Kyle Allen on Starring In The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and West Side Story

Welcome to Virtual Young Hollywood, you made it. You're here.

I made it. And I'm here. In my house.

Yes. Congrats on the movie finally coming out. The world can see it. How are you feeling?

I feel good. I feel, I feel, I feel pretty good.

How many times have you watched it?

Three.

Did you watch it after it came out or three times before?

I saw it once before, and then I've seen it twice after. I think on the premiere day and then I watched it at the actual premiere.

Do you like watching yourself? Do you cringe? How do you feel when you watch yourself?

Um, I think the first time, I, I think I was in, I was in the screening room and I was just like, I was white knuckling it the whole time. I was just like gripping, gripping my seat with everything I had. Yeah. Um, I think that's just a reaction. I don't really know why. Um, there's no thoughts going on in my head, it's just kind of like panic. Um, And then I would say the second time, oh my gosh, I think I've actually only seen it twice. Yeah. Yeah, I've only seen it twice. Um, but the second time I was much more calm.

Right. You kind of knew what was gonna happen.

I was like, I was like, I'm aware, things are okay. This is this is, this is good. And I was, I was, I was able to like watch it and really appreciate it.

Just kinda got it over.

Yeah. All the nonsense. Yeah.

How do you feel like you relate to the character in your real life? Are you like him at all?

Yeah, um, I, I mean, I, I feel like we would just do similar things with this circumstance. I think I'm about as awkward as he. I think I have about as much game with, with women as him. I, uh, yeah, I think I'm uh, yeah. I mean, I think we've got about an equivalent amount of awkwardness.

So when you read the part, you're like, oh, I got it. I can be this guy. It's me. This is me. Like for instance, like what's the hair? What is what do I do with it? Why do like you know. I'm like he wouldn't know either. What to do with it either. Yeah. So this will be my interview. Yep. We're gonna we're gonna play a game. You're gonna like the game since you are very have a lot of energy. It's called Perfect or Pass, okay? Perfect or Pass. So I'm gonna read off a list of scenarios and you're either going to be like, okay, that's perfect, yes, amazing, or you're gonna pass on and be like, I wouldn't do that, okay? Great. Okay. So picture this, it's the best day of your entire life. Okay? Best day ever. So you have, you have the chance in real life to relive that same day for a year. Or like just like the movie, is that perfect to you or are you gonna pass? You have for for a full year. Just the same day over and over. 365 of the best days ever. And then time continues.

I'd have to try it. I'd have to try it even if it was miserable. I'd have to, I'd have to give it a shot. That's, that's gotta be perfect.

Okay. Perfect. No passing on that one. Okay. You win $1 million, but you can't spend it on anyone but yourself. Is that perfect or do you pass?

That's perfect. Who would pass?

It would just depend if you feel guilty about not spending the money.

Uh, no. No. I would just, you're like that's what the that million dollars I get to spend on myself. Everything else I make can go to someone else. Oh, perfect.

So it's perfect. No passing on that one. Yeah. Okay. So say there was a sequel to the movie, you get a chance to star in it again with Katherine Newton, are you, is it perfect? Are you gonna pass?

Yes, perfect. Yeah.

We figured you're gonna say that. I knew it was gonna but I knew you just picked a bunch of perfect things. Okay. Someone wants to write a book about your life, but you can't put any input in. Like you can't comment on it, nothing. Someone's just gonna write it. And then you have to read it once it's done. Is that perfect or are you gonna pass?

That's perfect. That's fantastic.

I didn't know what you were gonna say for that one. I didn't know if you were gonna pass or not. That's perfect. That's how exciting. What do you think would be the title of the book?

Oops.

Nice. What would be your favorite chapter?

Uh, the, the one, um, titled, why would you do that, Kyle? That'd probably be the best chapter.

We'd enjoy reading that. Yeah. Yeah. Be like, compilations of all the of the ridiculous things I've done. Yeah. Good chapter. Okay. So you get to live in the same room as you did when Henry was playing the video games for two years. Two years. You're just in the room. All the time. Do I get to leave that room? No, you get Uber Eats delivered. You get everything just delivered to you. You're in the room with him for two years. Is that perfect or are you gonna pass?

Oh my gosh, but like that's so much quality time spent with Germain. I mean, we haven't

You should see in that room, like they didn't even get into it, but like our, our set design went. They have every game, every game system.

Might be perfect then if they have every game. I mean that's kinda perfect. That's kinda perfect. I'd get a lot I'd get a lot of uh, I'd get a lot of Germain time in. I'd love that. Yeah.

Which is key. You wouldn't mind that. So you perfect to literally everything. Everything's perfect.

I think I, I kinda made that a a secret goal but I found, I found I found it easy to say perfect for all those, all those things were perfect for me.

Aside from the film coming out, what is one thing that you're looking forward to that's coming up in your life?

Ooh. Ah, so many things. Um, I'm gonna be shooting a movie called The In Between in Atlanta. That's really exciting. Have you ever been? I've never been. That would be good. Never been. Yeah, so new places, always very, very interesting to me. And uh, a whole movie called West Side Story's coming out in December. We've had way too years, we shot that two years ago. It was supposed to come out this December, but then, you know, our global pandemic and that, so they delayed it so that it can come out in theaters this, this December around Christmas and my god, am I excited to see that film? Oh my god.

Do you think that you look a lot different than you did two years ago? So it's gonna be weird watching?

Um, I gotta look at pictures. No, actually. I've got some set photos of it right there. I don't think so. Similar hair too. Still the hair.

Still the hair. How was your hair back then compared to now?

It was the same. Nice. It was the same. It was about the I was about, it was about this length. It's a, it's a, it's a 1950s kinda swoosh. It looked better. I'm gonna be honest with you. It's fine. Life at home is just a little bit rough right now. It's totally fine.

Well, thank you so much for talking to us today at Young Hollywood.

Thank you.

Thank you for taking the time. We'll talk to you soon. Congrats on everything.

Thank you. Thank you so much.