Getting to Know the ‘Hot Summer Nights’ Cast

Getting to Know the ‘Hot Summer Nights’ Cast
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Young Hollywood sits down with the cast of "Hot Summer Nights" at SXSW to discuss their new film and personal lives. The actors share their favorite foods, celebrity crushes, and insights into the movie's themes and production. They also touch on their experiences working together and the music they listened to while filming.
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Kicking back with Maia Mitchell, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe, and Timothée Chalamet at SXSW
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Hot summer night cast in the house. What up, homies? What's up? What's up? What's up? Hey. Hot summer night. Yeah! Young Hollywood, we always have to like get a little bit deeper and personal. So I gotta know, where is your favorite spot to eat? Where is it?
Um, like a double double and then animal style fries.
Alex, what about you bro?
A nice quiet on the beach, fish and chips, well battered. Well battered fish and chips. Well battered. Well battered.
Um, I was just in Morocco and I think I had the best meal of my life there. So Morocco food is really like.
Yeah. Any sort of bagel with cream cheese. New York, New York. Yes.
I see you all the way down there. What up, dude? How are you?
I'm awesome.
Uh, one funny fact about you is you are an individualized study at NYU. What does that mean? What? Oh, wow. That is not the next thing I thought was going to be asked.
Um, let me guess, you got an A?
Uh, yes, yes. So, I was like browsing Mica's Instagram and she's got like Scarface, Conor McGregor. Like you like to roll with the OGs, huh?
Yes. Definitely. McGregor is
Yeah. Do you think he's gonna beat Floyd Mayweather?
Yes. Looking forward to that.
And what are the rules gonna be? Can McGregor like take him to the floor?
He can not to the floor. It's just it's boxing rules.
Wow. Alex, is it true that you don't like to have actor friends? What was that about? Cause I see I see three people that you seem pretty friendly with right here.
I just feel like as actors we're like supposed to represent people who are like regular people and not actors and I feel like if you hang around actors too, too much and that's the only people you hang around with, you kinda only know how to represent other actors, you know? So, I like to keep my friends I grew up with and keep it real, you know?
So, Maya over here, you come from this super small like town, now you're this superstar. Like, how did that jump happen?
I don't I don't think I'm a superstar, but um
Yes, you are.
Thank you, Mica. I think you are.
Um, I don't know, I just got really lucky um and here I am. So, I don't know. It's just, I think if you work hard and if you're lucky, like but most of it was luck.
So, Timothy. You go by Timothy or Tim mainly? Timothée Chalamet: Hey, whatever works.
We call him Timo. We call him Timo.
So, Timo, your family's been in the business for quite some time, right? Did you feel like pressure to jump into the business or did you feel like, you know, you knew the harsh reality of the business and you wanted to do something else? Cause right now you're juggling school with acting. How did that how's this all work? Timothée Chalamet: It came organically, like you said, you know, my grandfather was a screenwriter or my uncle, my aunt um, are directors and writers. But uh you know, I wasn't all that crazy about it. And yeah, I guess that's how it was more it was more organic. Yeah.
Okay, so we're definitely gonna ask celebrity crush. Timothy, who is it? Timothée Chalamet: Uh, Julie Andrews.
Man, you didn't even take a second. Julie Andrews? Impressive.
Mick Jagger.
Mick Jagger, Mica. Alex, who is it?
Brie Larson. That's a good one.
Okay. Uh, Jeff Goldblum. Oh, man. Yes. Yes to Jeff. I get that. Have you ever been to his acting class?
No. I can't even imagine what that's like. Oh, God. No.
We should go, Maya, let's go.
No, no, I'm good. I'm already flushing.
So this movie had like a weed theme to it. It's like kinda the big thing. How do you think that's gonna be received? Do you think people are gonna feel like offended by it or do you think it's acceptable now? Timothée Chalamet: Well, I know in the time period, I mean, that's one of the central themes to the movie cause it takes place in 1992 in Cape Cod. So, that was a felony drug offense and I think that's ultimately the the the big catalyst in the movie is that, you know, that wasn't something that was uh legal in the time period. So you have this weird legal affliction that's conflicting Daniel all the while, he has these relationships that are falling apart whether it's with best friends or, you know, intimate people in his life. So, certainly the legalization of weed or rather the lack of it in um in 1992 and Cape Cod, especially on the East Coast.
Seems like you guys all came kinda became pretty close shooting this film, huh?
Yeah, we all lived together in a house in Atlanta. Um, me and Timo, I played football quite a lot. Yeah, it was cool. It was like yeah, it was I think it shows on screen as I think the chemistry that we all kind of built together.
All right, what kind of music are you guys listening to? What's like what's your track right now?
We were in uh we were in Atlanta shooting this. So we were listening to a bunch of trap music. It was like the home the home of trap music. So, uh who are we listening to? We're listening to Fetty Wap.
Fetty Wap.
Who else a little bit of uh a little bit of Future and Migos.
Migos.
Uh, so you might feel that in this movie as well. You might feel a little bit of uh
Do you feel that in this movie? You really do. The soundtrack is
The soundtrack is
The soundtrack is pure trap. Hardcore trap. Timothée Chalamet: Yeah. No, it's not, by the way. The opposite of that. It's We actually have some Bowie in the soundtrack. It's amazing to this. Yeah.
Soundtrack's more of an OG situation. We would listen to it while we were.
Lance Armstrong. God. Coming in.
Not about the bike. But yeah, the soundtrack's amazing to this movie. Um, like definitely a character of its own. Yeah, we would listen to like a lot of the songs that ended up uh in the movie like while we were shooting. Yeah. Like on set. So.
I think it's gonna be a really fun movie, huh?
Thank you. Yes, it will be. Yes.
All right, Scream Queens. That's all the time we got. Woohoo. Let's do it. All right, Young Hollywood. Thank you so much and thank you, you guys.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Maia Mitchell
Cast member of 'Hot Summer Nights'
- Maika Monroe
Cast member of 'Hot Summer Nights'
- Alex Roe
Cast member of 'Hot Summer Nights'
- Timothée Chalamet
Cast member of 'Hot Summer Nights'
- Conor McGregor
Mentioned by Maika Monroe as someone she follows
- Floyd Mayweather
Discussed in relation to a fight with Conor McGregor
- Julie Andrews
Timothée Chalamet's celebrity crush
- Mick Jagger
Maika Monroe's celebrity crush
- Brie Larson
Alex Roe's celebrity crush
- Jeff Goldblum
Maia Mitchell's celebrity crush
- Fetty Wap
Musician listened to by the cast
- Future
Musician listened to by the cast
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