Nash Grier on Making Movies and Finding His Personal Style

Nash Grier on Making Movies and Finding His Personal Style
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YH hangs out with Internet sensation Nash Grier just before the MTV VMAs kicks off to get the scoop on his evolving personal style, the Jack and Jack video he directed, and what he expects from Miley Cyrus's hosting gig! He talks about his desire to get behind the camera more and put out more "traditional" content, plus he gives us a little freestyle SnapRap!
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So, I'm here on the red carpet with, or I don't know, the colorful carpet, I guess, with Nash Grier. Hey. What's up, dude? How you doing? Um, first of all, your look. Everyone wants to know, do you want your old look back? Do you like this new look? You got, I mean, the hair is like.
I don't know, I keep trying to change my look and just make it, because I don't know, like when I grew up in North Carolina on the other side of the country in the south, everyone dressed the same, like all guys dressed this way, all girls dressed this way.
How do you dress there? Like, give it, give it the big up.
I went to private school, so we had uniforms, and then out of private school, we all just wore like whatever we wore to practice. And like everyone looked the same. But like coming out to LA and seeing all this different culture and seeing like, I've been here for two years now, and like, I really don't think I have a style yet. I'm just kind of like.
First of all, can we just picture Nash in a uniform right now, because that, we need, we need to get you a, do a picture of that. We need to like get an old school.
I have, I have pictures of me in like a tux at the White House and then I'm wearing a dolphin shirt today. So like I want to switch it up a lot. So yeah.
So you just did a music video, right? You directed it with my boys, Jack and Jack were in it, Wesley Stromberg. He's the man. Dude, explain how that all went down.
So, I had this idea, well, it wasn't really an idea. I just have like a passion for making content, making videos, and I've always been in front of the camera, but I'm like, after going to like whatever, 400 meetings out here in the past year, I realized that I don't only want to be behind the camera. I want to be a writer, I want to be a director, I want to produce. I want to like make my visions come to life. So, I'm going to start getting behind the camera a lot more. But just for this specific project, I found an artist, I loved the song, and he asked me, he's like, yo, do you want to direct this? And I said, hell yeah. And we just started, I hit up my friends, I wanted them to be in it, and we storyboarded the plot, and it turned out amazing. And I think it's about to hit like a million views or something. So.
Is that surprising though? I mean, you had a million views in like an hour, not even.
I don't know, for me it's like. It's insane. Yeah, it's still a million people though, which is insane. Like, looking at that number and then saying, oh, that's a person behind that account or like, I don't know, it's crazy to me.
Well, seeing you in a whole different role, because you're like comedy Vine guy, and all of a sudden now you're like directing a music video. That's insane. What was like one of the funniest things that happened on set with any of those There are some. There's got to be some stories, right?
Yeah, we were on set all day for that music video. So everyone was getting annoyed because of like how you do one shot 20 different times just to get it right. But uh funniest thing, we were all playing those instruments all day, and I was playing the trumpet, I believe, all day. And everyone was just laughing their ass off at like how funny everybody was like playing their different instruments, because none of us actually played those instruments in real life. We just had to like learn what those were for the day or whatever. It was crazy. So that was hilarious. But yeah.
So okay, VMAs, is this your first time here, actually?
I think I was here last year.
Okay. So this year obviously is insane, right? We got Miley Cyrus hosting. What is the, do you think what's like the one thing you think she might do? I don't know. It's hard to it's hard to predict, right?
She's unpredictable and she's amazing. She's one of the funniest people I know. I've watched her since I was a kid and I get to see her on stage today, which is amazing. She's just awesome. I I just want everyone to embrace her for who she is because a lot of people like hate on her and stuff, but everything that she stands for is amazing. So, yeah.
Someone here you're like super fanboying over, excited to see?
Uh, not really, not that I've seen. If if my favorite comes up, maybe I'll freak out.
That's impressive, Nash. Not at all.
I'm impressed by everyone. It's just. I keep my cool around people that I admire and stuff. So yeah.
You ever had like a fanboy moment, because there's so many, what's like the one thing that you've freaked out over? Or somebody.
Uh, I've had one when I was at Mark Wahlberg's house watching the premiere of the entourage. And I watched the movie. That's ridiculous. No, it was crazy. Yeah. I watched the movie and like I'm with, I'm in this room with everyone's there and we're just watching this crazy film. And then like after everyone starts leaving, Mark like comes up to me and we have this conversation for like five to 10 minutes and literally it's hard for me to keep my cool, but like I learned so much in those five to 10 minutes and that was like one of the best times for me. I think that's my most fanboy moment if I had one. So yeah.
So if you could sit next to anyone at the VMAs, who would it be? What would you talk about?
Christopher Nolan. But I don't know if he's here or not, and he's a writer. Uh, and I talk about movies.
That's pretty cool. All right. You're like in like behind the camera mode right now.
yeah, he's, I've been writing. For the past like year it's been hard for me to like put my phone down and make less content and like get off the internet and just write. And I finished writing a documentary. I'm working on writing my first film that I'm taking to legendary. And then uh, my first movie comes out in a month. So I'm kind of trying to make that transition to traditional media and get behind the camera as quick as possible.
It's crazy that like you and all your friends are all like making movies now. Like no big deal, no big deal at all. Insane.
Yeah, and I and the best thing is that we get our creative input and that's what makes it real. And that's honestly why like I'm here is because like creativity and like bigger people allowing me and allowing my friends to get our creative minds out there and and just show younger people and show teens and show the world basically like what what is what we're doing and what's creative and what's cultural, whatever it is. So, it's been awesome and thank you to everyone who makes it possible.
Okay, and lastly, we saw you at the Jaskins movie premiere. You did a hilarious Snapchat with your brother. So we're going to have to recreate that for a second. We got to do, what we got to do is, well, pull, yeah, we'll pretend that he's here. We'll pretend he's here. But you got to do a snap rap. So you're going to be like, hey, I'm Nash at the VMAs with Young Hollywood. You freestyle, freestyle away. All right, ready?
Yo, I stole Young Hollywood Snapchat, wearing a nice fat hat. No, a snapback. And I'm rhyming at the VMA. Young boy getting
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Nash Grier
Interview subject, discusses his career and experiences
- Miley Cyrus
VMA host, Nash discusses her hosting gig
- Jack and Jack
Artists whose music video Nash directed
- Wesley Stromberg
Mentioned in relation to the music video Nash directed
- Mark Wahlberg
Nash shares a 'fanboy' moment meeting him
- Christopher Nolan
Director Nash would like to sit next to at the VMAs
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