August 11, 2025 • 57 mins
We're falling for CheeChee! Chrissie Fit joins Will and Sabrina to talk about the "Teen Beach Movie" franchise, where she was when she was auditioning for the movie and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Thank you so much for joining us on this par
copper episode of Magical Rewind.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And boy, do we have a guest for you today.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I always say the guests are amazing, but then I
always turn out to be right, because our guests are amazing,
and we've got another one for you today. Not only
is she going to be talking to us about I'm
going to say it the TB what was it, the TBCU,
the Teen Beach Cinematic Universe, but she is also going
to be talking about one of my favorite franchises of all.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Time, Pitch Perfect. Yes, please help us. Welcome Chrissy fit.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Hi. Hi, Hello, guys, thank you for joining us so fun. No,
thanks for having me. I'm like nerding out right now.
I'm like, we're scar My Gigi, scar.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, we just we just finished our recap of Team
Beach two, or, as one of the fans has called it,
the end of the TBCU or the Teen Beach Cinematic Universe.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh my gosh, I didn't know that that was.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We didn't either, We didn't either.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
But it is like a micheal but also like really
sad the end. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's uh, how
I don't know do. I want to ask what you thought.
I feel like I heard his his episode I Love My,
I mean, I love you guys. I love this whole premise.
(01:43):
It's so so fun and hearing Johnny talk about team
each one was like really really nostalgic and the whole
point of your podcast. I guess we just yeah, OK,
But I know Will you don't like musicals.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So I'm getting I am getting there.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
He is on the up and up and literally is
now able and it makes me really proud. He's able
to like dissect it like songs and dances and stuff.
He's able to really like he's joined in. I at
first got nervous.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's true. Now I'm getting there.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
But this movie was the start of you because he
has a hard time with musicals of like people just
knowing the dances and just like, you know, did you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Get together first as characters? Because you just broke into
song for no reason? Why did you.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Break it the way that the movie's done, And it
leans into that like cheeky idea of like a musical
and often you know it's it's like this was one
of his like kind of breakthrough ones. And then Zombies
was the one that like we got it, we.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Got but no, so teen Beach one I gave a
very high rating. Two it was one of my higher ratings.
And then we just finished teen Beach two and it
was so good until the very end.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Till the very end, and this is why it hasn't
seen of her.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Were just like, can you tell us about that actually,
because we were told by one of our producers that
it was actually kind of a controversial thing within the
fans that loved the first movie, they had a lot
to say about how the second one ends. Do you
remember all of that going on?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, yeah, I definitely do, because like even us like
making it and reading it, I think like some of
us were like, wait, is this gonna gel with like
our demographic, Like we're trying to do inception suddenly and
dream within a dream. I'm like, I don't know if
if kids are gonna love this. But then it was
kind of exciting too because we were like, we're just
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giving them a little something extra, something like different. It
doesn't have to end super happy, no, but that we
were wrong, it should end. You think about it, like
at that age, you haven't lived a lot of your life,
so it's like if you if suddenly you forget a
(04:02):
very important relationship in your life, it's like life or death.
It's like, yes, forget this boyfriend that was so important
to me, and even though we're meant to be and
we will still meet each other again, it's like then
it feels like for not like everything that happened. So
I understood, I understood kind of like the disappointment about it,
(04:24):
but I was just like I was hoping that we
would get a third one to like redeem ourselves, you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Know, explain what was got.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, well that's I mean, did it read differently on
the page than it showed on the screen because they
had they introduced the concept very quickly of well, wait,
if they don't make it back to the sixties and
do the movie, we may never meet ye, And then
like five seconds later, the characters make it back to
the sixties and make it to the movie, but then
(04:52):
they don't remember each other.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, which what that was always confusing because it was like,
wasn't that the point? Wasn't that why they were trying
to get back right? But because you know, we've had
we had conversations about it, and I'm also like a writer,
so I was like how was making sense adding up
And it's because she had an experienced Leila played brilliantly
(05:17):
by Grace Fipps, like such wonderful God, she had a
different experience in the real world. When they came back
into the movie world, she kind of changed the movie
and her role in it. So it was no longer
Wet Side Story and now became Leila, Queen of the Beach.
The movie didn't exist, So I'm like, you should have
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kept them in the real world. Yeah, this kind of happened,
but you know, they still met because of that movie
at the end, so I think that it it kind
of kind of worked. Wow, am I Like, am I
like talking badly about a movie.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That No, we're just trying to figure because to.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Be honest, Yeah, to be honest, like everything else like
leveled up, Like with like the music. There's two songs
that like we weren't like one hundred percent, but like
the music was good. The routines that you have. This
choreographer did such magical things with these routines, the visuals
of it, and that was one of my favorite things
(06:22):
from the first one was like the the use of
the surfboards and the towels and the balls and like
there's so many great pop work and then also like
seeing like those aerial shots where they're just fun visuals,
like everything looks so great. This is really kind of
the only like dip where you're just going like wait, what,
Like this is really it just the end. Everything else
(06:44):
was great, you know. So it's not like you're talking terribly.
It's like one part of it. And unfortunately for me, Listen,
I'm forty years old. I have lived my life and
there are tons of things that I've gone through and
I still need that happy ending. That's what I'm coming
to Disney for. I'm coming to watch a movie to
have a good ending at the end, to cheer me
up and make me feel like everything is okay.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, you nailed it. That's one hundred percent. Like I
think you know you want you tune in because you
want to feel this joy and this happiness and the
world is so joyful. Like what I really really loved
about the first one was the fact that we spent
most of our time in the movie in the sixties,
right place where you know the kids don't they don't
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know that world.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, you introduced it to them, Like the styles, the choreography.
You introduced it to them in a fun way.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
The fashion, the you know, and that was like really
fun for for the kids to see, then fun for
their parents, fun for their grandparents. Like it was more
of like a you know, I don't know, like a
family event, and being in the real world just kind
of made it a little bit more serious at times too,
like everything was kind of just like a little not
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as up up as like the first movie. But I
I had such a blast even though I was literally
there guys for like two weeks. Really, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I How long was your rehearsal process? Then?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I didn't have one?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You didn't have one?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
No, you have a big number.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
How could you not have a rehearsal you.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Have like a solo number, Sabrina, This was like panic
attacks happening. But I was doing Pitch Perfect two at
the time, when well, you like, because we don't, you know,
they don't.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
We're not even gonna get into pitch Perfect too yet.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
We're not even gonna get there yet, because I am
a disgustingly massive Pitch Perfect fan.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yay, oh my god, I'll do your lines if you want.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So we'll talk about that in a bit, but yeah,
we got to do teen Beach first, and then I'm
going to geek out, No, you were.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You were working that movie during the same time as
this movie was being done. Was that the reason why
you weren't able to do rehearsing?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Then yeah, yeah, yeah I was, you know, and I
obviously I couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in
the Pitch Perfect franchise, so of course, yeah, I had
to do that, and they kind of worked around me
and figured it out. But that meant like, I didn't
do any of the dance rehearsals and I'm not I'm Cuban,
so I can move, but I'm not a dancer and
(09:23):
I'm okay looking out because you know, I remember the
first one the like it was very difficult for me,
so I hadn't And then they said, oh, on top
of that, we might give you a number, which is
a whole other story. The mite was just very very interesting,
but and I was like, oh, no, what am I
going to do? I really want to make sure that
this works out. So they would send me videos of
(09:47):
the choreography. Okay, okay, on my downtime from filming. I
would have to like.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's like homework.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, it was homework.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Well, and for somebody who's yours, I mean I I
feel like you're kind of throwing it out a little
too easy. Not a dancer, because you do a great
job dancing, but for somebody who doesn't have a lot
of training, learning off of a video is significantly different
than having a choreographer sit there and teach you step
by step. Like that is a hard thing to do.
It's a different It's like it would be like some
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me trying to learn how to like read plays for
football off of a video, like I need someone, I
need someone to break this down for me. I don't
know what the hell's going on? What are these ex'es?
What are these o's? Like you know, jeez, that's hard, wow, Chrissy.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And then I was just like, wait, am I what
arm do I actually do? Because it's like on the
video this way and you know.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, are you mirroring it or are you doing like
they're left you're right, like oh wow yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And then like I would have to ask some of
the Pitch Perfect girls like hey, can you can we
do this together because.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Like it's okay, wait, you're breaking breaking my fan brain
So you're on the set of Pitch Perfect Too with
the other cast members and they're helping you with your
choreography for Teen Beach Too.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That's wow. That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And like one moment, like they hadn't seen it obviously
those movies because it's they're not in their demographic or whatever.
So they're like, what are we helping you practice for?
And I'm like, it's a Disney Channel movie all this stuff.
They're like, we're having a movie night, We're gonna watch it. Yes,
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So you watch Teen Beach together?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Oh that is so that's what I leave my house for.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we watched some of it. We didn't
watch the whole thing. We were more hanging out together
than like watching it. But it was just like so
fun and they were so so supportive. So it was
like I had the dancers in Puerto Rico like supporting
me and like sending me videos, and then I had
the Bella's basically being like we're.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
All even you gotta get out of here with that story.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I love you too.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Okay, wait freaking now, because I'm like, oh my god,
I'm barely remembering this. Pitch Perfect choreography, and now I.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Have overload overload. Oh man, you're.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Gonna go into like my gegy accent everything long, Like
what is happening?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Oh yeah, you had a whole set, you had a
whole different accent and Pitch Perfect too, so you're yeah,
it's you're going character to character is great a voice actor?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
All of a sudden, I know, I know. Okay, So
I have a question.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
We've we've got, we've gone, we'll get more into Team
Beach and we'll get more into Pitch Perfect.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
But for you, how did you become an actor and
a singer?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
What?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Where? Where did you start? And how did you decide
to get into the beginning?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I know, we were so excited. We're so excited we
jumped in. We've got to figure out how you what's
your origin story? How did you get here? You know?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But I'm so excited about you guys too, And I
have to like take a moment, see because you know,
Cheetago in my I was already in college when it
came out, but my little cousin was the age of it,
so I used her as an excuse to watch him, like, Oh,
I'm just you know, I'm babysitting a like then we
went to Barcelona like ten years later and we're like,
(13:18):
oh my god, we're in Cheetah Girls too. This is
it's like, really, did you.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Guys get to go to like Parkway? And did you
see any of the places that we filmed in?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Oh, that's right, choreography, there was the steps.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Did you guys go down the steps next to the dragon? Yeah,
it's fans do it and they send me. They just
have no idea how much it means to me watching
fans like reenact that whole part of Strut.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
It's so cool, it's so it's so fun, it's so adorable.
I mean I feel that a little bit with Team Beat,
how like impactful it is because you watch it so
young and it becomes your childhood and stuff, which, mind you,
I was not a child when I watched the movie,
so I don't know what my excuse was.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Hey, I'm almost fifty and I watched it last night,
so don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And obviously boy means world. That was like, that was
my childhood.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That was oh, thank you, yes.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
And I was always like Eric Matthews is the best
one on the show.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Don't tell anybody else, but I'm texting writer and Danielle
right now hang up, like.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Comedic timing and like physical comedy. It was like out
of this.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
World and a really good looking cast, like give me
a break, Like who oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Because the Cheetah Girls cast and the Teen Beach cast
and the Pitch Perfect cast were all ugly people.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Well that's very sweet, thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But I started acting, singing like as kid, you know,
at school plays and doing all the things, and and
then I realized, like in middle school, that I can
marry the two with musicals. And I was like, oh,
this is like perfect, and so I just started doing that.
And I went to Florida International University and I studied
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theater there, and then I got put on probation. Wow,
this is scandalous. I don't think anybody else.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yes, yes to us.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I'm a really good person, but wow, really good people
say that I actually always followed the rules and was fine.
But I was in two shows that semester and I
didn't have enough production hours. But I didn't have time
to do all of the production. It was something so silly.
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I was like three hours short, and they were like, well,
you're not going to be able to perform in any
of the show's next semester because you didn't fulfill your hours.
And I was like, why am I in school for this?
And then I can't do the thing? Yeah, and something
told me I didn't need a degree to do acting. Yeah,
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I'm out, and I moved. I moved to la and
and just got really lucky pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well, I mean, it was your first it was your
first job. Was Zoe wan on one, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
It was Zoe one on one? I had one line.
I think I said, like he took the last moon bar.
I think I said that's what I said, because you
don't forget your first line. That was like my first,
my first thing. And I do remember like getting in
the trailer for hair and makeup and being like I
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made it like so delusional and so little, like.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
No, but it's so big, like it's going on the
best set for the first time. And especially if you
get like a part and you you luck out and
get your own trailer or like what like the first
time you get all of those things that you see
growing up and that you dream of, it's huge. It's huge.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, that's so cool. Since I was a kid, but
you know, my parents were like no, you know, Cuban
immigrant parents that were like, you got to go to school.
You can't just like leave and do because I I
kind of thought, oh, if I go even just to
Orlando and I'm on Nickelodeon, like I'll do it, I'll
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be famous. So it used to be like always I'll
be famous. Now I'm like, oh, but I just like
and I'm now really really grateful that I didn't because
I had you know, everyone's journey is the way it's
supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, and then I did.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
End up playing a teenager when I'm in my twenties, so.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It was fine, we all did. We all did. That's
the way it did.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So then you were because that whole area around there
in Florida. That's where I started at Nickelodeon in New York,
and then we opened the studio down there in Florida.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So that oh, it was the greatest. The greatest thing
in the world is the coolest.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
So that was like the kid, that's what you wanted
to do as a kid was was you wanted to
be on Nickelodeon or you wanted to do some of
these things. So then did you if you had to
pick one at the time as a kid, I know
you found that you were able to marry him, But
did you would you rather have been a singer than
an actor or other way around?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be
a singer. I wanted to be like Selena.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Or Vinni bum bums that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I used to sing Whitney Houston like I'll Always Love
You in third grade. Oh, and I had like a
whole act, Like I had the costume and I would
like in the Sax solo, I would like take off
the cape and just walk around and like I don't
even think I was good. Like I also, like, you know,
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ten years old, really belting this this song out. But
I was so committed and so confident. Yeah where did
that girl go? But you know, so and everyone just
was like, oh, this girl is gonna make something because
I was just so determined to do so. I think
when I was younger, I really wanted to be a singer.
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And then you know, now I'm like that dream is
over and so I'm and I also get to do
it in movies, which is so wonderful, and in voiceover work,
which is awesome. Too, because I can see some different
characters and it doesn't like, you know, the life of
(19:32):
a pop star feels like a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, I'll say, yeah, it feels like a ton.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
But yeah, the the industry is is rough. It's a
it's a you know, it is a very cutthroat industry,
and so it's it's tough, and like you said, like
that was what I loved was that I was able
to sing, but I was doing it in movies and
I was dancing. I was doing like all of the
things that I loved to do. So it's nice to
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find those roles that you can you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I loved how you had like such a specific
character in teen Beach, like so cute. It wasn't like
just kind of regular teenager, right, like you had your
whole like your vibe, your accent, like everything was like
comedic with so many of you guys on the camera.
(20:21):
It was so good. It was fun. It looked like
it was a really fun character to do.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
It was really fun. And that was like a big
risk because the audition for that was basically like Chee
Chee a loyal member of the Rodents and Butch's you know,
best friend or something, not girlfriend, but one of like
like Butch's gang or crew. Later on we were told
we can't say gang.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's about right. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But then I was like, what am I going to do?
So I started watching all these shows or these movies
that it was based on, and I realized, like, oh,
these these like bad guys. They all have these New
York accents of course for no reason.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
And leather jackets for no reason.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
This is hilarious in the dead heat of a beach.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I'm gonna try something. And so I went in and
I did this voice, and I had my hair up,
you know, not like it was in the movie, but
I did the whole bit, and I had the laugh
even in the audition, and I remember they were like
silent after and I was like, oh, really messed up there.
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I took a risk and that was not a good one.
And then after that they were just like that was great,
And you know, it was a little another inside. I
don't know what I'm supposed to say or can't say
or not, but like they didn't really want me at
first because I was old to them. You know, I'm
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not an actual teenager. I think I played chee Chee
for the first movie at twenty eight years old, okay,
supposed to be like seventeen or whatever, and all the
people were there, they were like, actually fifteen sixteen year olds,
so it's like, I don't know how it's gonna read
or whatever. And then eventually they were like, well, you know,
she's actually she's doing something different that we can't find
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with other.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, so they'll cast you.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
We've we've interviewed a number of people now that said
the same thing, that are like, I was twenty nine
when I walked in, but I didn't tell them that
I just did.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And then they're like, well, well, you got to do
school on the set, and they're.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Like, I have a doctorate, I don't need to do
the three hours of school work.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah. So in your first audition then, was it just acting?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Did you have to sing and dance in the first
audition or anything like that, or was that just come
in and let's see what you can do.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Well, it was it was doing the scene and then
had to sing a little bit and saying rolling in
the Deep by Adele That was like my pong alway
is to say I did it for Pitch Perfect too
as well. Thanks Adele. I was just like And then
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after that they were like, oh, we got to see
if you could dance, and I was like, do we really? Yeah?
So I went in and I did the thing, and
and it was did you like was.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
It like because we've had a mix of it. Mine
was like, bring another song in that you can dance too.
So I just literally like had to like improv in there.
But then I know for Zombies, I think they had
like a full like dance audition portion of their process,
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like where they went there was a choreographer that taught
them stuff and they watched from there, and I think
that's the same way with high school musical as well.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah. No, I went into the dance studio where they
were already rehearsing. Okay, I think it was me and
then Jordan Fisher was the last one to get cast,
so okay, second to last to get cast, and so
like cast members were rehearsing and everything.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh wow yeah, And I was like, you booked it
and then like immediately went into rehearsals.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Or immediately like I I didn't even have any time
in LA to rehearse with the cast and the dancers.
It was like all right, we got to go to
Puerto Rico, like for real, and I was like okay.
So I went into the studio and they were just like, well,
we don't really need for you to do a whole dance,
but we're just gonna show you. These couple eight counts
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should be really easy. Christopher Scott, who you know, is
an amazing choreographer. He did in the Heights and Wicked,
and it's actually fun because right now people are doing
side by side of Wicked, like the song Loathing and
cruising for a Bruisin, So it was similar, you know,
you could see his style.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Right, Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
And I was like, oh yeah, a couple a counts cool,
and it's just like once three, I was like, can
we just do one eight count because a three count?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Let's do a three count? Is that a thing?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
A three count? Because that.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh my god, he was like a one and two
and a three in it. Hit it? Can it drop it?
Like it's hot right now, Like, oh my gosh, it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Was like four eight counts. But because there was like
a one and a two, yeah, these are this is
like one hundred and fifty five count like it's happening.
And because his movements are very very quick. Yeah, I know,
like I did my whole third grade Whitney Houston with
(25:46):
the cake thing, like just was confident in the movement,
even though I was like, I don't know what I'm
actually doing and it read like Chee chi anyway, because
like she doesn't really care. And so I just had
to do one dance audition. I know other people were
doing more and trying more and whatever, but I was
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just like, this are gonna get guys. It's not like
it's not gonna work out. And they were like, you
know what, We're gonna take a chance on you kid
adults that we like, all right, And we went to
Puerto Rico and I had like maybe seven panic attacks
during dances, and so that's why in the second one,
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when I had none of the dance rehearsal, I was like,
this is gonna be impossible.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And they give your own number too, like no.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
And that I was like that we have to have
you know, right, I think it happened, and like Disney
didn't know if it was gonna work just because they
were like, we don't know if you could sing in
Chee Chee's voice or if it's gonna sound good if
it's gonna sound a little grading and I was like, okay,
thanks God. And then they were just like my agent
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at the time was like, why don't you sing something
and we send it to them in the voice and see,
you know, idea proved to them that you could do it.
And I was like again, in my hotel room in
Baton Rigeallysiana, I went into the bathroom on my MacBook
and opened up Garage Man and just saying, there are
worse things I could do, and it's just and I'm
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thinking back on it, it's like so funny, like they
have a boy things I can funny right Like.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I was just like this could work, yes, and that
what a great song choice to do as well, like
for the character. That makes so much sense.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Wow. I thought it was good. And then my agent
was like, not that song? Well what because she was
she knew that like the song was gonna be more upbeat,
so got it? I did, uh Tina Turner rolling in
on the over okay fun which was really really fun,
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and they heard it and they were like, Okay, I
think this is gonna work. I recorded the song in
Baton Rouge while filming and and then when we got
to set, they were like, we don't know if this
is going to be in the movie.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Oh oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I just like tried to prove myself singing it. Yeah,
b Jordan Fisher is an incredible singer performer, Like he
needs to have this moment too. See. I was like,
I learned this dance in between other dancings.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
You know, and I do know what I went through
to prep for this come on of.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Physical comedy, Like I wanted to be thrown off the stage.
I wanted to do all the stuff. And also, you know,
not to get like super heady about it or whatever,
but I was just like, we're the only two characters
of color in this movie, right, have a moment where
little kids can see us and be like, oh wow,
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they could be the lead singer of the song. They
could have this moment to shine. So really, really that's
where me being an adult helped. And I was just
like really pushing for it, and they were like, okay,
we're we're gonna give you half the day. So we
had to film it before lunch, all of it, the
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whole thing, and I was it was so stressful because
you know, it's a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, with no rehearsal in four hours to shoot it awesome.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Yeah, yeah, at.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Least they were setting you up for success, right right.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
But yeah, Jordan and I were like, we're going to
make this happen and like I have to, like can't. Boyd,
who was a phenomenal dancer, also helped me all like
you know, time there. He didn't really have to stay
as long as he did, and he was there just
to like like do it in front of me and whatever.
So I'm so happy that it ended up. We got it.
(30:14):
It was in the movie. Yeah, sound of Little Kids
that are just like I lot, that's my favorite song.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It was because it's a great bridge to the first
movie and a great callback to the falling off the
stage and all that. But it's also the idea that
it's like, all right, let's sing a song because none
of us are happy, So Gigi get up there and sing.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I mean, it is very funny now it was. Am
I wrong?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Though?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So if if I'm staring at the screen, the woman
to your oh yeah right, your your number one backup singer?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Okay, yes, no wait, So to.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
The if I'm looking at the screen, be to your left,
Who's who's you know, it's it's you in the middle,
and then you have the three singers on the side.
The first one was she also one of the one
of the other choreographers of the of the movie.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yes, she was.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
It's a sat choreographer, Jessica Keller, and she played struts.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yes, okay, so I knew I was right about that.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And she was also very helped everyone.
Everyone was just like rallied and they were like, we're
gonna make this number happen. He said. It also was
a nice bridge.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
It was like it was there wasn't a ton of
of of bridges I feel like in the movie going
back to the beginning, you.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Know, because obviously ye yeah it was with best summer ever.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yes, and and it's like, yeah, I Wills had that
stuck in his head.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Two days away from just drinking myself unconscious to get
the song out of my head.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
But there wasn't a lot of like like homage to
like the the world that this micro world that we
all fell in love with within the first movie. There
wasn't a lot of going back and forth. So it
was perfect. It was really I'm so I can't imagine
the movie without it, Like it's weird for them to
even have thought that that would have that it wasn't needed,
because it, definitely I feel was needed.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
There were so many big numbers that you know, they
wanted to have more time with, and like that last number.
I think there was one day we were there on
set for like eighteen hours, which was insanity.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
What was it for a number?
Speaker 3 (32:33):
It was got to be me. It was the last number.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, the last one in the pickup trucks.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
No no, sorry, the one in the in the dance.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Where he oh yeah, okay, yes yeah, he says, give
me the kick drum.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah yeah yeah. And I'm curious which songs did you
guys hate that one? That one?
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yeah, just the song, It just value of it and
the dance that was it was itself. I wasn't a
big fan of the frown, and there was an appalling
situation that happened with one of those poor dancers. I
just feel so bad. It's this part with the with
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the smile right the frown upside down and they have
this poor dancer like no, no wait. I felt so
bad for her, Like it could have just been boys
like it because they're in pants. It wouldn't have looked
you know what I mean. The visual was great, but
like this poor dancer, you know, she's in a cheerleading costume,
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like you know, she's wearing a skirt and you have
her butt in the air like that. It was so
appalling to me. I couldn't get over it. So it
really it really went down on my list.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
You're like, there's no frown because I would be.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
So mortified, Like, yeah, mortified if all of a sudden,
like I didn't really realize, or even if they were, you.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Know, it's gonna recognize her. In all fairness, we're not
going to know it could have been me. You wouldn't
have known.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
I know, she's all over that routine like she is.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
You can see her all over and she's.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Got this cute little red bob like she's adorable. You
definitely like your eye goes to her. She's great, and
then oh my god.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I just a lot of times, like dancers, they're they're
so vital to the whole thing. Yes, treated like with
the respect that they deserve, because there are bodies through
tor like.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Yes, and they're always down, like they're always down, Like, oh,
you want me to like climb up that thing and
then jump off. Of course I'm gonna do that. Like
they're always so so good on sets that that kind
of stuff is like she could have just gotten replaced
with someone. There's someone one of the guys that was
over there and crossing legs and moving over like just
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hanging out. Yeah, Chris cross Applesauce could have been the
person that was on the back with you.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Anyway, Going back to Teen Beach one, so it was
one of the biggest premieres of the Channel, and I
think it was the largest cable movie of the year
when it came out. I think came out twenty thirteen,
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and then it wasn't beaten on the Channel until the
second one came out, which is the thing that beat them.
So my question is, with the popularity of the first one,
how much did your life change before teen Beach to
after Teen Beach?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
It was it was interesting. I have an interesting like
story because I was waiting tables for like seven years
and I was just like, even though I would work
every so often, it was just you know, you still
had to have this like job. And so I did
Team Beach and it didn't come out like we filmed
it in twenty like two years before it came out.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Oh really, it's like twenty eleven.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Oh wow, the spring of twenty eleven, and like I
was like when is this movie gonna come out? And
so I had to like really stretch whatever. I got
paid for a while, and eventually you're just like, you know,
I got to get back to work. So I went
back to the restaurant job, where I had this very
(36:18):
like dramatic exit and like wanted to give my you
know ah, and I was like, I'm I'm a star
now on ten and like my boss was just like,
you paid for that apron, you could keep it right, okay,
And then I had it the apron because I had
(36:41):
to go back and work at the restaurant. Then teen
Beach premieres, and now suddenly people are coming to the
restaurant and they were like, wait, my daughter just saw you,
you know. And I was like, oh gosh, what's gonna happened? Like,
what's happening now? Because people I was starting to get recognized,
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and then you know, you get that residual check. Wow.
I'm being like really candid with you guys.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I am here for every ounce of it.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
This is gonna be out in the world. So it
was like, whatever, people need to know, people need to
know the real true, right. I got a residual check
that was like substantial because you know, Disney Channel plays
it over and over and over and over again, and
I was really like goodbye again and I'm here again,
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and and then shortly after that I got Pitch Perfect too,
and then just because there was it was so successful,
like teen Beach Movie, and even Elizabeth Banks when I
like auditioned, she was like, oh yeah, my nieces and
nephews have watched the movie, like they know about it
and they are freaking out that like Chee Chee is
a bella.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
I was like, what, this is insane and really really
flattering and awesome. So it did change, but not immediate.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
That's interesting. I feel like that's the longest we've heard
from interviews of the time from the end of the
y they pop them out the premiere like our first
one was like a year, but I feel like everyone
else is like, oh yeah, it came out like four
months after, like they like whip them out fast. That's crazy.
Two years.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
I'm wondering I have a very terrible memory, which is
great for an actress. But it was a long time
because we filmed it and then it was like, oh,
we can't like have it come out this summer because
it's not ready, So we had to wait for the
following summer.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Right, and it has to be a summer because it's
a summer movies. So what's the what was the timeframe
in between that then between the first movie then when
the talk started happening about Team Beach two. What was
how long after it premiered? I guess after it showed
on the channel makes a huge splash. Was it like
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instant like we're getting the game, We're doing another one.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, basically, like immediately after they knew it was a success,
they were like, we got to do it because a
you guys are characters in a movie. You're not supposed
to age.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
So yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Why there's people online that are just like, you know,
obviously don't like the ending of Tembach two. But then
there are other people that are like, we wish we
had a third one.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Just to like sure everyone wants a third one. I
didn't like the ending of the second one. I want
to see the third one.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Yes, I loved it.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I would I would love it, but you know, we
are characters that are not supposed to age, right.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
So not unless unless it's the characters are now in
their own sequel which takes place.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Later, which is such a brilliant idea. You could go
pitch that talking about it all about was there ever
any talks about a third one?
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Was there ever? Or was it? Literally the second one?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
The second one? Was it?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Like?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I felt like maybe there was a moment, but then
you know, descendants came in and they just blew up,
and so they were like, this is kind of like
where we're going down? Yeah, and like right, like it
was a smart idea on their part for sure, Like
you know, selfishly, I wish there was a third one,
(40:33):
just so there course.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Lays your cast looks like you guys have just a
blast together, Like it looks like the chemistry of all
of you guys are just great.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
I want to drive from I want to drive from
teen Beach three to Pitch Perfect four.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
That's that's the night that I wanted.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
That's the night that I want to have with a
with a step up movie in between.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
That would be great. So wait, Sabrina asked before.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
I don't want to steal your question, but we did
want to ask it was like shooting and was there
any Was.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
There any differences, meaning like whether it was like having
to do with like like for us, like catering was
like a big thing on the third movie because we
were in India and like certain things had to be
in place for catering, which was not something we deal
with in the States. Like in Barcelona, they had like
this this break they took, like imagine we starts on set,
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we're in here and makeup and at like nine thirty,
it was like a break that everyone goes and gets
like a croissant and a cappuccino and like we're like
we're just getting going, Like what why are we stopping?
Like there was like things like that. Was there anything
different in Puerto Rico? What was it like filming there?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Yeah, it was a little bit more on island time,
So like the hustle that we're used to a little
bit in in the States was not always there. But
but that's and then like the humidity and it you know,
would rain just all of us that and like we
(42:02):
were in our leather and I had it just you know,
it was like it was like all that kind of stuff,
but Puerto Rico is magic and it's incredible. And I,
because I speak Spanish, was just like, you know, the
liaison to everything was like, really, I have like a
(42:24):
role in that world because I felt going into it,
I don't know if I'm gonna like be embraced by
everyone because I'm like older than they are. And it's like,
but I became like theiah, like Auntie. There was just
like let's go to this alsa club, Let's do that,
you know what I mean. Yeah, And and and I
loved the catering. I think everybody just loved having.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
The food was so good.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah, and just the talent they are the dancers were
just so so wonderful that they got from Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Was everyone were all the dancers from Puerto Rico or
was it like a mix?
Speaker 3 (43:03):
It was a mix. There was a lot of La
dancers that had they called them the Skeleton Skeleton crew,
so like they started everything and they were brought in
to Puerto Rico. And then I actually had a dance
double for the second movie because I couldn't learn all
of it because I didn't have time.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
That makes sense.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
For the most part, I did everything except for her
best summer ever. There were moments in that which whoever
wants to watch the movie again and try to see
where they could spinde.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Can you see it? Can you? Can you see the double?
Speaker 3 (43:43):
I can? But I was like, oh, this is one
of the perks of being in Puerto Rico too, because
we can find someone that actually looked like me. It
worked out and she was so so great. I'm like,
forgetting her name right now, Mari, Mari Angelli, Marie Angelly.
It was like a different name of Mari Angelly. And
(44:06):
she was so so good, and she was always like,
you got this, and I'm like, no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Get it, No, I don'tagging you in you in okay.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
So one of the reasons you had you had no
time to rehearse is because you became a bella.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
We got to talk a little bit about this now.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Because it's there's very few cinematic universes to me that
raised to the level of art.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Oh my god, and pitch.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Perfect is up there.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
So had you were you a fan of Pitch Perfect one, Like,
had you known the film going in and all that
kind of stuff, or or so yeah, was this the
coolest thing in the world to get an audition or
how did you hear about this?
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Absolutely? I mean it was after you know, all the
Disney Channel stuff. And I remember being in the room
auditioning with like a lot of actresses and I'm like, oh,
and singers that I knew, And I was like, I'm
just gonna go in there and have fun, you know,
like at least I mean, just gonna have a good
audition and make them laugh or and and I went
(45:09):
in and Elizabeth Banks was in the room already from.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Her by the way, got one of my favorites of
all time.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
I know, she's amazing and hilarious. And I got a
little nervous because I was like, I didn't I wasn't
expecting to see her here, okay, And you know, I
did my thing. They they laughed and stuff, and then
I think, uh, and then I sang, and I had
my mom was like, you know, Greasy, you have to
(45:37):
show them you speak Spanish, you know, And I'm like,
I think they could. I think they know, ma, but
I's like, you should sing some part of your song
in Spanish. And I was like, oh, that's actually good idea.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
Mom, that'll make it, that'll make them remember you idea.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
And I'm like nope. So I go to sing and
then suddenly, like I get to the park and I forget,
I forget the words in Spanish because it like and
I just was like, oh no, this is so terrible.
And I just I was like, oh, sorry, I should mention.
I'm gonna I'm gonna sing this little part in Spanish.
(46:19):
So I'm just gonna start again. And now, you know,
Elizabeth was like, you didn't have to tell me. And
I was like, oh, I'm sure I.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
Could recognize Spanish.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
That's a good cover.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Though.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
That's a good cover, I know.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
And I started again and then I sang it and
it was fine, and I was like okay. And then
when I came back in, I think I don't know
exactly like why I got it over some of these
people that I just you know, really really talented too,
but it could have been like the second round. They
were like all of a sudden, like hey, improvise, then
(46:53):
give you anything to say, anything to do. They're like
you're at a campfire with all the bellas and just
and I was right, I got this, like I have
no bat like I have no shame, Like I do
anything and do it, and you know, I did ground
things and all that stuff. So I was like, I'm
(47:13):
I'm comfortable doing this. And and then I think that's
where they were like, we don't care. If you can dance,
you can come.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
So I'm like, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (47:24):
They told you in the room.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
No, literally like straight after, because it was like we
got to get you to baton rouge, like right away.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Yeah, I was the last person that they cast because
there were just two new bellas Hailee Steinfeld yeah and me.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
So now you're you're I have to imagine that going
into an established cast already kind of they've got their
group together. Was that daunting to walk on and kind
of say like, oh, I'm the new person and they
they already have their relationships and everything else. It's like
kind of like guest starring on a big show. Oh
you're like, oh god, it's this isn't my house yet.
Speaker 3 (48:02):
Yeah, totally. And like I you know, like you mentioned earlier,
like I was a fan of the first movie already
I had watched in a movie theater. I was like, Oh,
this is the kind of movie I want to be in,
you know, kind of put it on your vision board
kind of stuff, and you're just like if only And
I I don't even know the girls know this because
I don't. I never wanted them to think like, oh,
(48:24):
she's like our friends whatever. But like I watched the
behind the scenes. I watched like what Bella boot Camp
was about, you know, and just like to get the
feel of it before I got in there, and and
I was just like, I love them. They're just so
fun and cool, and so I had to try to
(48:44):
be like so chill when I walked in, but at
the same time, that's just like not who I am.
I'm very excitable, as you guys have to notice. So
I'm just like, oh my, I'm so happy to be here.
And like straight away they just like really embraced me.
And one weekend we went to New Orleans to party,
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and that just cemented.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
That was it, all of it.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
Yeah, that was it so cool?
Speaker 4 (49:13):
How fun to be a part of like a giant
like female cast, Like that's just.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
It's so inspiring because like one of us like has
it's just so talented in their own right, and like
when we get together, it's just so supportive and we
like actually like I've been a bridesmaid for her weddings, baby,
you know, and like we've just been there for each other.
(49:41):
And I mean, Anna's celebrating her birthday. We're going on
a trip on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
Like, oh my gosh, how awesome.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Yeah, it's really really, really special, and I'm so grateful
for that experience. I'm grateful for teen Beach because a
part of me thinks, like if I didn't have teen Beach,
I don't know if like have gotten the opportunity to
audition for a pitch perfect and right.
Speaker 4 (50:04):
I mean, everything you do, every you know, new credit
on your resume opens a door for the next one
to come along. So it's like crazy cool if we
were to do going back to teen Beach, if there
was a teen Beach three, what would Chee Chee be doing?
(50:25):
Like where would she be?
Speaker 1 (50:28):
You know?
Speaker 3 (50:30):
I think that, Like I think maybe chi Chi is
kind of tired of being like a secondary character and
maybe finds like the necklace or the surfboard, and she's
like going to the real world and something out I've
(50:52):
always been interested in, Like what else is in the world,
Like it's just can't be big Mamas like or something.
Maybe she has her own, you know, hair salon.
Speaker 4 (51:03):
Hair salon. I was just gonna say her having a
hair salon seems like it makes like perfect sense. That'd
be so fun, oh adorable.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
So what But I think she's taking a little bit
more control of her situation and not just doing whatever.
Speaker 4 (51:17):
But she says, yes, that's great.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Okay, So final question, while we have you because we
don't want to keep you forever as much as we'd
love to. And you know, when we even though it
has nothing to do with Disney whatsoever, when we watch
all the.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Pitch perfect movies, we'll have you back if Okay.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
So, I guess the best way I would ask this
is because you said you were a little too old
for cheaty girls. Yeah, but everyone you know, your your
nieces loved cheata girls. But your favorite Disney Channel movies,
I guess just said, did you grow up watching Disney
Channel at all? And if you did, what was your
favorite Disney Channel movie?
Speaker 3 (51:57):
Oh? My god, what was my favorite us? Hocus Pocus
on Disney Channel?
Speaker 2 (52:03):
No, yeah, I guess, I guess it's a Disney movie.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
It was in the theaters hocus Pocus though, so it
was technically a DCM.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
But we can allow for focus, Yeah, pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
Really yeah, theaters, my gosh, but I can allow hocus pocus.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
That's a good answer.
Speaker 3 (52:16):
Yeah, I mean it's a classic and it's Yeah, when
did d com start? You guys would know this.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
It depends on what version of the because there's some
that are i mean, Wonderful World at Disney and the
Disney Sunday Night Movie stuff like that have been around
since the fifties and the sixties, but the actual Disney
channel that we know in love is like ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
No, it's even a little no U ninety one. I
think it was the one I think.
Speaker 4 (52:47):
Came out in like mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
I think, yeah, Break was a little later.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
The first one was we haven't watched it yet, it's yeah,
Undercover Raps I think is the first one that that
came out. Yeah, so yeah, that was was under Wraps
that though it was ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
That's like it went from that to like it was
like like Brink wasn't too long after that, Johnny Tsunami.
Then you have I had of you laters like with
like Smart House.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
Yeah, look of the Irish.
Speaker 4 (53:18):
Luck of the Irish.
Speaker 3 (53:19):
I'm going to tell you how old I am but
like in nineteen ninety seven when all those dcoms started
coming out, I was already in seventh grade, so I
feel like I was just like getting a little too old,
like going into high school, and wasn't watching like yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Okay, that's okay. Well then you can just say teen Beach. Yeah,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
Thank you so much for joining us. This has been awesome.
I just to get a little glimpse into not only
teen Beach but also Pitch perfect exciting day for me.
Speaker 4 (53:50):
Yes, but what a great journey it's been too, like
so fun, great projects, like awesome.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
I'm very grateful. I feel like that little girl singing
Whitney Houston would be so so proud.
Speaker 4 (54:05):
It'd be like, hell, yeah you made it, you made it.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
Oh. Can you imagine too, though, how much better all
of us would be if we had that same confidence
as adults that we had as kids.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
I mean, come on, curious, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
Know what happens? Is this going to turn into therapy?
Speaker 1 (54:21):
Now?
Speaker 2 (54:22):
It's mine always does?
Speaker 4 (54:23):
That's do you know what shocks the hell of saying
you guys saw on my phone when I was showing
you pictures. I was at a wedding last night, it
shocks people how much I do not dance at weddings
or things like that.
Speaker 1 (54:33):
When you do something for a living, kind of you
don't want to do it at other places.
Speaker 4 (54:37):
Yeah, but it's so it freaks everyone out. They're like,
why aren't you out there? And I'll just like sit
by a table and kind of groove. They're expecting me
to go out there and like do my chop chop
from dancing with the only place.
Speaker 2 (54:47):
That's the only place I dance.
Speaker 4 (54:48):
Is that really?
Speaker 3 (54:49):
Because I'm like karaoke, I'm like, no, I would not.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
Say I if I get thrown up on a stage
for karaoke. I'm doing shoop from I'm not doing a song.
I'm doing like some kind of rat song thing. I'm
not doing. I'm not doing Winny Houston. I'll tell you that,
you forget I do.
Speaker 3 (55:10):
Forget about dre there, there.
Speaker 2 (55:12):
You go, There you go.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
I love.
Speaker 4 (55:14):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1 (55:19):
And yes, we'd love to have you back at some
point if you'd like to come and play. Yes, okay, good,
and we'll pitch it. We'll get on that team beach
three pitch.
Speaker 4 (55:25):
Yeah, yeah, we'll get that going. We'll get that going
bye bye bye.
Speaker 1 (55:35):
Oh man, she's amazing the idea that you've you've done
a movie and you're waiting for the movie to come
out while you're still like waiting tables and you had
this big dramatic walkout and then so.
Speaker 4 (55:46):
Good, so good.
Speaker 2 (55:47):
So many Hollywood stories like that.
Speaker 4 (55:49):
I have like a regular job of any sort. Besides
I worked.
Speaker 1 (55:52):
At a motorcycle factor or a motorcycle uh shop, like
selling stuff in front for half of one day when
I was like thirteen, for half of what.
Speaker 2 (56:03):
Yeah. Other than that, I've played characters that had real jobs.
Speaker 4 (56:07):
That's so joky, that's it.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
Have you ever had a real job?
Speaker 4 (56:10):
Yes, I worked at a tanning salon for like a
year and half when I was in college.
Speaker 2 (56:14):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (56:16):
Yes, and after The Cheetah Girls. Because The Cheetah Girls
I filmed my freshman year in college, and then it
didn't come out for that next year. Then it came out,
and I was making such good money at the because
I was on a commission base thing.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
I kept going.
Speaker 4 (56:32):
I just like I liked having a job. I liked
being busy, I liked you know. Yeah, so yeah, I
worked at a tanning salon for a long time now.
I can't even imagine going into a tanning bed like
at all. I do all but like it's so crazy
for me to be all spray tan but I won't.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
I like playing characters that have real jobs.
Speaker 1 (56:48):
It's fun. So thank you all so much for joining us,
and thank you Christy for joining us.
Speaker 4 (56:53):
It's yes, she is awesome. What a cool journey. Can
you imagine the anxiety of not having any real soul
no espetually for someone like she's like saying, she's like
like not a dancer.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
Like yeah, no, I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (57:04):
You can move, but she doesn't have the training.
Speaker 1 (57:07):
I have dreams like that where it's like you don't
know the lines, you haven't done this. This is our actor dreams,
and I don't like them. So thank you everybody for
joining us, and join us next time as we review
more movies and talk to more awesome people because that's
what we do here on the Magical rewind Machine, and
don't forget to join us on the Instagram machine at
Magical rewind Pod.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
Thank you everybody, and we'll see you next time. Bye bye,
Thank you so much for joining us on this par
copper episode of Magical Rewind.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And boy, do we have a guest for you today.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I always say the guests are amazing, but then I
always turn out to be right, because our guests are amazing,
and we've got another one for you today. Not only
is she going to be talking to us about I'm
going to say it the TB what was it, the TBCU,
the Teen Beach Cinematic Universe, but she is also going
to be talking about one of my favorite franchises of all.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Time, Pitch Perfect. Yes, please help us. Welcome Chrissy fit.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Hi. Hi, Hello, guys, thank you for joining us so fun. No,
thanks for having me. I'm like nerding out right now.
I'm like, we're scar My Gigi, scar.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, we just we just finished our recap of Team
Beach two, or, as one of the fans has called it,
the end of the TBCU or the Teen Beach Cinematic Universe.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh my gosh, I didn't know that that was.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We didn't either, We didn't either.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
But it is like a micheal but also like really
sad the end. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's uh, how
I don't know do. I want to ask what you thought.
I feel like I heard his his episode I Love My,
I mean, I love you guys. I love this whole premise.
(01:43):
It's so so fun and hearing Johnny talk about team
each one was like really really nostalgic and the whole
point of your podcast. I guess we just yeah, OK,
But I know Will you don't like musicals.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So I'm getting I am getting there.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
He is on the up and up and literally is
now able and it makes me really proud. He's able
to like dissect it like songs and dances and stuff.
He's able to really like he's joined in. I at
first got nervous.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's true. Now I'm getting there.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
But this movie was the start of you because he
has a hard time with musicals of like people just
knowing the dances and just like, you know, did you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Get together first as characters? Because you just broke into
song for no reason? Why did you.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Break it the way that the movie's done, And it
leans into that like cheeky idea of like a musical
and often you know it's it's like this was one
of his like kind of breakthrough ones. And then Zombies
was the one that like we got it, we.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Got but no, so teen Beach one I gave a
very high rating. Two it was one of my higher ratings.
And then we just finished teen Beach two and it
was so good until the very end.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Till the very end, and this is why it hasn't
seen of her.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Were just like, can you tell us about that actually,
because we were told by one of our producers that
it was actually kind of a controversial thing within the
fans that loved the first movie, they had a lot
to say about how the second one ends. Do you
remember all of that going on?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, yeah, I definitely do, because like even us like
making it and reading it, I think like some of
us were like, wait, is this gonna gel with like
our demographic, Like we're trying to do inception suddenly and
dream within a dream. I'm like, I don't know if
if kids are gonna love this. But then it was
kind of exciting too because we were like, we're just
(03:40):
giving them a little something extra, something like different. It
doesn't have to end super happy, no, but that we
were wrong, it should end. You think about it, like
at that age, you haven't lived a lot of your life,
so it's like if you if suddenly you forget a
(04:02):
very important relationship in your life, it's like life or death.
It's like, yes, forget this boyfriend that was so important
to me, and even though we're meant to be and
we will still meet each other again, it's like then
it feels like for not like everything that happened. So
I understood, I understood kind of like the disappointment about it,
(04:24):
but I was just like I was hoping that we
would get a third one to like redeem ourselves, you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Know, explain what was got.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, well that's I mean, did it read differently on
the page than it showed on the screen because they
had they introduced the concept very quickly of well, wait,
if they don't make it back to the sixties and
do the movie, we may never meet ye, And then
like five seconds later, the characters make it back to
the sixties and make it to the movie, but then
(04:52):
they don't remember each other.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, which what that was always confusing because it was like,
wasn't that the point? Wasn't that why they were trying
to get back right? But because you know, we've had
we had conversations about it, and I'm also like a writer,
so I was like how was making sense adding up
And it's because she had an experienced Leila played brilliantly
(05:17):
by Grace Fipps, like such wonderful God, she had a
different experience in the real world. When they came back
into the movie world, she kind of changed the movie
and her role in it. So it was no longer
Wet Side Story and now became Leila, Queen of the Beach.
The movie didn't exist, So I'm like, you should have
(05:38):
kept them in the real world. Yeah, this kind of happened,
but you know, they still met because of that movie
at the end, so I think that it it kind
of kind of worked. Wow, am I Like, am I
like talking badly about a movie.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That No, we're just trying to figure because to.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Be honest, Yeah, to be honest, like everything else like
leveled up, Like with like the music. There's two songs
that like we weren't like one hundred percent, but like
the music was good. The routines that you have. This
choreographer did such magical things with these routines, the visuals
of it, and that was one of my favorite things
(06:22):
from the first one was like the the use of
the surfboards and the towels and the balls and like
there's so many great pop work and then also like
seeing like those aerial shots where they're just fun visuals,
like everything looks so great. This is really kind of
the only like dip where you're just going like wait, what,
Like this is really it just the end. Everything else
(06:44):
was great, you know. So it's not like you're talking terribly.
It's like one part of it. And unfortunately for me, Listen,
I'm forty years old. I have lived my life and
there are tons of things that I've gone through and
I still need that happy ending. That's what I'm coming
to Disney for. I'm coming to watch a movie to
have a good ending at the end, to cheer me
up and make me feel like everything is okay.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, you nailed it. That's one hundred percent. Like I
think you know you want you tune in because you
want to feel this joy and this happiness and the
world is so joyful. Like what I really really loved
about the first one was the fact that we spent
most of our time in the movie in the sixties,
right place where you know the kids don't they don't
(07:27):
know that world.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, you introduced it to them, Like the styles, the choreography.
You introduced it to them in a fun way.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
The fashion, the you know, and that was like really
fun for for the kids to see, then fun for
their parents, fun for their grandparents. Like it was more
of like a you know, I don't know, like a
family event, and being in the real world just kind
of made it a little bit more serious at times too,
like everything was kind of just like a little not
(07:56):
as up up as like the first movie. But I
I had such a blast even though I was literally
there guys for like two weeks. Really, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I How long was your rehearsal process? Then?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I didn't have one?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You didn't have one?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
No, you have a big number.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
How could you not have a rehearsal you.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Have like a solo number, Sabrina, This was like panic
attacks happening. But I was doing Pitch Perfect two at
the time, when well, you like, because we don't, you know,
they don't.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
We're not even gonna get into pitch Perfect too yet.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
We're not even gonna get there yet, because I am
a disgustingly massive Pitch Perfect fan.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yay, oh my god, I'll do your lines if you want.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So we'll talk about that in a bit, but yeah,
we got to do teen Beach first, and then I'm
going to geek out, No, you were.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You were working that movie during the same time as
this movie was being done. Was that the reason why
you weren't able to do rehearsing?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Then yeah, yeah, yeah I was, you know, and I
obviously I couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in
the Pitch Perfect franchise, so of course, yeah, I had
to do that, and they kind of worked around me
and figured it out. But that meant like, I didn't
do any of the dance rehearsals and I'm not I'm Cuban,
so I can move, but I'm not a dancer and
(09:23):
I'm okay looking out because you know, I remember the
first one the like it was very difficult for me,
so I hadn't And then they said, oh, on top
of that, we might give you a number, which is
a whole other story. The mite was just very very interesting,
but and I was like, oh, no, what am I
going to do? I really want to make sure that
this works out. So they would send me videos of
(09:47):
the choreography. Okay, okay, on my downtime from filming. I
would have to like.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's like homework.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, it was homework.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Well, and for somebody who's yours, I mean I I
feel like you're kind of throwing it out a little
too easy. Not a dancer, because you do a great
job dancing, but for somebody who doesn't have a lot
of training, learning off of a video is significantly different
than having a choreographer sit there and teach you step
by step. Like that is a hard thing to do.
It's a different It's like it would be like some
(10:19):
me trying to learn how to like read plays for
football off of a video, like I need someone, I
need someone to break this down for me. I don't
know what the hell's going on? What are these ex'es?
What are these o's? Like you know, jeez, that's hard, wow, Chrissy.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And then I was just like, wait, am I what
arm do I actually do? Because it's like on the
video this way and you know.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, are you mirroring it or are you doing like
they're left you're right, like oh wow yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And then like I would have to ask some of
the Pitch Perfect girls like hey, can you can we
do this together because.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Like it's okay, wait, you're breaking breaking my fan brain
So you're on the set of Pitch Perfect Too with
the other cast members and they're helping you with your
choreography for Teen Beach Too.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That's wow. That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And like one moment, like they hadn't seen it obviously
those movies because it's they're not in their demographic or whatever.
So they're like, what are we helping you practice for?
And I'm like, it's a Disney Channel movie all this stuff.
They're like, we're having a movie night, We're gonna watch it. Yes,
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So you watch Teen Beach together?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Oh that is so that's what I leave my house for.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we watched some of it. We didn't
watch the whole thing. We were more hanging out together
than like watching it. But it was just like so
fun and they were so so supportive. So it was
like I had the dancers in Puerto Rico like supporting
me and like sending me videos, and then I had
the Bella's basically being like we're.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
All even you gotta get out of here with that story.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I love you too.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Okay, wait freaking now, because I'm like, oh my god,
I'm barely remembering this. Pitch Perfect choreography, and now I.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Have overload overload. Oh man, you're.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Gonna go into like my gegy accent everything long, Like
what is happening?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Oh yeah, you had a whole set, you had a
whole different accent and Pitch Perfect too, so you're yeah,
it's you're going character to character is great a voice actor?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
All of a sudden, I know, I know. Okay, So
I have a question.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
We've we've got, we've gone, we'll get more into Team
Beach and we'll get more into Pitch Perfect.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
But for you, how did you become an actor and
a singer?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
What?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Where? Where did you start? And how did you decide
to get into the beginning?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I know, we were so excited. We're so excited we
jumped in. We've got to figure out how you what's
your origin story? How did you get here? You know?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But I'm so excited about you guys too, And I
have to like take a moment, see because you know,
Cheetago in my I was already in college when it
came out, but my little cousin was the age of it,
so I used her as an excuse to watch him, like, Oh,
I'm just you know, I'm babysitting a like then we
went to Barcelona like ten years later and we're like,
(13:18):
oh my god, we're in Cheetah Girls too. This is
it's like, really, did you.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Guys get to go to like Parkway? And did you
see any of the places that we filmed in?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Oh, that's right, choreography, there was the steps.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Did you guys go down the steps next to the dragon? Yeah,
it's fans do it and they send me. They just
have no idea how much it means to me watching
fans like reenact that whole part of Strut.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
It's so cool, it's so it's so fun, it's so adorable.
I mean I feel that a little bit with Team Beat,
how like impactful it is because you watch it so
young and it becomes your childhood and stuff, which, mind you,
I was not a child when I watched the movie,
so I don't know what my excuse was.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Hey, I'm almost fifty and I watched it last night,
so don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And obviously boy means world. That was like, that was
my childhood.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That was oh, thank you, yes.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
And I was always like Eric Matthews is the best
one on the show.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Don't tell anybody else, but I'm texting writer and Danielle
right now hang up, like.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Comedic timing and like physical comedy. It was like out
of this.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
World and a really good looking cast, like give me
a break, Like who oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Because the Cheetah Girls cast and the Teen Beach cast
and the Pitch Perfect cast were all ugly people.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Well that's very sweet, thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But I started acting, singing like as kid, you know,
at school plays and doing all the things, and and
then I realized, like in middle school, that I can
marry the two with musicals. And I was like, oh,
this is like perfect, and so I just started doing that.
And I went to Florida International University and I studied
(15:09):
theater there, and then I got put on probation. Wow,
this is scandalous. I don't think anybody else.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yes, yes to us.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I'm a really good person, but wow, really good people
say that I actually always followed the rules and was fine.
But I was in two shows that semester and I
didn't have enough production hours. But I didn't have time
to do all of the production. It was something so silly.
(15:40):
I was like three hours short, and they were like, well,
you're not going to be able to perform in any
of the show's next semester because you didn't fulfill your hours.
And I was like, why am I in school for this?
And then I can't do the thing? Yeah, and something
told me I didn't need a degree to do acting. Yeah,
(16:04):
I'm out, and I moved. I moved to la and
and just got really lucky pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well, I mean, it was your first it was your
first job. Was Zoe wan on one, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
It was Zoe one on one? I had one line.
I think I said, like he took the last moon bar.
I think I said that's what I said, because you
don't forget your first line. That was like my first,
my first thing. And I do remember like getting in
the trailer for hair and makeup and being like I
(16:36):
made it like so delusional and so little, like.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
No, but it's so big, like it's going on the
best set for the first time. And especially if you
get like a part and you you luck out and
get your own trailer or like what like the first
time you get all of those things that you see
growing up and that you dream of, it's huge. It's huge.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, that's so cool. Since I was a kid, but
you know, my parents were like no, you know, Cuban
immigrant parents that were like, you got to go to school.
You can't just like leave and do because I I
kind of thought, oh, if I go even just to
Orlando and I'm on Nickelodeon, like I'll do it, I'll
(17:19):
be famous. So it used to be like always I'll
be famous. Now I'm like, oh, but I just like
and I'm now really really grateful that I didn't because
I had you know, everyone's journey is the way it's
supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, and then I did.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
End up playing a teenager when I'm in my twenties, so.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It was fine, we all did. We all did. That's
the way it did.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So then you were because that whole area around there
in Florida. That's where I started at Nickelodeon in New York,
and then we opened the studio down there in Florida.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So that oh, it was the greatest. The greatest thing
in the world is the coolest.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
So that was like the kid, that's what you wanted
to do as a kid was was you wanted to
be on Nickelodeon or you wanted to do some of
these things. So then did you if you had to
pick one at the time as a kid, I know
you found that you were able to marry him, But
did you would you rather have been a singer than
an actor or other way around?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be
a singer. I wanted to be like Selena.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Or Vinni bum bums that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I used to sing Whitney Houston like I'll Always Love
You in third grade. Oh, and I had like a
whole act, Like I had the costume and I would
like in the Sax solo, I would like take off
the cape and just walk around and like I don't
even think I was good. Like I also, like, you know,
(18:49):
ten years old, really belting this this song out. But
I was so committed and so confident. Yeah where did
that girl go? But you know, so and everyone just
was like, oh, this girl is gonna make something because
I was just so determined to do so. I think
when I was younger, I really wanted to be a singer.
(19:12):
And then you know, now I'm like that dream is
over and so I'm and I also get to do
it in movies, which is so wonderful, and in voiceover work,
which is awesome. Too, because I can see some different
characters and it doesn't like, you know, the life of
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a pop star feels like a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, I'll say, yeah, it feels like a ton.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
But yeah, the the industry is is rough. It's a
it's a you know, it is a very cutthroat industry,
and so it's it's tough, and like you said, like
that was what I loved was that I was able
to sing, but I was doing it in movies and
I was dancing. I was doing like all of the
things that I loved to do. So it's nice to
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find those roles that you can you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I loved how you had like such a specific
character in teen Beach, like so cute. It wasn't like
just kind of regular teenager, right, like you had your
whole like your vibe, your accent, like everything was like
comedic with so many of you guys on the camera.
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It was so good. It was fun. It looked like
it was a really fun character to do.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
It was really fun. And that was like a big
risk because the audition for that was basically like Chee
Chee a loyal member of the Rodents and Butch's you know,
best friend or something, not girlfriend, but one of like
like Butch's gang or crew. Later on we were told
we can't say gang.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's about right. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But then I was like, what am I going to do?
So I started watching all these shows or these movies
that it was based on, and I realized, like, oh,
these these like bad guys. They all have these New
York accents of course for no reason.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
And leather jackets for no reason.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
This is hilarious in the dead heat of a beach.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I'm gonna try something. And so I went in and
I did this voice, and I had my hair up,
you know, not like it was in the movie, but
I did the whole bit, and I had the laugh
even in the audition, and I remember they were like
silent after and I was like, oh, really messed up there.
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I took a risk and that was not a good one.
And then after that they were just like that was great,
And you know, it was a little another inside. I
don't know what I'm supposed to say or can't say
or not, but like they didn't really want me at
first because I was old to them. You know, I'm
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not an actual teenager. I think I played chee Chee
for the first movie at twenty eight years old, okay,
supposed to be like seventeen or whatever, and all the
people were there, they were like, actually fifteen sixteen year olds,
so it's like, I don't know how it's gonna read
or whatever. And then eventually they were like, well, you know,
she's actually she's doing something different that we can't find
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with other.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, so they'll cast you.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
We've we've interviewed a number of people now that said
the same thing, that are like, I was twenty nine
when I walked in, but I didn't tell them that
I just did.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And then they're like, well, well, you got to do
school on the set, and they're.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Like, I have a doctorate, I don't need to do
the three hours of school work.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah. So in your first audition then, was it just acting?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Did you have to sing and dance in the first
audition or anything like that, or was that just come
in and let's see what you can do.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Well, it was it was doing the scene and then
had to sing a little bit and saying rolling in
the Deep by Adele That was like my pong alway
is to say I did it for Pitch Perfect too
as well. Thanks Adele. I was just like And then
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after that they were like, oh, we got to see
if you could dance, and I was like, do we really? Yeah?
So I went in and I did the thing, and
and it was did you like was.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
It like because we've had a mix of it. Mine
was like, bring another song in that you can dance too.
So I just literally like had to like improv in there.
But then I know for Zombies, I think they had
like a full like dance audition portion of their process,
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like where they went there was a choreographer that taught
them stuff and they watched from there, and I think
that's the same way with high school musical as well.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah. No, I went into the dance studio where they
were already rehearsing. Okay, I think it was me and
then Jordan Fisher was the last one to get cast,
so okay, second to last to get cast, and so
like cast members were rehearsing and everything.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh wow yeah, And I was like, you booked it
and then like immediately went into rehearsals.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Or immediately like I I didn't even have any time
in LA to rehearse with the cast and the dancers.
It was like all right, we got to go to
Puerto Rico, like for real, and I was like okay.
So I went into the studio and they were just like, well,
we don't really need for you to do a whole dance,
but we're just gonna show you. These couple eight counts
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should be really easy. Christopher Scott, who you know, is
an amazing choreographer. He did in the Heights and Wicked,
and it's actually fun because right now people are doing
side by side of Wicked, like the song Loathing and
cruising for a Bruisin, So it was similar, you know,
you could see his style.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Right, Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
And I was like, oh yeah, a couple a counts cool,
and it's just like once three, I was like, can
we just do one eight count because a three count?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Let's do a three count? Is that a thing?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
A three count? Because that.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh my god, he was like a one and two
and a three in it. Hit it? Can it drop it?
Like it's hot right now, Like, oh my gosh, it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Was like four eight counts. But because there was like
a one and a two, yeah, these are this is
like one hundred and fifty five count like it's happening.
And because his movements are very very quick. Yeah, I know,
like I did my whole third grade Whitney Houston with
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the cake thing, like just was confident in the movement,
even though I was like, I don't know what I'm
actually doing and it read like Chee chi anyway, because
like she doesn't really care. And so I just had
to do one dance audition. I know other people were
doing more and trying more and whatever, but I was
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just like, this are gonna get guys. It's not like
it's not gonna work out. And they were like, you
know what, We're gonna take a chance on you kid
adults that we like, all right, And we went to
Puerto Rico and I had like maybe seven panic attacks
during dances, and so that's why in the second one,
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when I had none of the dance rehearsal, I was like,
this is gonna be impossible.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And they give your own number too, like no.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
And that I was like that we have to have
you know, right, I think it happened, and like Disney
didn't know if it was gonna work just because they
were like, we don't know if you could sing in
Chee Chee's voice or if it's gonna sound good if
it's gonna sound a little grading and I was like, okay,
thanks God. And then they were just like my agent
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at the time was like, why don't you sing something
and we send it to them in the voice and see,
you know, idea proved to them that you could do it.
And I was like again, in my hotel room in
Baton Rigeallysiana, I went into the bathroom on my MacBook
and opened up Garage Man and just saying, there are
worse things I could do, and it's just and I'm
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thinking back on it, it's like so funny, like they
have a boy things I can funny right Like.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I was just like this could work, yes, and that
what a great song choice to do as well, like
for the character. That makes so much sense.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Wow. I thought it was good. And then my agent
was like, not that song? Well what because she was
she knew that like the song was gonna be more upbeat,
so got it? I did, uh Tina Turner rolling in
on the over okay fun which was really really fun,
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and they heard it and they were like, Okay, I
think this is gonna work. I recorded the song in
Baton Rouge while filming and and then when we got
to set, they were like, we don't know if this
is going to be in the movie.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Oh oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I just like tried to prove myself singing it. Yeah,
b Jordan Fisher is an incredible singer performer, Like he
needs to have this moment too. See. I was like,
I learned this dance in between other dancings.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
You know, and I do know what I went through
to prep for this come on of.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Physical comedy, Like I wanted to be thrown off the stage.
I wanted to do all the stuff. And also, you know,
not to get like super heady about it or whatever,
but I was just like, we're the only two characters
of color in this movie, right, have a moment where
little kids can see us and be like, oh wow,
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they could be the lead singer of the song. They
could have this moment to shine. So really, really that's
where me being an adult helped. And I was just
like really pushing for it, and they were like, okay,
we're we're gonna give you half the day. So we
had to film it before lunch, all of it, the
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whole thing, and I was it was so stressful because
you know, it's a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, with no rehearsal in four hours to shoot it awesome.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Yeah, yeah, at.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Least they were setting you up for success, right right.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
But yeah, Jordan and I were like, we're going to
make this happen and like I have to, like can't. Boyd,
who was a phenomenal dancer, also helped me all like
you know, time there. He didn't really have to stay
as long as he did, and he was there just
to like like do it in front of me and whatever.
So I'm so happy that it ended up. We got it.
(30:14):
It was in the movie. Yeah, sound of Little Kids
that are just like I lot, that's my favorite song.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It was because it's a great bridge to the first
movie and a great callback to the falling off the
stage and all that. But it's also the idea that
it's like, all right, let's sing a song because none
of us are happy, So Gigi get up there and sing.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I mean, it is very funny now it was. Am
I wrong?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Though?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So if if I'm staring at the screen, the woman
to your oh yeah right, your your number one backup singer?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Okay, yes, no wait, So to.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
The if I'm looking at the screen, be to your left,
Who's who's you know, it's it's you in the middle,
and then you have the three singers on the side.
The first one was she also one of the one
of the other choreographers of the of the movie.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yes, she was.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
It's a sat choreographer, Jessica Keller, and she played struts.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yes, okay, so I knew I was right about that.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And she was also very helped everyone.
Everyone was just like rallied and they were like, we're
gonna make this number happen. He said. It also was
a nice bridge.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
It was like it was there wasn't a ton of
of of bridges I feel like in the movie going
back to the beginning, you.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Know, because obviously ye yeah it was with best summer ever.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yes, and and it's like, yeah, I Wills had that
stuck in his head.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Two days away from just drinking myself unconscious to get
the song out of my head.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
But there wasn't a lot of like like homage to
like the the world that this micro world that we
all fell in love with within the first movie. There
wasn't a lot of going back and forth. So it
was perfect. It was really I'm so I can't imagine
the movie without it, Like it's weird for them to
even have thought that that would have that it wasn't needed,
because it, definitely I feel was needed.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
There were so many big numbers that you know, they
wanted to have more time with, and like that last number.
I think there was one day we were there on
set for like eighteen hours, which was insanity.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
What was it for a number?
Speaker 3 (32:33):
It was got to be me. It was the last number.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, the last one in the pickup trucks.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
No no, sorry, the one in the in the dance.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Where he oh yeah, okay, yes yeah, he says, give
me the kick drum.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah yeah yeah. And I'm curious which songs did you
guys hate that one? That one?
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Yeah, just the song, It just value of it and
the dance that was it was itself. I wasn't a
big fan of the frown, and there was an appalling
situation that happened with one of those poor dancers. I
just feel so bad. It's this part with the with
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the smile right the frown upside down and they have
this poor dancer like no, no wait. I felt so
bad for her, Like it could have just been boys
like it because they're in pants. It wouldn't have looked
you know what I mean. The visual was great, but
like this poor dancer, you know, she's in a cheerleading costume,
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like you know, she's wearing a skirt and you have
her butt in the air like that. It was so
appalling to me. I couldn't get over it. So it
really it really went down on my list.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
You're like, there's no frown because I would be.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
So mortified, Like, yeah, mortified if all of a sudden,
like I didn't really realize, or even if they were, you.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Know, it's gonna recognize her. In all fairness, we're not
going to know it could have been me. You wouldn't
have known.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
I know, she's all over that routine like she is.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
You can see her all over and she's.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Got this cute little red bob like she's adorable. You
definitely like your eye goes to her. She's great, and
then oh my god.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I just a lot of times, like dancers, they're they're
so vital to the whole thing. Yes, treated like with
the respect that they deserve, because there are bodies through
tor like.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Yes, and they're always down, like they're always down, Like, oh,
you want me to like climb up that thing and
then jump off. Of course I'm gonna do that. Like
they're always so so good on sets that that kind
of stuff is like she could have just gotten replaced
with someone. There's someone one of the guys that was
over there and crossing legs and moving over like just
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hanging out. Yeah, Chris cross Applesauce could have been the
person that was on the back with you.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Anyway, Going back to Teen Beach one, so it was
one of the biggest premieres of the Channel, and I
think it was the largest cable movie of the year
when it came out. I think came out twenty thirteen,
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and then it wasn't beaten on the Channel until the
second one came out, which is the thing that beat them.
So my question is, with the popularity of the first one,
how much did your life change before teen Beach to
after Teen Beach?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
It was it was interesting. I have an interesting like
story because I was waiting tables for like seven years
and I was just like, even though I would work
every so often, it was just you know, you still
had to have this like job. And so I did
Team Beach and it didn't come out like we filmed
it in twenty like two years before it came out.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Oh really, it's like twenty eleven.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Oh wow, the spring of twenty eleven, and like I
was like when is this movie gonna come out? And
so I had to like really stretch whatever. I got
paid for a while, and eventually you're just like, you know,
I got to get back to work. So I went
back to the restaurant job, where I had this very
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like dramatic exit and like wanted to give my you
know ah, and I was like, I'm I'm a star
now on ten and like my boss was just like,
you paid for that apron, you could keep it right, okay,
And then I had it the apron because I had
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to go back and work at the restaurant. Then teen
Beach premieres, and now suddenly people are coming to the
restaurant and they were like, wait, my daughter just saw you,
you know. And I was like, oh gosh, what's gonna happened? Like,
what's happening now? Because people I was starting to get recognized,
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and then you know, you get that residual check. Wow.
I'm being like really candid with you guys.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I am here for every ounce of it.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
This is gonna be out in the world. So it
was like, whatever, people need to know, people need to
know the real true, right. I got a residual check
that was like substantial because you know, Disney Channel plays
it over and over and over and over again, and
I was really like goodbye again and I'm here again,
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and and then shortly after that I got Pitch Perfect too,
and then just because there was it was so successful,
like teen Beach Movie, and even Elizabeth Banks when I
like auditioned, she was like, oh yeah, my nieces and
nephews have watched the movie, like they know about it
and they are freaking out that like Chee Chee is
a bella.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
I was like, what, this is insane and really really
flattering and awesome. So it did change, but not immediate.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
That's interesting. I feel like that's the longest we've heard
from interviews of the time from the end of the
y they pop them out the premiere like our first
one was like a year, but I feel like everyone
else is like, oh yeah, it came out like four
months after, like they like whip them out fast. That's crazy.
Two years.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
I'm wondering I have a very terrible memory, which is
great for an actress. But it was a long time
because we filmed it and then it was like, oh,
we can't like have it come out this summer because
it's not ready, So we had to wait for the
following summer.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Right, and it has to be a summer because it's
a summer movies. So what's the what was the timeframe
in between that then between the first movie then when
the talk started happening about Team Beach two. What was
how long after it premiered? I guess after it showed
on the channel makes a huge splash. Was it like
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instant like we're getting the game, We're doing another one.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, basically, like immediately after they knew it was a success,
they were like, we got to do it because a
you guys are characters in a movie. You're not supposed
to age.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
So yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Why there's people online that are just like, you know,
obviously don't like the ending of Tembach two. But then
there are other people that are like, we wish we
had a third one.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Just to like sure everyone wants a third one. I
didn't like the ending of the second one. I want
to see the third one.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Yes, I loved it.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I would I would love it, but you know, we
are characters that are not supposed to age, right.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
So not unless unless it's the characters are now in
their own sequel which takes place.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Later, which is such a brilliant idea. You could go
pitch that talking about it all about was there ever
any talks about a third one?
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Was there ever? Or was it? Literally the second one?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
The second one? Was it?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Like?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
I felt like maybe there was a moment, but then
you know, descendants came in and they just blew up,
and so they were like, this is kind of like
where we're going down? Yeah, and like right, like it
was a smart idea on their part for sure, Like
you know, selfishly, I wish there was a third one,
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just so there course.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Lays your cast looks like you guys have just a
blast together, Like it looks like the chemistry of all
of you guys are just great.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
I want to drive from I want to drive from
teen Beach three to Pitch Perfect four.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
That's that's the night that I wanted.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
That's the night that I want to have with a
with a step up movie in between.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
That would be great. So wait, Sabrina asked before.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
I don't want to steal your question, but we did
want to ask it was like shooting and was there
any Was.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
There any differences, meaning like whether it was like having
to do with like like for us, like catering was
like a big thing on the third movie because we
were in India and like certain things had to be
in place for catering, which was not something we deal
with in the States. Like in Barcelona, they had like
this this break they took, like imagine we starts on set,
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we're in here and makeup and at like nine thirty,
it was like a break that everyone goes and gets
like a croissant and a cappuccino and like we're like
we're just getting going, Like what why are we stopping?
Like there was like things like that. Was there anything
different in Puerto Rico? What was it like filming there?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Yeah, it was a little bit more on island time,
So like the hustle that we're used to a little
bit in in the States was not always there. But
but that's and then like the humidity and it you know,
would rain just all of us that and like we
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were in our leather and I had it just you know,
it was like it was like all that kind of stuff,
but Puerto Rico is magic and it's incredible. And I,
because I speak Spanish, was just like, you know, the
liaison to everything was like, really, I have like a
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role in that world because I felt going into it,
I don't know if I'm gonna like be embraced by
everyone because I'm like older than they are. And it's like,
but I became like theiah, like Auntie. There was just
like let's go to this alsa club, Let's do that,
you know what I mean. Yeah, And and and I
loved the catering. I think everybody just loved having.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
The food was so good.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah, and just the talent they are the dancers were
just so so wonderful that they got from Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Was everyone were all the dancers from Puerto Rico or
was it like a mix?
Speaker 3 (43:03):
It was a mix. There was a lot of La
dancers that had they called them the Skeleton Skeleton crew,
so like they started everything and they were brought in
to Puerto Rico. And then I actually had a dance
double for the second movie because I couldn't learn all
of it because I didn't have time.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
That makes sense.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
For the most part, I did everything except for her
best summer ever. There were moments in that which whoever
wants to watch the movie again and try to see
where they could spinde.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Can you see it? Can you? Can you see the double?
Speaker 3 (43:43):
I can? But I was like, oh, this is one
of the perks of being in Puerto Rico too, because
we can find someone that actually looked like me. It
worked out and she was so so great. I'm like,
forgetting her name right now, Mari, Mari Angelli, Marie Angelly.
It was like a different name of Mari Angelly. And
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she was so so good, and she was always like,
you got this, and I'm like, no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Get it, No, I don'tagging you in you in okay.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
So one of the reasons you had you had no
time to rehearse is because you became a bella.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
We got to talk a little bit about this now.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Because it's there's very few cinematic universes to me that
raised to the level of art.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Oh my god, and pitch.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Perfect is up there.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
So had you were you a fan of Pitch Perfect one, Like,
had you known the film going in and all that
kind of stuff, or or so yeah, was this the
coolest thing in the world to get an audition or
how did you hear about this?
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Absolutely? I mean it was after you know, all the
Disney Channel stuff. And I remember being in the room
auditioning with like a lot of actresses and I'm like, oh,
and singers that I knew, And I was like, I'm
just gonna go in there and have fun, you know,
like at least I mean, just gonna have a good
audition and make them laugh or and and I went
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in and Elizabeth Banks was in the room already from.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Her by the way, got one of my favorites of
all time.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
I know, she's amazing and hilarious. And I got a
little nervous because I was like, I didn't I wasn't
expecting to see her here, okay, And you know, I
did my thing. They they laughed and stuff, and then
I think, uh, and then I sang, and I had
my mom was like, you know, Greasy, you have to
(45:37):
show them you speak Spanish, you know, And I'm like,
I think they could. I think they know, ma, but
I's like, you should sing some part of your song
in Spanish. And I was like, oh, that's actually good idea.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
Mom, that'll make it, that'll make them remember you idea.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
And I'm like nope. So I go to sing and
then suddenly, like I get to the park and I forget,
I forget the words in Spanish because it like and
I just was like, oh no, this is so terrible.
And I just I was like, oh, sorry, I should mention.
I'm gonna I'm gonna sing this little part in Spanish.
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So I'm just gonna start again. And now, you know,
Elizabeth was like, you didn't have to tell me. And
I was like, oh, I'm sure I.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
Could recognize Spanish.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
That's a good cover.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Though.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
That's a good cover, I know.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
And I started again and then I sang it and
it was fine, and I was like okay. And then
when I came back in, I think I don't know
exactly like why I got it over some of these
people that I just you know, really really talented too,
but it could have been like the second round. They
were like all of a sudden, like hey, improvise, then
(46:53):
give you anything to say, anything to do. They're like
you're at a campfire with all the bellas and just
and I was right, I got this, like I have
no bat like I have no shame, Like I do
anything and do it, and you know, I did ground
things and all that stuff. So I was like, I'm
(47:13):
I'm comfortable doing this. And and then I think that's
where they were like, we don't care. If you can dance,
you can come.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
So I'm like, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (47:24):
They told you in the room.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
No, literally like straight after, because it was like we
got to get you to baton rouge, like right away.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Yeah, I was the last person that they cast because
there were just two new bellas Hailee Steinfeld yeah and me.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
So now you're you're I have to imagine that going
into an established cast already kind of they've got their
group together. Was that daunting to walk on and kind
of say like, oh, I'm the new person and they
they already have their relationships and everything else. It's like
kind of like guest starring on a big show. Oh
you're like, oh god, it's this isn't my house yet.
Speaker 3 (48:02):
Yeah, totally. And like I you know, like you mentioned earlier,
like I was a fan of the first movie already
I had watched in a movie theater. I was like, Oh,
this is the kind of movie I want to be in,
you know, kind of put it on your vision board
kind of stuff, and you're just like if only And
I I don't even know the girls know this because
I don't. I never wanted them to think like, oh,
(48:24):
she's like our friends whatever. But like I watched the
behind the scenes. I watched like what Bella boot Camp
was about, you know, and just like to get the
feel of it before I got in there, and and
I was just like, I love them. They're just so
fun and cool, and so I had to try to
(48:44):
be like so chill when I walked in, but at
the same time, that's just like not who I am.
I'm very excitable, as you guys have to notice. So
I'm just like, oh my, I'm so happy to be here.
And like straight away they just like really embraced me.
And one weekend we went to New Orleans to party,
(49:07):
and that just cemented.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
That was it, all of it.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
Yeah, that was it so cool?
Speaker 4 (49:13):
How fun to be a part of like a giant
like female cast, Like that's just.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
It's so inspiring because like one of us like has
it's just so talented in their own right, and like
when we get together, it's just so supportive and we
like actually like I've been a bridesmaid for her weddings, baby,
you know, and like we've just been there for each other.
(49:41):
And I mean, Anna's celebrating her birthday. We're going on
a trip on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
Like, oh my gosh, how awesome.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Yeah, it's really really, really special, and I'm so grateful
for that experience. I'm grateful for teen Beach because a
part of me thinks, like if I didn't have teen Beach,
I don't know if like have gotten the opportunity to
audition for a pitch perfect and right.
Speaker 4 (50:04):
I mean, everything you do, every you know, new credit
on your resume opens a door for the next one
to come along. So it's like crazy cool if we
were to do going back to teen Beach, if there
was a teen Beach three, what would Chee Chee be doing?
(50:25):
Like where would she be?
Speaker 1 (50:28):
You know?
Speaker 3 (50:30):
I think that, Like I think maybe chi Chi is
kind of tired of being like a secondary character and
maybe finds like the necklace or the surfboard, and she's
like going to the real world and something out I've
(50:52):
always been interested in, Like what else is in the world,
Like it's just can't be big Mamas like or something.
Maybe she has her own, you know, hair salon.
Speaker 4 (51:03):
Hair salon. I was just gonna say her having a
hair salon seems like it makes like perfect sense. That'd
be so fun, oh adorable.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
So what But I think she's taking a little bit
more control of her situation and not just doing whatever.
Speaker 4 (51:17):
But she says, yes, that's great.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Okay, So final question, while we have you because we
don't want to keep you forever as much as we'd
love to. And you know, when we even though it
has nothing to do with Disney whatsoever, when we watch
all the.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Pitch perfect movies, we'll have you back if Okay.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
So, I guess the best way I would ask this
is because you said you were a little too old
for cheaty girls. Yeah, but everyone you know, your your
nieces loved cheata girls. But your favorite Disney Channel movies,
I guess just said, did you grow up watching Disney
Channel at all? And if you did, what was your
favorite Disney Channel movie?
Speaker 3 (51:57):
Oh? My god, what was my favorite us? Hocus Pocus
on Disney Channel?
Speaker 2 (52:03):
No, yeah, I guess, I guess it's a Disney movie.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
It was in the theaters hocus Pocus though, so it
was technically a DCM.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
But we can allow for focus, Yeah, pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
Really yeah, theaters, my gosh, but I can allow hocus pocus.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
That's a good answer.
Speaker 3 (52:16):
Yeah, I mean it's a classic and it's Yeah, when
did d com start? You guys would know this.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
It depends on what version of the because there's some
that are i mean, Wonderful World at Disney and the
Disney Sunday Night Movie stuff like that have been around
since the fifties and the sixties, but the actual Disney
channel that we know in love is like ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
No, it's even a little no U ninety one. I
think it was the one I think.
Speaker 4 (52:47):
Came out in like mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
I think, yeah, Break was a little later.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
The first one was we haven't watched it yet, it's yeah,
Undercover Raps I think is the first one that that
came out. Yeah, so yeah, that was was under Wraps
that though it was ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
That's like it went from that to like it was
like like Brink wasn't too long after that, Johnny Tsunami.
Then you have I had of you laters like with
like Smart House.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
Yeah, look of the Irish.
Speaker 4 (53:18):
Luck of the Irish.
Speaker 3 (53:19):
I'm going to tell you how old I am but
like in nineteen ninety seven when all those dcoms started
coming out, I was already in seventh grade, so I
feel like I was just like getting a little too old,
like going into high school, and wasn't watching like yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Okay, that's okay. Well then you can just say teen Beach. Yeah,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
Thank you so much for joining us. This has been awesome.
I just to get a little glimpse into not only
teen Beach but also Pitch perfect exciting day for me.
Speaker 4 (53:50):
Yes, but what a great journey it's been too, like
so fun, great projects, like awesome.
Speaker 3 (53:58):
I'm very grateful. I feel like that little girl singing
Whitney Houston would be so so proud.
Speaker 4 (54:05):
It'd be like, hell, yeah you made it, you made it.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
Oh. Can you imagine too, though, how much better all
of us would be if we had that same confidence
as adults that we had as kids.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
I mean, come on, curious, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
Know what happens? Is this going to turn into therapy?
Speaker 1 (54:21):
Now?
Speaker 2 (54:22):
It's mine always does?
Speaker 4 (54:23):
That's do you know what shocks the hell of saying
you guys saw on my phone when I was showing
you pictures. I was at a wedding last night, it
shocks people how much I do not dance at weddings
or things like that.
Speaker 1 (54:33):
When you do something for a living, kind of you
don't want to do it at other places.
Speaker 4 (54:37):
Yeah, but it's so it freaks everyone out. They're like,
why aren't you out there? And I'll just like sit
by a table and kind of groove. They're expecting me
to go out there and like do my chop chop
from dancing with the only place.
Speaker 2 (54:47):
That's the only place I dance.
Speaker 4 (54:48):
Is that really?
Speaker 3 (54:49):
Because I'm like karaoke, I'm like, no, I would not.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
Say I if I get thrown up on a stage
for karaoke. I'm doing shoop from I'm not doing a song.
I'm doing like some kind of rat song thing. I'm
not doing. I'm not doing Winny Houston. I'll tell you that,
you forget I do.
Speaker 3 (55:10):
Forget about dre there, there.
Speaker 2 (55:12):
You go, There you go.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
I love.
Speaker 4 (55:14):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1 (55:19):
And yes, we'd love to have you back at some
point if you'd like to come and play. Yes, okay, good,
and we'll pitch it. We'll get on that team beach
three pitch.
Speaker 4 (55:25):
Yeah, yeah, we'll get that going. We'll get that going
bye bye bye.
Speaker 1 (55:35):
Oh man, she's amazing the idea that you've you've done
a movie and you're waiting for the movie to come
out while you're still like waiting tables and you had
this big dramatic walkout and then so.
Speaker 4 (55:46):
Good, so good.
Speaker 2 (55:47):
So many Hollywood stories like that.
Speaker 4 (55:49):
I have like a regular job of any sort. Besides
I worked.
Speaker 1 (55:52):
At a motorcycle factor or a motorcycle uh shop, like
selling stuff in front for half of one day when
I was like thirteen, for half of what.
Speaker 2 (56:03):
Yeah. Other than that, I've played characters that had real jobs.
Speaker 4 (56:07):
That's so joky, that's it.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
Have you ever had a real job?
Speaker 4 (56:10):
Yes, I worked at a tanning salon for like a
year and half when I was in college.
Speaker 2 (56:14):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (56:16):
Yes, and after The Cheetah Girls. Because The Cheetah Girls
I filmed my freshman year in college, and then it
didn't come out for that next year. Then it came out,
and I was making such good money at the because
I was on a commission base thing.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
I kept going.
Speaker 4 (56:32):
I just like I liked having a job. I liked
being busy, I liked you know. Yeah, so yeah, I
worked at a tanning salon for a long time now.
I can't even imagine going into a tanning bed like
at all. I do all but like it's so crazy
for me to be all spray tan but I won't.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
I like playing characters that have real jobs.
Speaker 1 (56:48):
It's fun. So thank you all so much for joining us,
and thank you Christy for joining us.
Speaker 4 (56:53):
It's yes, she is awesome. What a cool journey. Can
you imagine the anxiety of not having any real soul
no espetually for someone like she's like saying, she's like
like not a dancer.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
Like yeah, no, I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (57:04):
You can move, but she doesn't have the training.
Speaker 1 (57:07):
I have dreams like that where it's like you don't
know the lines, you haven't done this. This is our actor dreams,
and I don't like them. So thank you everybody for
joining us, and join us next time as we review
more movies and talk to more awesome people because that's
what we do here on the Magical rewind Machine, and
don't forget to join us on the Instagram machine at
Magical rewind Pod.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
Thank you everybody, and we'll see you next time. Bye bye,
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