JoJo Siwa On Taking Off Her Bow For The J Team

Hi Jo Jo.

Hi, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Congratulations on the J team about to come out.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

When you first found out that, you know, it was happening. What was your like your first reaction?

Finally was my first reaction, you know, my mom and I, we pitched the idea to do this film about three years ago. And so I was like, Yes, it's happening. And the one the one Once we knew it was happening, it happened really quick. And I remember it was like a month before we were filming and I was like, So where's the soundtrack? And they were like, Oh, yeah, we got to do that. And I was like, all right, let's do that. And then had been writing because I knew, I kind of knew that that was going to happen. So I started writing like a month before that even to give to producers to work with um and so that was it was helpful.

Well, that's awesome that it finally happened. Now it's actually really really happening. Actually real. And you had to take your bow out for a hot sec in the in the movie. Do you, how did you feel when that happened?

You know, I thought it was really cool. I thought it was, I thought it was cool to give the message of without the bow I'm still me. You know, and of course the bow represents who I am, but it's not it's not you know, I don't have to have it in.

Exactly. And how do you feel like what was the vibes behind the scenes?

The vibes behind the scenes oh, it was so fun. We all were literally best friends. Like literally the whole cast and I were like family.

Yeah. What's one thing that happened that you just won't forget. Like that was maybe really funny or

So, we we're all looking forward to this one day. And it was the day that we were going to shoot the musical number. Nobody can change me. And we're all looking so forward to it. It was going to be a fun day. Cuz it was like we had the performance number like down, like we could film it top to bottom, we probably have to do it five times for different cameras, call it good. Well, the director had a different idea. And he wanted to do this number. And he wanted to do it in sections. We were like, okay. So it did end up taking 18 hours that day. That's besides the point. We all we have like one more scene to do. And it's like the last chunk of this number, right? And it's the last little bit. And we are all just like on a sugar high. Like, you have to keep going 18 hours. Yeah, fully punch drunk just like not with it at all at this point. So the part in it, so it's like, I wear my heart on my sleeve, and it's like a very like, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it's like very even. And Kiara, who plays one of the Rubies, is right next to me at that part. And to mess with her, I would do the beat off. And we would just be laughing the whole time. So then we finished that scene. Yep. And the director's like, great. All right, here's what I want to do cast. Now, mind you, it's like 10:00 at night right now. Right. He's like, I want to do it twice from the top all the way through. And we were like, What? And we were like, all right, whatever. We got it. We can do it. So we did it twice all the way through. It was torturous, but we were like, we'll get there and we'll be done. Yep. Boom, did it. Ended. They call that's wrap. Woo. Great. We're all like day that we thought it was going to be epic was not and we're done. End the day. All this I don't know, like five minutes later the director's like, hey. He pulls me the three you me and the two Rubies. And he's like, the three of you, we actually forgot to get something. We have to do something with the three of you. We're like, no. So then we all ended up doing one more scene, but it was easy and it was quick. It was just really funny.

That's awesome because obviously like watch it and not think, you know, all like all like 18 hours on set and stuff like that. You don't think 18 hours for three minutes. I mean, it's crazy. It's insane. And do you have any special plans like when it does come out to watch it with anybody like specific or

We're going to have a really fun movie premiere, which I'm really excited about. Obviously, to be COVID safe, it's a drive-in. Uh but it's going to be a blast.

Well, perfect. Thank you so much Jo Jo. And congratulations on, you know, everything. You're killing it.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. See you later. Bye bye.