But now I've gone back
to school and I think it's the best decision. I
love seeing my friends. Yeah, you work a lot, long

(24:02):
weeks and long days, and you must miss out on
a lot in your friends. Is that what it takes
to succeed. Well, whenever I have like time off, I
always make time for them. Like my friends always come
over on the weekends if I'm not filming, or I
go over to the house. It's it's a bit challenging
when you're filming, but you always have some days off

(24:24):
and I always make time for them.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
There does that kind of help you keep your I
guess and somebody's grounded?

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Definitely?

Speaker 2 (24:30):
And what about chores? From a dad point of view,
I want to know, like you're doing some Jaws and
get off and it was huge.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
No, I still have to do right.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well, how has your life changed since being in movies
and series?

Speaker 3 (24:45):
I always think that it's really crazy when people come
up to me and they go you and me. I'm like, yeah,
because I really didn't expect to get that after filming Megan,
because I was I was actually in a movie theater
going to watch a movie the first time I got recognized,
and I thought that that was pretty crazy. But I

(25:08):
feel like that's changed a lot. But besides from that,
my friends still see me as Amy, which is really good.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Well, what would you say to someone listening who dreams
of being an actor or performer?

Speaker 3 (25:19):
I think that they should give it a go, Like,
no matter if you don't get the role that you
really want or you do, it's amazing. Just give it
a go. And if you don't like it, that's cool.
If you do keep going and just be prepared to
get a lot of nose before you get a yes,
because I've done loads of auditions that I didn't get
the role for, but there's always something waiting for you

(25:41):
to keep to go, because.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
That's probably a big thing. You're right. You only hear
about the roles that people do get with people auditioning
all the time, and sometimes it's not even about your
I'm saying it like I'm an expert, but it seems
it's not even about the performance. Sometimes it's about if
you're the right look or the family or things that
they're going to.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Put so many things behind because if you're too young,
they won't have you, if you're too old, if you
don't look like the person they've cast for the month.
Like it always comes down to that, but it's not
always because they didn't like the way that you acted.
It was also because when casting, they're very particular on

(26:19):
who they want or how they look.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Before you go some quick fire questions to find out
if I really want to be like you this or that.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
TikTok or Instagram TikTok.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
To these questions, nottok.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Two weeks later, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Watching a movie or a TV series.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
That's tough, because a hard one.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
I think I enjoy movies more because I find it
hard sitting down.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
To watch.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Online shopping or in store shopping. Oh, that one's a
really hard one. I think I'd like to say in
store shop, yeah, definitely, or generals general really stunt like
or special effects. Oh, I'm going to say both.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, you like the special effects.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Spending or saving. Playing a villain or playing a hero.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'm going to say villain. They are more fun.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
It's pretty interesting to say how much fun it would
be fun because it's not real life. You know, he
probably thinks you cannot do in real.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Action scenes or emotional scenes. Oh, that one's a really
good fun. I like the action ones because there's so
much fun. But emotional scenes, I feel like it's a
lot of work to do emotional scenes. But I'm gonna
say I like action scenes. Yeah. Bubble tea or a
frappuccino tea. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Wearing animal ears or wearing a tail an?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
What is because you have a towel, you know, monkey?
Is it annoying or is it.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
They put like I would always have this plate that
would sit on my back and it was attached to
like a vest, so I'd wear that underneath the costume
every single time, and they would attach it and then
they had remote controls to control the tail. Oh my god,
already cool.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Moving.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah, it was like, oh my goodness. And on seit
we would play a very fun game, which is see
what my tail can pick up. So I'd stand there
and then the tail would grab like but na, No,
it was yeah, because they would control it and so
they'd be able to see what they could pick up.
It was pretty good, very good.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
And finally doing the Megan viral dance all this podcast.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Okay, say one from apparent question sweet tooth or savory
snack A good healthy snack?

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Oh, that one's hard. I think I'm gonna go sweet.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Time a healthy snack?

Speaker 3 (28:58):
All right, me, Thank you so much for your time.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
It's incredible what you've achieved at such a young age,
and I can't wait to see what you do next.
We normally ask people what they would tell the younger.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Self, but we're the same age. What do you want
to be when you grow up? What's your dream? Well?
I would really like to continue acting, but if I
don't want to do that anymore, For some weird reason,
I think I would really like to become a nurse
because I don't know, I feel like we need more
of them, and I feel like it would be a

(29:29):
really cool job.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
In some ways. You've already clocked a yeah as well,
you know, but a great you know. I can't wait
to see, As Sen said, what you do nexts be
so fun hanging out. So thanks for that, Thanks.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
So much, Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
That was such a fun chat with Amy and was
super cool to find out what it was like to
be in a huge international movie had a Netflix series.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
You can see why you want to be like Amy.
And I also still really want one of those tales
like My the Monkey would be nice.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, I don't think you would look the best with
the tail.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
I remember weird in the office.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
You're walking the dog.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Amy shows that you can achieve your dreams from anywhere
in the world, and that could happen at a young age.
And if she's done this already by age fourteen, I
can't wait to see what she's done.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, I want to also be like Amy. You know,
for Halloween, I can dress up like a scary robot
like Meagan, what do you reckon. Do you think it's
too late to ask Amy to borrow the costume?

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Maybe? I think I might break it.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, but it's not too late to subscribe to when
I grow up. So here the next inspirational gifts.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Oh nice segue.
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