October 13, 2025 • 36 mins
Everything is not what it seems…. But we’re sure David Henrie is on the pod! Justin Russo himself joins Will and Sabrina to talk about “Wizards of Waverly Place”, the reboot, Disney Channel Games and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you everybody for joining us on this part copper
episode of Magical Rewinded.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Man, do we have a special one for you this week?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I know we say that every week and we've never
been lying because well, I don't lie, Sobrina lies quite
a bit, but I don't ever lie. But man, are
we excited for this week's episode because we have once
again Disney Channel Royalty joining us, and he's joining us
in the midst of just a huge press junket, So
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we are very very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Please help us.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Welcome from Wizards and Raven and Dad Napped and a
whole bunch of stuff we're going to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
David Henry, what's up you guys? How are you good
to see you both?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You as well?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Are you just over answering the same nine questions over
and over again?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
No, we just had lunch, so I'm like totally back
to life. It'll be like the first time.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, good, Hey, were there any pranks on the set? No,
I'm kidding. Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You know the drill? You know the drill.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, welcome, We are so excited to have you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You are absolutely Disney Channel Royalty for us, so we
are just honored that you were able to join us today.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Well, likewise, I'm big fans of both of yours and
will love I loved I loved watching you growing up,
so this is this is fun.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, speaking of growing up, how did we love to
ask people their origin stories?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
What? How did you?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You came from Mission Viejo, right, which is where where
my wife is from as well.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
And I'm from Orange County as well too.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Let's go everybody there.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So how did you get into this wonderful business of show?
What made you decide to become an actor? You know,
I had a big Italian family. My grandfather immigrated here
from Sicily, and he was always a character. He was
always a larger than life personality that just kept the
family entertained, and I looked up to him. I wanted
to be like him, so I became a storyteller like him.
I became a performer like him.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
And you know, when it was Christmas or Easter, I'd
put on little shows or I'd make little movies for
my family and it got big responses, to the point
where I remember a commercial came on TV for like
a Hollywood manager and looking back on it. I cannot
believe I got my mom to call because like it screams,
screams scam. But this was like the one legit one
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and my mom and dad are very protective over me,
and they vetted this lady and I got a meeting.
I went from Mission Video at Arizona. So I flew
from Arizona there and I got an audition for Burger King,
Like randomly, the lady liked me. I got an audition
for Burger King. I booked it and just kept kept
doing it like I just kept like, I got like
four commercials in a row and then started getting into
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TV and I just loved it. You know that my
parents supported me like you support a kid in a sport,
which I think is essential for kid actors. You guys
know this world, but like just like I do. But
like the second the parents start working for the kid
and not the other way around, danger zone. So I
was very grateful that I had a healthy environment.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Oh god, So for a long time, were you coming
back in from Arizona or was that like a short
stint or was there I mean, that's a lot, that's
a lot that's farther than coming from Orange County to La.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You guys will remember back in the day, there was
this thing called pilot season, which was ya. Yes, it
was a season that we would come in for. You know,
actors now watching, you have no idea what this is.
It's just in the history books for you.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Guys, yep.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
But it was a very big season that you would
come in where there would be tons of auditions. You'd
come in for like two or three months, and it
was the thing like you prepped all year for pilot
season and it was a huge deal. And so I
started coming in for pilot season and eventually got got
on my first show, a Fox show where I was
like the kid series regular and I was like twelve
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or thirteen, And that was the first big thing that
I got. And then that slowly turned. You know, the
second a kid actor gets a thing, Disney's like, we're
tracking him.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Right, Yeah? Wait, was this Method?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Then read this is the Pits?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And then Method and Red Okay one to the next
Yeah with the Rappers, Method Man and Red Men?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Which is I mean?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Was?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It must have been such a amazingly weird set to
be on all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I smelled smells. I'd never smelled in my life that point.
It was.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
You was like, all right, here's enough of this, We're
hopping over to the Disney Channel.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It was yeah, my yep.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
There was a couple like uh, you know, cup your
eyes moments. But I will say that those guys were
like the ultimate gentleman to me, and we're actually really cool.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
But yeah, it was. It was an environment that I
now know.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
And when what was your first audition that you had
at the channel? Do you remember which, which what role
you auditioned for? First?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I auditioned for a lot different Channel shows, but the
first one that I got was that so but and
I think that might have been an offer because they
saw me on they saw me on Method and Red
and and then then they got me on on that show.
I think that was an offer. But before that, I
auditioned for like everything on the twenty first floor. Also,
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young actors watching the twenty first floors Channel building.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
No longer talk about it so much.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That's where everyone got their jobs. I mean, that's where
everyone booked their thing.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And I mean it was so weird going back in
that room now as a producer to cast guys, because
like the second I walked in there like PTSD.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I just got like.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Guts going up the like your your stomach starting to
hurt going up the elevator.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You're walking off going oh, I went stiff. Yeah, I
went stiff, and like, yeah, it was it was crazy.
It was crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I got to do the zombies breast junket and it
just even being in the elevator. I didn't even go
all the way up to the twenty first floor. I
think I went up to like seventeenth floor, and I
was like, yeah, I'm close enough.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I'm close enough.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Real thing, yes, and now, but you got to be
on the other side time around, and you got to
do the auditions and all of that for this time.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, we were.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
We were one of the last shows to cast in
that room before they shut it down.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, geez. That's really cool though.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Talk about a full circle moment where you know, yeah,
you get your your first booking there and now you're
sitting there and you're getting to help, you know, create
the new stars, the stars of the next generation.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yes, and for all the kids auditioning too, Like I
did the things that no one ever did for me
when I, you know, auditioned, Like there's this one kid
that came in and he froze up. And you know,
it's front of the network, It's in front of everyone,
and this is a ten year old, eleven year old kid.
You know, he froze He like literally couldn't talk. And
I just took him my side and I was like, hey, man,
let's go let's go outside. Let's go outside and hang
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for a minute. And I sat with him in front
of one of the offices and just talked to him
for like and I was like, Hey, what you're going
through is totally normal. I can't tell you how I
felt this before and how I've been struck with nerves
and I froze up before. And this is not going
to be a bad moment for you, buddy, I promise you.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And you're gonna feel good.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I'm not letting you leave until you feel good and
you feel like you've done the thing. Okay, this is
the dragon you're going to slay. And then afterwards you
brought his dad into the room. That dad got to
come into the room and we had a conversation like literally,
I was like flashing to my therapy going like, what
would I have wanted someone to say.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Me in this movement? And we did. We did the thing.
I think we prevented a wound.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So you get to do that stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
What's the I mean, obviously, you guys your set life
for the Original Wizards versus now what what do you
feel like your favorite transitional part is that you've had
you've gotten a chance to do on on the set.
I mean, is it options or opportunities to mentor like
what you were just saying that you clearly did for
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this little stranger kid, Like that's just so awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Like and I'm a dad now too, so Like I
think you guys grew up in the business you understand this, right,
Like when you're a kid actor, you just see a
lot and you see the good, the bad, and the ugly. Sure,
And I just always took notes of like one day
I'm going to if I ever get in a position
of power, I'm going to do things a certain way.
So the big thing for me was like, I'm going
to help create a culture here that I think is
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healthy for kids. And the biggest mistake I saw growing
up was like no one was you didn't you didn't
acknowledge the fact that it is a kid.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Like it was expected them to act like an adult.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Expect them to act like an adult, and that's just
not true. And I'm not saying don't be serious. I'm like,
don't do a good job and don't be excellent. But
you have to have an extra set of lenses to
just go, this is not an adult. This is a kid.
And this kid experiencing emotions and feelings with grown up
people all around them that they've never felt in their
entire life. And it's abnormal. And someone needs to pull
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that kid aside at some point and go it is abnormal,
Like this is a weird situation that you're in. This
is not normal, but we're gonna embrace that. We're gonna
have fun with it. Okay, you're kid, We're gonna try
to get you to enjoy that. So I really worked
hard to create an atmosphere that was like very acknowledged,
acknowledge the fact that these kids are kids. Treat them
like kids, don't treat them like little adults or like
this utilitarian approach to like people, like let's let's treat
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them like human beings and appropriate for their age.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
So we've been wonderful, really.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Hard on that because I had some bad experiences and like, yeah,
we all did do that again, Yeah exactly, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And so that's no, that's great to hear that that.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You know, there's one of the things that my fellow
castmates that I talk about all the time is exactly that,
like what we would change if we could, and it
was the fact that we were treated like adults and
we weren't. So uh yeah, no, that's that's amazing. You
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have one of the rare opportunities to be essentially kind
of on the same set as both a young actor
and then as an adult producer. One of the things
I'm so curious about is how different is a set
that now involves something like social media as opposed to
when we were coming up, when there wasn't that instant
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kind of either gratification or frankly somebody bashing you. What
I mean, what is the difference between being on a
set with no social media and a set with social media?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Man, I feel like we could talk the entire podcast
about this, because you talk about it a lot, right.
There was like an intimacy to being an actor before
social media. There was a an honesty. You didn't feel
like you're being watched, you know, so you could could
just kind of do your thing, and there was a
healthy separation between like what you do as a as
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a person and as an actor, and then and then
going home, there was like a really healthy separation. Now
everyone is following you everywhere and you don't have that here,
and it's just different. It's just different, you know, And
and I don't know what to make of it. I
really don't. I miss in a lot of ways being
able to just feel a little more free and a
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little less judged and a little less judged quickly, Like
you used to have like eight or nine months to
just chill before the thing would come out, and then
and then you can read a couple of reviews and
you don't get like ten thousand freaking things coming into
people's opinions. So you got to get I think it's
now more important than ever to have proper mental health
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and to like develop a separation between what you do
and what people think.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Like that.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
It's so much more important I think now than yeah,
than in the past.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Well, there's also I mean, one of the things that
I is so interesting that I wanted to talk a
little bit about is the fact that Nowadays, if something
is a hit, you know instantly it's a hit, or
if people hate it, you know instantly that they hate it.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So when when you did the.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Original Wizards, at what moment did you look around with
your fellow cast or say to yourself or realize, wow,
we've really got something on our hands here, and people.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Are like, yeah, it's a good question.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
It wasn't until like the the we were filming the
third season, Like the first one came out and it
did well enough to like go again, right, so shot
the second season and then we got the pick up.
We started filming as second season was coming out, and
that's when all of us started getting really recognized. And
that was also when Disney Channel was like in a
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different day and age. It was a totally different day
and age than than it is now. You know, everything's
on Plus the fandom was only on Disney and Nickelodeon
and one or two other plays. All kids only had
a couple channels to go to. That was where all
of their entertainment was. Now you got YouTube and then
you know, you have so many different ways to watch it.
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And I talked about that with my cast too, because
they're like, what is it going to be like the
videos we saw of you and Selena back in the
day where stadiums are going crazy over you and different
things like that. And I was like, guys, I just
I don't know. Back in the day, you had two
channels to watch Disney.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Every Kid in the World on repeat, on repeat, on repeat,
on repeat. If you didn't miss if you missed the
first twenty times of the day that they they premiered
that episode, don't worry, They're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Another swatch of fifteen. You're good, You're gonna catch it.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Un Like you literally only had like five shows and
any given time that you could watch the whole world
of kids, would you watch like those? And now it's
it's just so different. So I don't know, you know,
it's like, it's just it's just different. It's just it's
so different.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Was there a moment when I mean, the chemistry between
you and Selena was it? Was it a moment like
was it as early on as like your audition period,
or was it the pilot, Like at what point did
you or did you get it really chance to recognize
how special the chemistry between the two of you were
on that on that cast.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it was It was pretty immediate.
I I I was actually cast first because they had
a version of the show that was different. It was
like they were trying to find their new even Stevens.
So they had me lead a boy lead show, like
a more male skewing show, and Selena was like then
they said, oh, we found this girl out of Texas.
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We think she's going to be big. She's going to
be your twin sister, but she'll be number two on
the show. And we did a pilot for a totally
different show called The Amazing O'Malley's that didn't test very well.
Turns out you should have you should lead with girls,
a good move in hindsight, and and then it all changed,
and then and then Selena was number one.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I was right behind her. But in that dynamic I think.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Helped click, like a perfect dynamic for us because I
was always meant to be her older brother.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I was always older than her.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
We were never meant to be twins, and I always
acted like an older brother too. I gave her crap,
you know, and she she didn't have an older brother,
and she liked that I gave her crap. I never
to this day. You know, she knows I'm gonna be me.
So it's it's big good relationship because I think I'm
one of the few people in her life that that
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she just knows. She doesn't you know, there's nothing to
prove or there's no angles. You know, I'm not trying
to get anything out of her.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I love that. That's amazing. The kids are phenomenal. I mean,
holy cow, the the talent, the versatility that they have, like,
but they also do as well look like they have
the best chemistry, Like they look like they're having so
much fun together. Are you being able to see that?
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And I mean that's got to be so nostalgic for
you watching them as well.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It was so cool.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
And this was one of the first shows that we
actually got to do in person chemistry reads a couple
of two and a half or three years ago. Now,
like a lot of kids were coming in the audition
were saying, this is my first time doing an in
person read ever, because a lot of these kids acting. God,
a lot of these kids started acting in COVID. So
your kids come in and say, this is my first
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ever in person read.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Oh Man was like, unbelieve.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
The whole generation of actors came out of COVID right
of Kids, and well, that was so cool to like
not have to do a zoom chemistry to get them
in person, to mix and match in person, and they
just nailed it.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Like it.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's a big lesson for me as an actor, like
to get to sit behind the producer's chair and actually
be involved in those rooms and see the decision making
that goes on with Gary marsh right, who I'm sure
you all know that much. When you hear Gary, it's
like he sends a cold shiver down your spine and
again he makes the decisions right. It's good to finally
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be a partner of Gary's and be here like hiring kids.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It was so cool.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
It was It was so cool to see because it
took the pressure off of me as an actor, because
as an actor I always was like, if I don't
get it, it's my fault, Like I didn't do a
good enough job, I didn't win it over. I knew
I could have done that line a little better. I
knew I could have done this a little better. And
that is so far away from the truth. The truth
is you're either right for it or you're not, and
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that is both look and talent. Like it was never
the comments were rarely about acting. It was really just
about oh, that's it, like he's the guy. Yeah you know, yeah,
you just know, and it has it still has nothing
to do with like the exact way you perform the line,
because by the time you get to the chemistry read
you're all good enough.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, you're all talented, you all got to the thing,
you all got there, and it's just like, well, that's
the person.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
That literally was it like with all of us, it
was just there was no the cast we have now,
there was no other choice. It was just that's the person,
and it is very clear.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And those other kids that didn't get the part might
be the person in a different role where they're going
to get there, and that they're going to be the
person when they walk in.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
You just never know a million percent. It was like
it gave me a perspective of going into rooms now
just going I'm right for this or I'm not. Yeah,
I'm just gonna do my thing and I'm the guy
or I'm not. And yes, those kids absolutely will be
the right person for the right thing. It's just a
mixture of all the elements that make it make sense.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Right, Okay, So one of the things we have to
talk about while you're here. There's two more things we
really have to address. The first one is not controversial
at all. The second one we're going to get into
some stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
We're going on. I had a feeling it was going
to get controversial with you guys.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So the first.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
One we have to talk about is Dad Napped because
we we do d cooms here and so we reviewed
Dad Nap. We've also talked to George Newbern and we've
talked to and you're getting there too, but we have
knighted several people, so we've talked to Sir Jason Earls
as well.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh exactly. So we're just wondering what was that.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Because we've heard some just bonkers thing just about the
experience of shooting, to.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
The point where I said, so, what was Dad Nap like?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
And George was like, I don't know if I I
can even describe that film in any way, shape or form.
He goes, I literally am not sure I could describe it.
So curious, what was it like doing Dad NAPPT.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
So you know, to take it back and a step
here when you do a show, so you guys know this,
but for people watching, like when you do a Disney
Channel show, you have in your deal you're going to
do original movies, right, it doesn't mean you're going to
do them. It doesn't mean they'll exercise that option. But
the time came for me when it was like, hey,
we want you to do this this movie. And I
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had never really gone by myself somewhere before. I think
it was eighteen, you know, so it was like my
first time going to a place alone to like shoot.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
A thing all really yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yeah, And I got my own like rental car. And
I don't know how they gave me a rental car
eighteen but like you know, I don't, by the way,
I have no idea how that happened.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I have no idea how I got a rental car.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But you can't. Was it in Toronto Salt Lakes didy
You can get them.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Under twenty five You just the insurance they have to
pay as a ridiculu this amount of money to pay
to rent like an eighteen or nineteen year old rental car.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
And by the way, I get it because I was
not responsible, Like the second they gave me this car
and I realized it wasn't my car, and like I
could do whatever the heck I wanted. Like I pulled
very carefully out of the place, you know, bye bye.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Bye, and I just floored it.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I was like like front wheel drive and the front
tires were like.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Skidding out and like, oh my god. I was like,
I'm free. I'm on my own, like I'm a teenager,
I'm no parents here. It can turn the music up.
I was like, this is awesome, man.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
And then you're in Salt Lake City, right, like the
cleanest place in America. You like lick the doors and
like people are like, who is this crazy guy? And
like turning out, you know they're in bed at like
six forty five, like and yeah, it was it was
an experience. It was an experience. And then Emily Osmond
that was my first like on screen kiss, and I
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remember it was like so cold, my nose was running.
I was nervous, and I was like, yeah, wipe your
nose before your first on screen kids, and like oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Oh, and then we almost freaking died. We literally almost died.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Me and Emily, if you have Emily on the show,
asked tell her, ask her to tell you this experience okay.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
We it was like snowing, and her dad was there.
It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
And we went on a trip somewhere I don't remember where,
but it was a lot lot of snow and we're
driving far, so we drove like an hour somewhere, and
then we did drive like an hour back and as
we're coming back, the snow was so thick on the
ground that there were like two tire marks on the
freeway snow in between and then snow on the outside,
and you had to stay in the tire marks to
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be safe.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
And we're going like.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Forty miles an hour, fifty miles an hour, and we
start to feel it biting. So we start to feel
and the whole car is kind of kind of doing
this kind of thing right, and then we just go.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Oh no, oh no's.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I'm in the back seat, Emily is in the front,
her dad is driving, and I remember I put my
seatbelt behind me, which huge mistake in hindsight. As we're
spinning and I leaned forward and I became like a therapist.
I literally was like, you got this, miss draws man,
you got it. Stay calm, like steak calm, you got this.
Just breathe yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
You were producing the car accident. I mean literally, like
it was it was pure.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Instinct to do this, like pure instinct. Yeah, it was
like something took over me and I just like started
like calming.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Him, like I need to be calm right now, and
the soothness of my voice, my soothing voice will just
get you through this.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Oh and it was a freaking miracle. We we finished spinning,
we land in the middle section. There was a cliff
on the other side, and we land in the middle
section and it was that like awkward five seconds of
just like land and oh my gosh, all of us
like turn to mister Osmond's like me embling. And there
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was one other guy I think was a guy named
Jonathan celt It might have even been George.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
But we all were just like.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Way to go.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
We didn't die.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Wo Okay, we'll have to ask about that.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
I wouldn't drive the remainder amount of time, that is
until late that you would not catch me driving a
car at all after that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Sure, we just sat there for a while and not
like Emily and I laughed about that to this day.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It's like, yeah, okay, and now to get now, to
get controversial.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
We're going to do it after the death after after
the death defying.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
We're getting controversial here, We're going there the Disney Channel Games.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yes, Disney Channel Games. We did a recap of the games.
Here was the captain both the Jason's on.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
We had Jason Earls on and uh Sir Jason Dolly
on because they thought each one thought the other had
won the the uh uh sciences competition and there was
a little bit of beef happening, so we had to
bring it back to the show. What was being team
Captain like? And what was your experience at the Disney
Channel Games.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I mean this was like Disney Channel gone wild. Like
if you bring all of these Disney Channel crazy people
all into one environment, there's no social media, We're all
finally getting to hang out together, and we just had
a freaking blast. So we just went wild like we
were competing. We you know, we were taking it serious.
We're like, I'm gonna kick kick your like we're taking
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it serious, and like hanging out at night, everyone's in
the jacuzzi and just like it was just it was
so fun. We could not have had as much fun
if there was social media one percent. Yeah, I remember
I was sitting on my like we're at my hotel
room is in Florida. I'm sitting on the balcony and
Miley's two floors above me with the phone on speaker,
just just like having a full on conversation for the
(25:07):
entire I was like trying to like hit her. Like Miley,
the entire place is like knowing what they're talking about
right now.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
All of the Animal Kingdom Hotel, can hear you?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, the drafts are like all in it.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well we are.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
We are attempting by literally just talking about it and
not doing anything else but attempting to get the Disney
Channel games to be reinstated with all the original players.
So we want to bring everybody back and have one
more go at the Disney Channel games.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Dude, you know what you Okay, I'm in And let
me just add to the equation. You need to get
like mister Beast involved, right and have him crap like this.
It's like mister Beat's Channel games and it's like because
his stuff that he does is crazy, Like have him
take the Disney Channel games to like a whole other level, yah,
and have like the og people there and then new
kids there and then mister Beast the whole thing and
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it's like game.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
We'll do We'll find a way to do it for
charity again, so it'll be it's a but that's that's
the plan.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So we've got to do that. Okay, all right, done, Well,
we we know we're coming to the end of this.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So there's just beyond Waverley Places out right now right,
people can watch it on Disney Plus.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Disney Plus check it out. We do some things in
the show that are like jaw dropping. Selena and Janie
really bring some really powerful emotional moments where I'm like,
this is emmy stuff right here.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Like they they watch it, they're so good. And uh.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
We brought some drama in the show in addition to
the heart and comedy that you don't usually do in sitcoms,
because we're like, it's a twenty twenty five sitcom, let's
just go there, let's blur the lines. This is it's
more serialized, like we we we're trying things, we're trying things.
It's got a big ending. So I'm excited for people
to people to check it out at any.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Guests appearances that we can have a little noice knowledge
about anyone to look forward to that's going to pop
up in the middle of the season.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
So Freya Skuy, who's one of the big big Disney
stars right now, comes on the show.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Is great.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
And then we have Bill Kott, who was one of
the original actors from the show. He comes back, and
there's a couple other surprises. Well, of course Selena is
there for the big finale, so we're we're excited.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh, that's gonna be great. We can't wait.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Well, congratulations, it's awesome everything you've done. Also, as an
old school sitcom fan, seeing that people are still doing
real television is so amazing. So thank you so much
because we need it. We need a ton more of it.
So and for our final question, which we like to
ask everybody.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
M Oh, this is a good one. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
What was your favorite d com of all time?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Brink?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That's everybody's damp favorite one, but it's always a toss
up that which was one of my favorite.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Johnny Johnnysuonami love Johnny Tsunami, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
And then there's different dimensions of the Brink is like
the one that sticks out.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I don't know, does a beloved thing, Like, oh yeah,
I was skateboarding at the time and rollerblading and like
that was just like center of the bulls eye for me.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Like yes, so cool.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
So did you prefer brink or airborne brink? Okay, wow,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Just the cast everyone was so freaking cool.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
I still go back and like watch clips and I'm like, yeah,
I was right, like that.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
They've all been on the show too, and they are
love their exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Motocross, like I like motocross. I liked uh uh was
the one when Raven's a little girl?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Uh Zita Slapida?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That one I thought was fun.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
I mean there's so many, Yeah, there are so many.
We've watched so many of them. There's majority of them hits.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
So well, well, we'll let you go and do all
your other stuff, but we were holding you to once
again coaching one of the teams for the New Beast
Disney Channel games in.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Like I saved you both for your time. Really appreciate
this is than This is amazing, very.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Nice meeting you, Hi, man, that was cool. The idea
that and I got to I've gotten to witness this
kind of firsthand because this happened with boy Meets World
and then Girl Meets World where you get to see
kind of two sets, and Danielle and Official and Ben
Savage came back as producers on Girl Meets World. And
(29:24):
I have my own issues with girmyt World, and I
wasn't really involved, thankfully, but to see and hear stories
about like, for instance, him sitting in the room to
audition somebody and if kid freezes up and he takes
him outside and talks to him and turns exactly what
he said what could have been a horrible wound that
you're going to remember for the rest of your life,
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especially as an actor.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Into something where it's like a good learning lesson but
you're okay with it. That's yeah, I mean amazing to
hear it.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
It makes me go, oh, now, I want to go
visit the set and watch him in action with this
like young set of Disney Channel stars, knowing that he
is probably just passing the torch, not just like within characters,
but truly like helping them navigate what is now such
a scary world on set, you know, it's so different,
(30:12):
especially him saying how important you know mental health is now?
And I mean you can just like you just that
small thing. I mean, he's always been such a great guy,
but it seems like he's just turned into such an
amazing mentor for.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
These yeah, and an advocate for what being a child
actor should be as opposed to what it was, which
actually he said it right. You know it's not I've
been in this business for forty years. I started when
I was ten years old. I had some bad experiences.
It was not an awful experience all the way around.
You have great things that happen right, very healthy things
that happened to you. But if you can then couch
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that with being more active when it comes to making
it a better environment to be in, and you have
mentors like that, it just it shows you what the
new generation will be.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Because he's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I mean, I would leave the set of Boy Me's
World and I go home to my apartment and that
was it. I wasn't reading about boy Meets World. I
wasn't reading about myself personally. You could shut it off totally,
and you can't do that anymore. It's like they say
that when you when you used to be bullied in school,
when you went home, that was a safe place because
the book you weren't with your bullying. The bullying is
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that's not the case anymore now it's all digital and virtual.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, it doesn't stop. And fame is the same way now,
celebrity and fame don't go away. You are famous twenty
four to seven now.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
And so him being able to recognize that and being
able to mentor the new kids coming up, like, all right,
I was there first.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I know what it's like.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I know you're big in social media, but here's how
we got to figure it out. I mean, that is
just going to make for a much healthier version of
a child actor.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Absolutely, and treating the kid like allowing the kids to
be kids like that is such a huge thing. And
like you said, he's not trying to take the limelight
off of you know, this is a job. This is
you know, you need to you need to practice, you
need to be prepared, like the professionalism of that. Some
of those aspects are obviously needing to be there. However,
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you are going to react and handle things very different
than us adults because you're still learning about a lot
of things. Yeah, you know, it's it's different for kids.
And so I think that is one of the things
that I would think was for me the only part
sometimes of like anything kind of going on set and
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you just like learning to just be completely quiet, you know,
and not react to it because you didn't want to
laugh or you didn't want to do something that would
like make you look like, oh, she's too young and
too underprofessional to handle this. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
It was also I mean there was there were times
where I was on sets when I was twelve or thirteen,
where I'd be smoking cigarettes and we'd finish working for
the day and one of the producers would offer.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Me a beer. I was twelve, Wow, So did I
have it? No, I didn't take it. I just I
didn't start drinking till I was like twenty five.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
But I'd like to think stuff like that doesn't happen
anymore where you know, a kid at twelve years old
goes to try to light a cigarette and everyone's going
to be like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Where are your parents?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Like that?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
It wasn't like that back in the day.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
My parents when they turn their back, I'd smoke a
cigarette and I'd be sitting there with the you know,
the team stirs that would be like, hey man, can
I blump one?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I mean, that was normal.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So the new hopefully the new normal is more producers
like him, and it's it is navigating a much healthier
lifestyle for a child actor and to hear stuff like
that and to know they're still making the kind of
product that they are over at the Yes, and.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
The show is huge and people.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I mean, it's easy for someone like David Henry or
Selena Gomez to be like, I don't need Wizards of
Waverley Place in my life anymore. I'm doing ten thousand
other things. I'm a huge star. But it shows how
important it was in their lives and how important it
is on the Channel that they both still wanted to
be involved. It's like, no, we want to be doing these.
I think Selena Gomez needs to go on beyond Wizards
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of Waverley Place or David Henry does, but they.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Want to yes, because she it seems like she's just
so I mean, I've met her a handful of times,
but it just seems as she's gotten older, she's gotten
more and more grounded versus getting lifted up into the skies.
She's gotten grounded, and she is thankful and appreciative of
what the Channel gave her. She didn't try to fight
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it and try to really get shit. I'm not a
kid anymore. She embraced it, and I think that's one
of the most amazing things about her is she truly
embraces everything the Channel gave to her. And that is huge,
because you're right, not everyone does that, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
So yeah, no, very very cool. Well, everybody, don't forget.
Wizards Beyond Waverley Place is out now.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
It's so good, so all the nostalgia of the original one.
The new cast is so talented and it's a great watch.
Like I can't wait until it is on the Channel
because I or on Disney Plus, because I literally that's
a show I one hundred percent want my kid watch.
It's funny, it's got magic, it's just it's so good.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Well perfect sounds like perfect Disney Channel show. And I'm
still calling it the Disney Channel.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I know it's Disney Plus and I know it's a
whole different thing, but it's still the Channel. So thank
you everybody for joining us, and thank you David for
taking the time, because we know you're in the middle
of doing all the press right now and you're answering
the same nine questions over and over again.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
We've all been there, so we appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Doubt he was by Dad napped or Disney Channel game
probably not a very different for him.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, those are probably not, so that's good. And by
the way, he's on it's on the.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Record here that he said he will absolutely come back
and coach one of the teams when we bring back
the Disney Channel games. I love his idea of getting
mister Beast involved. But yes, we are going to find
a way to get Disney to bring back the Disney
Channel games, and then Sabrina and I are going to
be the two like the commentators sitting there is we're
doing all that kind of stuff. So thank you everybody
(35:53):
for joining us, and don't forget to join us next
time over on our other feed where we are going
to be watching that little film from uh what was
her name again, zen zen Zendia zappt, So go check
that out next time.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
So you're all cut up and then homework will be done.
Thanks everybody, we'll see you next time.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Bye.
Thank you everybody for joining us on this part copper
episode of Magical Rewinded.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Man, do we have a special one for you this week?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I know we say that every week and we've never
been lying because well, I don't lie, Sobrina lies quite
a bit, but I don't ever lie. But man, are
we excited for this week's episode because we have once
again Disney Channel Royalty joining us, and he's joining us
in the midst of just a huge press junket, So
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we are very very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Please help us.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Welcome from Wizards and Raven and Dad Napped and a
whole bunch of stuff we're going to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
David Henry, what's up you guys? How are you good
to see you both?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You as well?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Are you just over answering the same nine questions over
and over again?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
No, we just had lunch, so I'm like totally back
to life. It'll be like the first time.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, good, Hey, were there any pranks on the set? No,
I'm kidding. Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You know the drill? You know the drill.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, welcome, We are so excited to have you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You are absolutely Disney Channel Royalty for us, so we
are just honored that you were able to join us today.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Well, likewise, I'm big fans of both of yours and
will love I loved I loved watching you growing up,
so this is this is fun.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, speaking of growing up, how did we love to
ask people their origin stories?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
What? How did you?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You came from Mission Viejo, right, which is where where
my wife is from as well.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
And I'm from Orange County as well too.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Let's go everybody there.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So how did you get into this wonderful business of show?
What made you decide to become an actor? You know,
I had a big Italian family. My grandfather immigrated here
from Sicily, and he was always a character. He was
always a larger than life personality that just kept the
family entertained, and I looked up to him. I wanted
to be like him, so I became a storyteller like him.
I became a performer like him.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
And you know, when it was Christmas or Easter, I'd
put on little shows or I'd make little movies for
my family and it got big responses, to the point
where I remember a commercial came on TV for like
a Hollywood manager and looking back on it. I cannot
believe I got my mom to call because like it screams,
screams scam. But this was like the one legit one
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and my mom and dad are very protective over me,
and they vetted this lady and I got a meeting.
I went from Mission Video at Arizona. So I flew
from Arizona there and I got an audition for Burger King,
Like randomly, the lady liked me. I got an audition
for Burger King. I booked it and just kept kept
doing it like I just kept like, I got like
four commercials in a row and then started getting into
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TV and I just loved it. You know that my
parents supported me like you support a kid in a sport,
which I think is essential for kid actors. You guys
know this world, but like just like I do. But
like the second the parents start working for the kid
and not the other way around, danger zone. So I
was very grateful that I had a healthy environment.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Oh god, So for a long time, were you coming
back in from Arizona or was that like a short
stint or was there I mean, that's a lot, that's
a lot that's farther than coming from Orange County to La.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You guys will remember back in the day, there was
this thing called pilot season, which was ya. Yes, it
was a season that we would come in for. You know,
actors now watching, you have no idea what this is.
It's just in the history books for you.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Guys, yep.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
But it was a very big season that you would
come in where there would be tons of auditions. You'd
come in for like two or three months, and it
was the thing like you prepped all year for pilot
season and it was a huge deal. And so I
started coming in for pilot season and eventually got got
on my first show, a Fox show where I was
like the kid series regular and I was like twelve
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or thirteen, And that was the first big thing that
I got. And then that slowly turned. You know, the
second a kid actor gets a thing, Disney's like, we're
tracking him.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Right, Yeah? Wait, was this Method?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Then read this is the Pits?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And then Method and Red Okay one to the next
Yeah with the Rappers, Method Man and Red Men?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Which is I mean?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Was?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It must have been such a amazingly weird set to
be on all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I smelled smells. I'd never smelled in my life that point.
It was.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
You was like, all right, here's enough of this, We're
hopping over to the Disney Channel.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It was yeah, my yep.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
There was a couple like uh, you know, cup your
eyes moments. But I will say that those guys were
like the ultimate gentleman to me, and we're actually really cool.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
But yeah, it was. It was an environment that I
now know.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
And when what was your first audition that you had
at the channel? Do you remember which, which what role
you auditioned for? First?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I auditioned for a lot different Channel shows, but the
first one that I got was that so but and
I think that might have been an offer because they
saw me on they saw me on Method and Red
and and then then they got me on on that show.
I think that was an offer. But before that, I
auditioned for like everything on the twenty first floor. Also,
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young actors watching the twenty first floors Channel building.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
No longer talk about it so much.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
That's where everyone got their jobs. I mean, that's where
everyone booked their thing.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And I mean it was so weird going back in
that room now as a producer to cast guys, because
like the second I walked in there like PTSD.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I just got like.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Guts going up the like your your stomach starting to
hurt going up the elevator.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You're walking off going oh, I went stiff. Yeah, I
went stiff, and like, yeah, it was it was crazy.
It was crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I got to do the zombies breast junket and it
just even being in the elevator. I didn't even go
all the way up to the twenty first floor. I
think I went up to like seventeenth floor, and I
was like, yeah, I'm close enough.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I'm close enough.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Real thing, yes, and now, but you got to be
on the other side time around, and you got to
do the auditions and all of that for this time.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, we were.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
We were one of the last shows to cast in
that room before they shut it down.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, geez. That's really cool though.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Talk about a full circle moment where you know, yeah,
you get your your first booking there and now you're
sitting there and you're getting to help, you know, create
the new stars, the stars of the next generation.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yes, and for all the kids auditioning too, Like I
did the things that no one ever did for me
when I, you know, auditioned, Like there's this one kid
that came in and he froze up. And you know,
it's front of the network, It's in front of everyone,
and this is a ten year old, eleven year old kid.
You know, he froze He like literally couldn't talk. And
I just took him my side and I was like, hey, man,
let's go let's go outside. Let's go outside and hang
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for a minute. And I sat with him in front
of one of the offices and just talked to him
for like and I was like, Hey, what you're going
through is totally normal. I can't tell you how I
felt this before and how I've been struck with nerves
and I froze up before. And this is not going
to be a bad moment for you, buddy, I promise you.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And you're gonna feel good.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I'm not letting you leave until you feel good and
you feel like you've done the thing. Okay, this is
the dragon you're going to slay. And then afterwards you
brought his dad into the room. That dad got to
come into the room and we had a conversation like literally,
I was like flashing to my therapy going like, what
would I have wanted someone to say.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Me in this movement? And we did. We did the thing.
I think we prevented a wound.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So you get to do that stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
What's the I mean, obviously, you guys your set life
for the Original Wizards versus now what what do you
feel like your favorite transitional part is that you've had
you've gotten a chance to do on on the set.
I mean, is it options or opportunities to mentor like
what you were just saying that you clearly did for
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this little stranger kid, Like that's just so awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Like and I'm a dad now too, so Like I
think you guys grew up in the business you understand this, right,
Like when you're a kid actor, you just see a
lot and you see the good, the bad, and the ugly. Sure,
And I just always took notes of like one day
I'm going to if I ever get in a position
of power, I'm going to do things a certain way.
So the big thing for me was like, I'm going
to help create a culture here that I think is
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healthy for kids. And the biggest mistake I saw growing
up was like no one was you didn't you didn't
acknowledge the fact that it is a kid.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Like it was expected them to act like an adult.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Expect them to act like an adult, and that's just
not true. And I'm not saying don't be serious. I'm like,
don't do a good job and don't be excellent. But
you have to have an extra set of lenses to
just go, this is not an adult. This is a kid.
And this kid experiencing emotions and feelings with grown up
people all around them that they've never felt in their
entire life. And it's abnormal. And someone needs to pull
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that kid aside at some point and go it is abnormal,
Like this is a weird situation that you're in. This
is not normal, but we're gonna embrace that. We're gonna
have fun with it. Okay, you're kid, We're gonna try
to get you to enjoy that. So I really worked
hard to create an atmosphere that was like very acknowledged,
acknowledge the fact that these kids are kids. Treat them
like kids, don't treat them like little adults or like
this utilitarian approach to like people, like let's let's treat
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them like human beings and appropriate for their age.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
So we've been wonderful, really.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Hard on that because I had some bad experiences and like, yeah,
we all did do that again, Yeah exactly, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And so that's no, that's great to hear that that.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You know, there's one of the things that my fellow
castmates that I talk about all the time is exactly that,
like what we would change if we could, and it
was the fact that we were treated like adults and
we weren't. So uh yeah, no, that's that's amazing. You
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have one of the rare opportunities to be essentially kind
of on the same set as both a young actor
and then as an adult producer. One of the things
I'm so curious about is how different is a set
that now involves something like social media as opposed to
when we were coming up, when there wasn't that instant
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kind of either gratification or frankly somebody bashing you. What
I mean, what is the difference between being on a
set with no social media and a set with social media?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Man, I feel like we could talk the entire podcast
about this, because you talk about it a lot, right.
There was like an intimacy to being an actor before
social media. There was a an honesty. You didn't feel
like you're being watched, you know, so you could could
just kind of do your thing, and there was a
healthy separation between like what you do as a as
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a person and as an actor, and then and then
going home, there was like a really healthy separation. Now
everyone is following you everywhere and you don't have that here,
and it's just different. It's just different, you know, And
and I don't know what to make of it. I
really don't. I miss in a lot of ways being
able to just feel a little more free and a
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little less judged and a little less judged quickly, Like
you used to have like eight or nine months to
just chill before the thing would come out, and then
and then you can read a couple of reviews and
you don't get like ten thousand freaking things coming into
people's opinions. So you got to get I think it's
now more important than ever to have proper mental health
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and to like develop a separation between what you do
and what people think.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Like that.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
It's so much more important I think now than yeah,
than in the past.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Well, there's also I mean, one of the things that
I is so interesting that I wanted to talk a
little bit about is the fact that Nowadays, if something
is a hit, you know instantly it's a hit, or
if people hate it, you know instantly that they hate it.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So when when you did the.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Original Wizards, at what moment did you look around with
your fellow cast or say to yourself or realize, wow,
we've really got something on our hands here, and people.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Are like, yeah, it's a good question.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
It wasn't until like the the we were filming the
third season, Like the first one came out and it
did well enough to like go again, right, so shot
the second season and then we got the pick up.
We started filming as second season was coming out, and
that's when all of us started getting really recognized. And
that was also when Disney Channel was like in a
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different day and age. It was a totally different day
and age than than it is now. You know, everything's
on Plus the fandom was only on Disney and Nickelodeon
and one or two other plays. All kids only had
a couple channels to go to. That was where all
of their entertainment was. Now you got YouTube and then
you know, you have so many different ways to watch it.
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And I talked about that with my cast too, because
they're like, what is it going to be like the
videos we saw of you and Selena back in the
day where stadiums are going crazy over you and different
things like that. And I was like, guys, I just
I don't know. Back in the day, you had two
channels to watch Disney.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Every Kid in the World on repeat, on repeat, on repeat,
on repeat. If you didn't miss if you missed the
first twenty times of the day that they they premiered
that episode, don't worry, They're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Another swatch of fifteen. You're good, You're gonna catch it.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Un Like you literally only had like five shows and
any given time that you could watch the whole world
of kids, would you watch like those? And now it's
it's just so different. So I don't know, you know,
it's like, it's just it's just different. It's just it's
so different.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Was there a moment when I mean, the chemistry between
you and Selena was it? Was it a moment like
was it as early on as like your audition period,
or was it the pilot, Like at what point did
you or did you get it really chance to recognize
how special the chemistry between the two of you were
on that on that cast.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it was It was pretty immediate.
I I I was actually cast first because they had
a version of the show that was different. It was
like they were trying to find their new even Stevens.
So they had me lead a boy lead show, like
a more male skewing show, and Selena was like then
they said, oh, we found this girl out of Texas.
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We think she's going to be big. She's going to
be your twin sister, but she'll be number two on
the show. And we did a pilot for a totally
different show called The Amazing O'Malley's that didn't test very well.
Turns out you should have you should lead with girls,
a good move in hindsight, and and then it all changed,
and then and then Selena was number one.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I was right behind her. But in that dynamic I think.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Helped click, like a perfect dynamic for us because I
was always meant to be her older brother.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I was always older than her.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
We were never meant to be twins, and I always
acted like an older brother too. I gave her crap,
you know, and she she didn't have an older brother,
and she liked that I gave her crap. I never
to this day. You know, she knows I'm gonna be me.
So it's it's big good relationship because I think I'm
one of the few people in her life that that
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she just knows. She doesn't you know, there's nothing to
prove or there's no angles. You know, I'm not trying
to get anything out of her.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I love that. That's amazing. The kids are phenomenal. I mean,
holy cow, the the talent, the versatility that they have, like,
but they also do as well look like they have
the best chemistry, Like they look like they're having so
much fun together. Are you being able to see that?
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And I mean that's got to be so nostalgic for
you watching them as well.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It was so cool.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
And this was one of the first shows that we
actually got to do in person chemistry reads a couple
of two and a half or three years ago. Now,
like a lot of kids were coming in the audition
were saying, this is my first time doing an in
person read ever, because a lot of these kids acting. God,
a lot of these kids started acting in COVID. So
your kids come in and say, this is my first
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ever in person read.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Oh Man was like, unbelieve.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
The whole generation of actors came out of COVID right
of Kids, and well, that was so cool to like
not have to do a zoom chemistry to get them
in person, to mix and match in person, and they
just nailed it.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Like it.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's a big lesson for me as an actor, like
to get to sit behind the producer's chair and actually
be involved in those rooms and see the decision making
that goes on with Gary marsh right, who I'm sure
you all know that much. When you hear Gary, it's
like he sends a cold shiver down your spine and
again he makes the decisions right. It's good to finally
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be a partner of Gary's and be here like hiring kids.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It was so cool.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
It was It was so cool to see because it
took the pressure off of me as an actor, because
as an actor I always was like, if I don't
get it, it's my fault, Like I didn't do a
good enough job, I didn't win it over. I knew
I could have done that line a little better. I
knew I could have done this a little better. And
that is so far away from the truth. The truth
is you're either right for it or you're not, and
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that is both look and talent. Like it was never
the comments were rarely about acting. It was really just
about oh, that's it, like he's the guy. Yeah you know, yeah,
you just know, and it has it still has nothing
to do with like the exact way you perform the line,
because by the time you get to the chemistry read
you're all good enough.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, you're all talented, you all got to the thing,
you all got there, and it's just like, well, that's
the person.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
That literally was it like with all of us, it
was just there was no the cast we have now,
there was no other choice. It was just that's the person,
and it is very clear.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And those other kids that didn't get the part might
be the person in a different role where they're going
to get there, and that they're going to be the
person when they walk in.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
You just never know a million percent. It was like
it gave me a perspective of going into rooms now
just going I'm right for this or I'm not. Yeah,
I'm just gonna do my thing and I'm the guy
or I'm not. And yes, those kids absolutely will be
the right person for the right thing. It's just a
mixture of all the elements that make it make sense.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Right, Okay, So one of the things we have to
talk about while you're here. There's two more things we
really have to address. The first one is not controversial
at all. The second one we're going to get into
some stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
We're going on. I had a feeling it was going
to get controversial with you guys.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So the first.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
One we have to talk about is Dad Napped because
we we do d cooms here and so we reviewed
Dad Nap. We've also talked to George Newbern and we've
talked to and you're getting there too, but we have
knighted several people, so we've talked to Sir Jason Earls
as well.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh exactly. So we're just wondering what was that.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Because we've heard some just bonkers thing just about the
experience of shooting, to.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
The point where I said, so, what was Dad Nap like?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
And George was like, I don't know if I I
can even describe that film in any way, shape or form.
He goes, I literally am not sure I could describe it.
So curious, what was it like doing Dad NAPPT.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
So you know, to take it back and a step
here when you do a show, so you guys know this,
but for people watching, like when you do a Disney
Channel show, you have in your deal you're going to
do original movies, right, it doesn't mean you're going to
do them. It doesn't mean they'll exercise that option. But
the time came for me when it was like, hey,
we want you to do this this movie. And I
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had never really gone by myself somewhere before. I think
it was eighteen, you know, so it was like my
first time going to a place alone to like shoot.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
A thing all really yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yeah, And I got my own like rental car. And
I don't know how they gave me a rental car
eighteen but like you know, I don't, by the way,
I have no idea how that happened.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I have no idea how I got a rental car.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But you can't. Was it in Toronto Salt Lakes didy
You can get them.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Under twenty five You just the insurance they have to
pay as a ridiculu this amount of money to pay
to rent like an eighteen or nineteen year old rental car.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
And by the way, I get it because I was
not responsible, Like the second they gave me this car
and I realized it wasn't my car, and like I
could do whatever the heck I wanted. Like I pulled
very carefully out of the place, you know, bye bye.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Bye, and I just floored it.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I was like like front wheel drive and the front
tires were like.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Skidding out and like, oh my god. I was like,
I'm free. I'm on my own, like I'm a teenager,
I'm no parents here. It can turn the music up.
I was like, this is awesome, man.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
And then you're in Salt Lake City, right, like the
cleanest place in America. You like lick the doors and
like people are like, who is this crazy guy? And
like turning out, you know they're in bed at like
six forty five, like and yeah, it was it was
an experience. It was an experience. And then Emily Osmond
that was my first like on screen kiss, and I
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remember it was like so cold, my nose was running.
I was nervous, and I was like, yeah, wipe your
nose before your first on screen kids, and like oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Oh, and then we almost freaking died. We literally almost died.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Me and Emily, if you have Emily on the show,
asked tell her, ask her to tell you this experience okay.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
We it was like snowing, and her dad was there.
It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
And we went on a trip somewhere I don't remember where,
but it was a lot lot of snow and we're
driving far, so we drove like an hour somewhere, and
then we did drive like an hour back and as
we're coming back, the snow was so thick on the
ground that there were like two tire marks on the
freeway snow in between and then snow on the outside,
and you had to stay in the tire marks to
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be safe.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
And we're going like.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Forty miles an hour, fifty miles an hour, and we
start to feel it biting. So we start to feel
and the whole car is kind of kind of doing
this kind of thing right, and then we just go.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Oh no, oh no's.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I'm in the back seat, Emily is in the front,
her dad is driving, and I remember I put my
seatbelt behind me, which huge mistake in hindsight. As we're
spinning and I leaned forward and I became like a therapist.
I literally was like, you got this, miss draws man,
you got it. Stay calm, like steak calm, you got this.
Just breathe yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
You were producing the car accident. I mean literally, like
it was it was pure.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Instinct to do this, like pure instinct. Yeah, it was
like something took over me and I just like started
like calming.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Him, like I need to be calm right now, and
the soothness of my voice, my soothing voice will just
get you through this.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Oh and it was a freaking miracle. We we finished spinning,
we land in the middle section. There was a cliff
on the other side, and we land in the middle
section and it was that like awkward five seconds of
just like land and oh my gosh, all of us
like turn to mister Osmond's like me embling. And there
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was one other guy I think was a guy named
Jonathan celt It might have even been George.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
But we all were just like.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Way to go.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
We didn't die.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Wo Okay, we'll have to ask about that.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
I wouldn't drive the remainder amount of time, that is
until late that you would not catch me driving a
car at all after that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Sure, we just sat there for a while and not
like Emily and I laughed about that to this day.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It's like, yeah, okay, and now to get now, to
get controversial.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
We're going to do it after the death after after
the death defying.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
We're getting controversial here, We're going there the Disney Channel Games.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yes, Disney Channel Games. We did a recap of the games.
Here was the captain both the Jason's on.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
We had Jason Earls on and uh Sir Jason Dolly
on because they thought each one thought the other had
won the the uh uh sciences competition and there was
a little bit of beef happening, so we had to
bring it back to the show. What was being team
Captain like? And what was your experience at the Disney
Channel Games.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I mean this was like Disney Channel gone wild. Like
if you bring all of these Disney Channel crazy people
all into one environment, there's no social media, We're all
finally getting to hang out together, and we just had
a freaking blast. So we just went wild like we
were competing. We you know, we were taking it serious.
We're like, I'm gonna kick kick your like we're taking
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it serious, and like hanging out at night, everyone's in
the jacuzzi and just like it was just it was
so fun. We could not have had as much fun
if there was social media one percent. Yeah, I remember
I was sitting on my like we're at my hotel
room is in Florida. I'm sitting on the balcony and
Miley's two floors above me with the phone on speaker,
just just like having a full on conversation for the
(25:07):
entire I was like trying to like hit her. Like Miley,
the entire place is like knowing what they're talking about
right now.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
All of the Animal Kingdom Hotel, can hear you?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, the drafts are like all in it.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well we are.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
We are attempting by literally just talking about it and
not doing anything else but attempting to get the Disney
Channel games to be reinstated with all the original players.
So we want to bring everybody back and have one
more go at the Disney Channel games.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Dude, you know what you Okay, I'm in And let
me just add to the equation. You need to get
like mister Beast involved, right and have him crap like this.
It's like mister Beat's Channel games and it's like because
his stuff that he does is crazy, Like have him
take the Disney Channel games to like a whole other level, yah,
and have like the og people there and then new
kids there and then mister Beast the whole thing and
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it's like game.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
We'll do We'll find a way to do it for
charity again, so it'll be it's a but that's that's
the plan.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So we've got to do that. Okay, all right, done, Well,
we we know we're coming to the end of this.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So there's just beyond Waverley Places out right now right,
people can watch it on Disney Plus.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Disney Plus check it out. We do some things in
the show that are like jaw dropping. Selena and Janie
really bring some really powerful emotional moments where I'm like,
this is emmy stuff right here.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Like they they watch it, they're so good. And uh.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
We brought some drama in the show in addition to
the heart and comedy that you don't usually do in sitcoms,
because we're like, it's a twenty twenty five sitcom, let's
just go there, let's blur the lines. This is it's
more serialized, like we we we're trying things, we're trying things.
It's got a big ending. So I'm excited for people
to people to check it out at any.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Guests appearances that we can have a little noice knowledge
about anyone to look forward to that's going to pop
up in the middle of the season.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
So Freya Skuy, who's one of the big big Disney
stars right now, comes on the show.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Is great.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
And then we have Bill Kott, who was one of
the original actors from the show. He comes back, and
there's a couple other surprises. Well, of course Selena is
there for the big finale, so we're we're excited.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh, that's gonna be great. We can't wait.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Well, congratulations, it's awesome everything you've done. Also, as an
old school sitcom fan, seeing that people are still doing
real television is so amazing. So thank you so much
because we need it. We need a ton more of it.
So and for our final question, which we like to
ask everybody.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
M Oh, this is a good one. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
What was your favorite d com of all time?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Brink?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That's everybody's damp favorite one, but it's always a toss
up that which was one of my favorite.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Johnny Johnnysuonami love Johnny Tsunami, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
And then there's different dimensions of the Brink is like
the one that sticks out.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I don't know, does a beloved thing, Like, oh yeah,
I was skateboarding at the time and rollerblading and like
that was just like center of the bulls eye for me.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Like yes, so cool.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
So did you prefer brink or airborne brink? Okay, wow,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Just the cast everyone was so freaking cool.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
I still go back and like watch clips and I'm like, yeah,
I was right, like that.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
They've all been on the show too, and they are
love their exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Motocross, like I like motocross. I liked uh uh was
the one when Raven's a little girl?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Uh Zita Slapida?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That one I thought was fun.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
I mean there's so many, Yeah, there are so many.
We've watched so many of them. There's majority of them hits.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
So well, well, we'll let you go and do all
your other stuff, but we were holding you to once
again coaching one of the teams for the New Beast
Disney Channel games in.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Like I saved you both for your time. Really appreciate
this is than This is amazing, very.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Nice meeting you, Hi, man, that was cool. The idea
that and I got to I've gotten to witness this
kind of firsthand because this happened with boy Meets World
and then Girl Meets World where you get to see
kind of two sets, and Danielle and Official and Ben
Savage came back as producers on Girl Meets World. And
(29:24):
I have my own issues with girmyt World, and I
wasn't really involved, thankfully, but to see and hear stories
about like, for instance, him sitting in the room to
audition somebody and if kid freezes up and he takes
him outside and talks to him and turns exactly what
he said what could have been a horrible wound that
you're going to remember for the rest of your life,
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especially as an actor.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Into something where it's like a good learning lesson but
you're okay with it. That's yeah, I mean amazing to
hear it.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
It makes me go, oh, now, I want to go
visit the set and watch him in action with this
like young set of Disney Channel stars, knowing that he
is probably just passing the torch, not just like within characters,
but truly like helping them navigate what is now such
a scary world on set, you know, it's so different,
(30:12):
especially him saying how important you know mental health is now?
And I mean you can just like you just that
small thing. I mean, he's always been such a great guy,
but it seems like he's just turned into such an
amazing mentor for.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
These yeah, and an advocate for what being a child
actor should be as opposed to what it was, which
actually he said it right. You know it's not I've
been in this business for forty years. I started when
I was ten years old. I had some bad experiences.
It was not an awful experience all the way around.
You have great things that happen right, very healthy things
that happened to you. But if you can then couch
(30:46):
that with being more active when it comes to making
it a better environment to be in, and you have
mentors like that, it just it shows you what the
new generation will be.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Because he's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I mean, I would leave the set of Boy Me's
World and I go home to my apartment and that
was it. I wasn't reading about boy Meets World. I
wasn't reading about myself personally. You could shut it off totally,
and you can't do that anymore. It's like they say
that when you when you used to be bullied in school,
when you went home, that was a safe place because
the book you weren't with your bullying. The bullying is
(31:17):
that's not the case anymore now it's all digital and virtual.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, it doesn't stop. And fame is the same way now,
celebrity and fame don't go away. You are famous twenty
four to seven now.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
And so him being able to recognize that and being
able to mentor the new kids coming up, like, all right,
I was there first.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I know what it's like.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I know you're big in social media, but here's how
we got to figure it out. I mean, that is
just going to make for a much healthier version of
a child actor.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Absolutely, and treating the kid like allowing the kids to
be kids like that is such a huge thing. And
like you said, he's not trying to take the limelight
off of you know, this is a job. This is
you know, you need to you need to practice, you
need to be prepared, like the professionalism of that. Some
of those aspects are obviously needing to be there. However,
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you are going to react and handle things very different
than us adults because you're still learning about a lot
of things. Yeah, you know, it's it's different for kids.
And so I think that is one of the things
that I would think was for me the only part
sometimes of like anything kind of going on set and
(32:27):
you just like learning to just be completely quiet, you know,
and not react to it because you didn't want to
laugh or you didn't want to do something that would
like make you look like, oh, she's too young and
too underprofessional to handle this. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
It was also I mean there was there were times
where I was on sets when I was twelve or thirteen,
where I'd be smoking cigarettes and we'd finish working for
the day and one of the producers would offer.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Me a beer. I was twelve, Wow, So did I
have it? No, I didn't take it. I just I
didn't start drinking till I was like twenty five.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
But I'd like to think stuff like that doesn't happen
anymore where you know, a kid at twelve years old
goes to try to light a cigarette and everyone's going
to be like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Where are your parents?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Like that?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
It wasn't like that back in the day.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
My parents when they turn their back, I'd smoke a
cigarette and I'd be sitting there with the you know,
the team stirs that would be like, hey man, can
I blump one?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I mean, that was normal.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So the new hopefully the new normal is more producers
like him, and it's it is navigating a much healthier
lifestyle for a child actor and to hear stuff like
that and to know they're still making the kind of
product that they are over at the Yes, and.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
The show is huge and people.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I mean, it's easy for someone like David Henry or
Selena Gomez to be like, I don't need Wizards of
Waverley Place in my life anymore. I'm doing ten thousand
other things. I'm a huge star. But it shows how
important it was in their lives and how important it
is on the Channel that they both still wanted to
be involved. It's like, no, we want to be doing these.
I think Selena Gomez needs to go on beyond Wizards
(33:54):
of Waverley Place or David Henry does, but they.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Want to yes, because she it seems like she's just
so I mean, I've met her a handful of times,
but it just seems as she's gotten older, she's gotten
more and more grounded versus getting lifted up into the skies.
She's gotten grounded, and she is thankful and appreciative of
what the Channel gave her. She didn't try to fight
(34:18):
it and try to really get shit. I'm not a
kid anymore. She embraced it, and I think that's one
of the most amazing things about her is she truly
embraces everything the Channel gave to her. And that is huge,
because you're right, not everyone does that, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
So yeah, no, very very cool. Well, everybody, don't forget.
Wizards Beyond Waverley Place is out now.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
It's so good, so all the nostalgia of the original one.
The new cast is so talented and it's a great watch.
Like I can't wait until it is on the Channel
because I or on Disney Plus, because I literally that's
a show I one hundred percent want my kid watch.
It's funny, it's got magic, it's just it's so good.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Well perfect sounds like perfect Disney Channel show. And I'm
still calling it the Disney Channel.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I know it's Disney Plus and I know it's a
whole different thing, but it's still the Channel. So thank
you everybody for joining us, and thank you David for
taking the time, because we know you're in the middle
of doing all the press right now and you're answering
the same nine questions over and over again.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
We've all been there, so we appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Doubt he was by Dad napped or Disney Channel game
probably not a very different for him.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, those are probably not, so that's good. And by
the way, he's on it's on the.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Record here that he said he will absolutely come back
and coach one of the teams when we bring back
the Disney Channel games. I love his idea of getting
mister Beast involved. But yes, we are going to find
a way to get Disney to bring back the Disney
Channel games, and then Sabrina and I are going to
be the two like the commentators sitting there is we're
doing all that kind of stuff. So thank you everybody
(35:53):
for joining us, and don't forget to join us next
time over on our other feed where we are going
to be watching that little film from uh what was
her name again, zen zen Zendia zappt, So go check
that out next time.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
So you're all cut up and then homework will be done.
Thanks everybody, we'll see you next time.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Bye.
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Will Friedle
Sabrina Bryan
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