Selena Gomez & Co-Stars Take a Risk With 'Spring Breakers'

Selena Gomez & Co-Stars Take a Risk With 'Spring Breakers'
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Selena Gomez, along with her (fully-clothed) castmates Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine, sit down with us in Austin to discuss their raucous movie 'Spring Breakers', which is making a splash all over SXSW and beyond! The girls talk awkward moments on set, spending the majority of the shoot in teeny bikinis, and their transition to more "adult" roles. Also, they reveal where/what their ideal real-life Spring Break would be! Hosted by Tracy Behr (@tracybehr).
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Hey guys, it's Tracy with Young Hollywood. We are at the Four Seasons Austin at South by Southwest. I just chatted with Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Corin about their new movie Spring Breakers. Check it out. So, Spring Breakers, you guys all play roles that are just completely different from what you're used to in the past. How do you actually prepare all your fans for what they're about to see in this movie?
It's not necessarily preparing. Uh, it's more of a warning. But I I think it's actually been I think it's been great. I think the fans who are old enough to see it, the ones that we've seen it in the screenings with have really responded well and they've been a little shocked, but I think, um, I don't know, I think they'll enjoy it.
So, have you guys ever been to South by Southwest before? Is this your first? I know you're from Texas and I'm from Texas. We're both from Dallas. I know my mom actually used to help run the festival. She was like a like a little PA.
Yeah, so but no, I've never been here. So, I know I'm I'm kind of like making my Texans proud.
And you guys really all, you know, you were like this good girl Disney image and now you're like playing the ultimate bad girls, but you really are pushing yourself and you're all, you know, pushing the envelope. Was there anything really challenging about it going from one extreme to the other?
It's never really a a easy transition, I guess. You know, there's not really a right answer or a wrong answer, but I think every day was so much fun. This project and this script and Harmony just all of it is kind of a given. It's an actor's dream in a way.
And I heard that none of you have been on actual spring break before. So, this is really your first time sort of like experiencing what that would be like. That's so crazy.
It was crazy. We experienced the craziest one we could.
Yeah. And we were surrounded by real spring breakers while filming. So, that made it that much better. It's so much more real. None of us have any desire to go on spring break after doing this movie just because you already we did everything you could have done, you know. Yeah.
But if you could go, what would be like your ultimate destination that you'd want to go to?
I'd go to Fiji and lay on the beach with two friends.
Let's do that now.
Right? Right? Just hop on a boat.
Yeah, I would absolutely want to go somewhere tropical. Um, I would like to do a road trip. I want to do a road trip with my friends.
Oh, yeah, that'd be cool.
What about you?
Oh, I don't know. I would like to just stay home. That's a spring break for me. That's chill. Chill it up.
So, I know you guys both had some crazy scenes. You were doing a threesome with Vanessa Hudgens and James Franco. And I heard that you ate a lot of chips before that. Is that true?
Yeah. No, I No. Okay, so what happened was he asked me how I felt before filming the scene and I the only thing I remember is that it was raining and there was a thunderstorm. And Vanessa and I went to the grocery store and we just got a ton of food. And it wasn't like, oh, I need chips for my scene. It was just like, what? There's nothing else to do, so I might as well eat. And we didn't film till like 12:00 or 1:00 in the morning. So, we were just in me and Vanessa were literally in the trailer eating chips all night.
But then, okay, so you guys were wearing bikinis pretty much the entire time. So, how did you sort of like eat fresh?
We were told that these are college girls. These girls aren't on like a South Beach diet and doing Pilates. They don't give a butt about that stuff. No. Yeah. So, I think we just wanted to, and Harmony was the one that was like, eat more. So, he wanted us to be It wasn't really that kind of.
That's cool though, because, you know, you're really just being
I know. We were in Paris and, um, somebody made a comment on the poster. They were like, "You guys are great." I'm like, that's Photoshop. Oh, like that's so Photoshop. That's fixed up.
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- Selena Gomez
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- Ashley Benson
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- Rachel Korine
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- Tracy Behr
Host of the interview
- James Franco
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- Harmony Korine
Director of 'Spring Breakers'
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