"Selfie" Set Tour with Karen Gillan, John Cho, & Da'Vine Joy Randolph

"Selfie" Set Tour with Karen Gillan, John Cho, & Da'Vine Joy Randolph
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YH pays a visit to the set of ABC comedy "Selfie", which is a 21st century take on George Bernard Shaw's classic 'Pygmalion' story! We sit down with stars Karen Gillan and John Cho to find out a little bit more about the series and their characters, and co-star Da'Vine Joy Randolph takes us on a tour of the swanky marketing company that Cho's character works for! The actors also reveal whether or not they are avid selfie-takers in real-life!
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I'm joined by the lovely, Karen Gillan.
I didn't try it.
You, come on. Give it to me in a Scottish accent. Karen Gillan.
Pretty good.
Try again.
Karen Gillan.
Karen Gillan. That was amazing.
Is that good?
I'm proud of you. Doesn't you don't It doesn't sound as attractive as when I say it. When you speak in a Scottish accent it's lovely. When I speak I feel like a giant person.
Yeah, giant. Giant. Giant person.
I'm joined by John Cho. How are you sir?
Hey, good.
Looking as handsome and dapper as ever.
Oh, well thank you very much.
Always, always. Thank you. I was fishing for that compliment. This is going very well. This is going very well. And on notes of looking good and being confident in that man. A selfie. Yes. We're on the set of Selfie. Um but the show's about Eliza. She's a she's a she's a very famous on social media. Like a lot of people are nowadays. You're right, right, right. Um But doesn't really know how to deal with regular life. Right, right. And she comes to you for help.
That's right. So she comes to me for help to make her a more, I think in my eyes, respectable person. Someone who's engaging in the real world versus the online world. And the line is fuzzy for her. As it is for a lot of people. Right. And she's more interested in getting likes on Facebook than she is in engaging with people.
Henry says maintaining eye contact makes people think you're listening to them. Even if what you're really thinking about is whether or not Jay and Yan have a pri. What are your thoughts on that?
Of course they have a pri. There's a billion dollars on the elevator.
I see. Eliza has trouble interacting with people in real life but she gets a lot of attention online. Right. Um so that's why she goes to Henry to ask him to sort of teach her how to communicate with people better. What's the best characteristics of Sha that you love?
I love that she is that go-to girl. That people can talk to about anything. She'll give you her her opinion. Okay. But she doesn't judge you. I mean, kind of, but.
She'll tell me She'll give you a side eye. Okay. But
Give me the side eye. Right.
Yeah, that's that's the side eye. That's I don't want to get that. That's actually my go-to face. I don't want to get that. Okay. Thankfully, I haven't seen that yet. Can you take me on a tour? Can we go on a tour? Let's. We're going to go on a tour of the set of Selfie. Let's do it. What's this first
Ta-da! This is the break room. This is this is a good room. It's a real real life vending machine. These items here are actually treats that are only in the North East. These are called crimpets. So
Sell me on it. Sell me on the crimpet.
It's basically like a vanilla cake that has this butterscotch icing on top. Okay. And it comes in three and they're like little crinkly as a fun shape. Really really good. I used to have these when I was.
And how does it make you feel?
Amazing. Little elephant biscuits on the wall.
Oh, yeah, those are gummy bears.
Oh, they're gummy bears. Because this is Kindercare Pharmaceuticals. And so
It's for children.
Yeah. It's for we brand children. That says children.
Yeah. I looked at that and I was like, how friendly it brought me back to my youth. Yeah. It's like Baabar. Baabar. Do you remember Baabar? I love Baabar.
So this is called the bullpen. Okay. And so these are all the sales representatives cubicles.
Whose cubicle do you think? Sounds very personal. Sounds like a personal question.
I would guess it is Eliza's. Ding ding ding. It's fun 'cause we all look at magazines together. And we're like, pull out stuff that we like. She'll have a little snack. Sometimes she'll have a Luna Bar in here. No, not this time.
Luna bars. They're they're they're that's like a female protein bar, isn't it? Is that right?
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know if that's a good thing to have or not. I don't know. Bit shiny. But like will you grow boobs or something if you ate a lot of them?
You know what, true story that did cross my mind.
If you could if you could take a selfie with anyone in the world. And they can be dead or alive. Obviously alive they're going to look better in the picture. Who would it be?
You know what? Here, how about Jesus? Because
This is a good one. It's a good one. This is a strong one.
Because I think there's a lot of controversy about what he looks like. We can clear that up with a photograph.
It's only if your question come true. Yeah. We could have just cleared up religious views in the world. Oh. You can't make it. No, it was just a question. Wasn't a promise.
I want to say Elvis Presley.
That's a good one.
Frank Sinatra.
No, I'll give you one. Oh, only one. Don't get carried away. Only one. You've got Elvis. You've missed Frank. What a shame.
But I okay, fine, fine. I'll take Elvis.
Take Elvis.
I feel like I should have gone more historical though.
Too late. Like Jesus. Oh, you did you did did you speak to John? No. Did he say Jesus? He did say Jesus. We're spending a lot of time together. This is kind of cool.
Okay. It's actually a timeline of how Kindercare Pharmaceuticals all got started. Wow. I thought that was kind of a cool detail in here. Oh there's little letters as well. Did we get these little
Uh The little letters. Prescriptions. Did you see this? No. Yeah, look. Um Does that say sulfur? I thought it said syphilis.
Oh, probs. It was rough times back then. This is where uh the boss will bring everyone when it's time for them to brand a new concept. Okay. But who really excels in this room Right. is Henry, John Cho's character. Okay. And that's why Eliza even notices how amazing he is as a brander. And that's why she says, hey, I'm not so good a person. Brand me and make me better. Right.
And why don't I hold onto your phone for the selfie meeting. Sure. Let me just Oh, yours. You could have just said no. Were you a selfie taker before the show?
Um here and there, but I I it's okay there are enough pictures of me in the world.
This is true. That exists. This is true. Mostly doing this. Right. Right. bars. Right. Um Or just a little bit hang on the side, a little bit more. Yeah. Like this.
I don't really um take that many selfies. Cuz I feel slightly awkward taking a selfie. I don't know what to do with my face. Okay. So I do this every time. Okay.
I can get why you get awkward. It's like startled expression.
I think like looks cool when then every time I realize that it doesn't.
And this is what I think is most people's favorite. The coffee machine. This bad boy right here.
That's a bad boy.
Do you see how many options we have? There's even a chai on there. There's even a chai. Chai latte. This is modern. This is like 2000.
It's When I first came to work here I was like, really? Yeah. Right. Yeah.
This bad boy makes everyone happy.
This is nice. Goodness. It's really good. Okay. It's really good. Starbucks has nothing on us. It's really good. We can wrap this up. That's great. And cut. I've got my coffee.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Karen Gillan
Star of 'Selfie' interviewed
- John Cho
Star of 'Selfie' interviewed
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Co-star giving a set tour
- George Bernard Shaw
Author of 'Pygmalion', which 'Selfie' is based on
- Eliza
Character in 'Selfie'
- Henry
Character in 'Selfie'
- Jesus
Mentioned as an ideal selfie partner
- Elvis Presley
Mentioned as an ideal selfie partner
- Frank Sinatra
Mentioned as an ideal selfie partner
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