Is Chloe Lukasiak’s Next Level Movie the New High School Musical?

What up, Young Hollywood? We are here with Lauren Orlando.

Yes.

So we are crashing the set of your movie. Yes. Next Level. How dope. Like you're shooting a movie for God's sake.

It's been so fun. This is my first ever movie, so it's all very new to me.

Get it, girl. Give me some sparkle. Don't leave me hanging. I love it.

It's all very new to me, but I've had such a fun time.

That's what's up.

Definitely something I want to do again.

Oh, I'm sure. It's a freaking like musical-esque type of movie.

Definitely. It's a very fun film. It's very like, it was described as sort of like High School Musical meets Fame. Which I like, you know, I grew up as a dancer, so I love that. And now that I'm acting, I was like, I must be a part of this. So it's, it's been really, really great. And the entire cast is great. So it's been really wonderful. And our amazing director Alyssa, she's been fantastic. So I really can't complain. I play a girl named Cindy. And she is a little nasty, a little mean.

Oh.

Yeah, she's not a nice girl for sure. And it's funny because I play a mean girl a lot. I play on a couple other shows.

Andie Mac. I love you in Andie Mac.

My character's very like, he's kind of like really cool. He's cool. He's like really cool, you know. He's kind of like the super like all-out guy, I guess. But when he comes down to like, he likes a girl, he's very like shy and like

So yeah. My character is Lucy Rizzo. And she's one of Cindy's stallings' little minions. She's, you know that clique, there's always that like mean girl clique and

Well, especially in a lot of these like movies. My character, her name is Jasmine, and she's a dancer and a singer. Um, she's sort of like a mentor to the other girls because she used to be, um, at the at the Academy, but she graduated. Um, she won and everything. So she's sort of like touring, and she's very successful. And a lot of the girls, I think, sort of, you know, look up to her as a role model.

My character's name is Josie Parker. She won the Top Rookie Award. And she's the youngest one at the camp. And she like is new, and she never really been to this Performing Arts camp.

So I want to know about the audition process. Like, how did you even get the role? Fill me in.

Well, I'm from Toronto, Canada. So

Hey, where's my poutine?

Poutine is everything. It is, it is everything. I originally self-taped for the movie, and then I had a FaceTime call with the director. It kind of evolved to this and here we are.

That's what's up.

I auditioned for a few roles. I auditioned for Kelly, and then Lucy.

Really?

And then Cindy. Yeah. So I I the moment I read the script, I was like, I love this. I want to be on it no matter who I am because I just love the the message it portrays, and just the whole deal. I loved it. And so, yeah, it was fun. I went in to see two times. And again, once I got to Cindy, I was like, oh no, like another mean girl. But I read into her and I was like, okay, this is cool.

So there's choreography. There's a lot of choreography in the movie. Yes. How long did it take you to kind of catch on to the choreography?

I had I had three rehearsals, but yeah, I I've been dancing my whole life. I got the choreography pretty fast. It's a lot of fun because we're all singing and dancing, you know, it's kind of the whole the whole thing, the performing arts school. And I think that's one of the most interesting parts of the movie, like people are going to love the singing and dancing. Like, it makes it like It makes it kind of High School Musical. Yeah, like it has that full vibe and it's it's going to be fun. The choreography is amazing.

Is this the first time you've ever like sang and danced in a movie?

It is not.

It isn't? Okay, that's fair. What's like your favorite style of dance?

When I was younger, I used to love break dancing. But probably like hip-hop.

Now, one word to describe Next Level.

It's action-packed two words.

Listen, I'm no English major, but we will take it as one word. All right.

Inspiring.

Fantastic. One word.

Mhm.

I would say it's fabulous.

Fabulous. I love it.

I was going to say entertaining, just because the entire thing, like the whole like the the plot twists and like the singing and dancing and performing, it's all very entertaining, but it's also inspiring. It's also captivating, motivating. I know there's so many words.

She's like, she's like, I'm gonna do what I want. I'm gonna give you five words. That's right. Chloe. Chloe, thank you so much. You are such a sweetheart. Congratulations on everything.

Oh, you're so sweet. Keep it coming. Thank you.