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The last time we chatted with Joshua Bassett and Matt Cornett, they were chilling in the Young Hollywood Studio, shooting the breeze and enjoying some lollipops... simpler times! Now, we catch up with the "High School Musical: The Musical - The Series" cuties over Zoom to get the scoop on what we can expect from the long-awaited second season of the hit Disney+ show and also pit the two against each other in game of "Who Said What?"! Find out how well they know their own co-stars by guessing which of them said what quote in past interviews, including who wants to collab with Hilary Duff, who takes the most selfies, who is the best at TikTok, and more -- see who comes out on top! Plus, the boys each describe Season 2 in three words!

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Young Hollywood

Hi boys. What's up? What's up? Last season, you guys were in person, you remember? : I know. I of course, yeah. I got a lollipop there and everything. I still remember it like yesterday.

Young Hollywood

Oh, the lollipop. I do remember. You were so excited for your lollipop. We have to get. We literally We literally posted a Tik Tok of you take getting the lollipop and eating the lollipop. : That's amazing. That's amazing.

Young Hollywood

There we are. Congrats season two 'bout to drop. Hey yo. : Thank you.

Young Hollywood

Okay, so we're gonna play a little game. : Let's do it.

Young Hollywood

We're gonna play a little game, just like we did in person. So, it's who said what. So, basically the idea of the game is we're gonna reference some of what you've said in the past interviews on Young Hollywood and just things in general on the internet. All right. You guys included plus the rest of your cast members. : Oh goodness, okay. : Okay, I'm ready.

Young Hollywood

So, I'm gonna say it and then you guys are gonna have to guess who said it out of you guys or your cast, and then there'll be a follow-up question related to it, okay? : All right. : Okay. : Who's the producer? Sorry.

Young Hollywood

You can honestly, just if you know it, like automatically, you can just shout it out. That. Either one of them. But, if you don't then that's gonna be awkward. Okay. Okay. This The question was, who is one artist you'd want to sing a song with? The person answered, go to Hillary Duff. Who said it? : Josh. Right? : Yeah, it had to be me. It had to be. : Yeah, who's the producer? : Yeah, yeah, yeah. : Yeah. Hey, I guess I lost, cuz I think he just pointed at myself. But, I definitely pointed before he said it. : Wait, are we on a team or is this another competition?

Young Hollywood

It's a competition. : Oh, of course. Okay, all right, well. : Ah, yeah, that's tough. I guess technically Matt followed the rules, so he gets the point that one. But, everybody saw me point to me first, but okay. : Yeah. Instinctive. : I think you played with me. You added it. It's just

Young Hollywood

Okay, but who now is it at the same would you wanna have a song with Hillary Duff and then what about you, Matt? : A song with Hillary Duff? Yeah. : Wait, what was the question? Who'd you want to have a song with? : Oh, I would say Harry Styles, definitely. I mean, I still wanna do a song with Hillary Duff, like who doesn't wanna do a song with Hillary Duff? But, I'd say Harry Styles probably takes the cake.

Harry Styles

For me, honestly, this this might sound a little little corny, a little stupid. But, um I just found out last night that um on my Apple Music, my top two listened to artists of 2021 are Joshua Bassett and Olivia Rodrigo. Um so, I think honestly either Joshua Bassett or Olivia Rodrigo would be great to sing a song with.

Young Hollywood

That's that's amazing.

Harry Styles

I know. I literally pulled up my Apple Music, and looked at my top artists for 2021 and I was like, you're kidding me. I was like, I'm your super fan here.

Young Hollywood

The quote was, he took about a hundred selfies a day. What cast members? : Wait, The delay. Well, I I'm trying to think, well, does Frankie It's probably talking about Frankie, but I don't think Frankie said that. : It's about Frankie. But, Josh wins. : But, Josh said it? That was it? : Yeah. Give me, ooh. : Yeah. That makes sense. That makes sense.

Young Hollywood

One to one. Is it still the same? Did he did he take the most selfies this? : A hundred percent, he's still the he's still the king. : Oh for sure, yeah. Frankie. : Oh, yeah. Selfie God, yeah.

Young Hollywood

I like to do weird things on the inside of my mouth. Is that is that Olivia? I feel like she's talked about like making like weird things with her tongue before. : Oh, maybe. I I do I have to guess? Okay, I'm gonna go with Olivia then. I'm gonna take it. But, but it doesn't count because Matt already said it. So, I gotta guess somebody else, right? I don't I don't have no idea.

Young Hollywood

Matt wins. So, Matt's in the lead again. But, she said that in the Young Hollywood interview. But, it was about something with her tongue, right? : Yeah, what's like your weirdest habit and like like that your dad makes fun of you for. : Oh. : Yes, that's true. That's true.

Young Hollywood

Is it still who has the weirdest habit on set now this season? : Weirdest habit? What do I say, Matt? You always make fun of me for what I say on set. : Oh. : Oh, that's true. So, every single line Josh says, not maybe not every line, that might be exaggerating. But, a lot of lines Josh says, um he'll add like a little, all right? at the end of it. So, it'll be like, I think we should really do this, guys, right? And like there's always like a little, all right? And it's like a nasally little, all right? Why, Josh? : It's my filler word. When I'm not like thinking of the next line or like just feel like I need an umph, then I just say, all right, but whatever. I don't even realize that I do it. I don't I only do it as Ricky but anyway, whatever.

Young Hollywood

I don't google myself often, but I do google my cast members birthdays. Who said it? : That's either myself or I think it's me. I'm gonna say Frankie. : Ooh, actually that makes sense too.

Young Hollywood

Okay, what's your final answer? Frankie, Josh? : I'm gonna go with me.

Young Hollywood

Okay, Matt wins. Josh, you're just not getting it today. : Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We did an interview earlier and I kicked his ass. So, I don't need this. : I don't know I remember that actually. I'm pretty sure eight to zero, it's pretty pathetic, Matt. : Well, okay. It's about to be twelve to one. : It's four to three right now, right? : Four to three? I think you have two. : I think you have two, Josh. No, I think you have two. I think Matt has four. : No, but um Matt did Matt did say that. You you got that. It's it's still true. I still have to google most of my friends birthdays. : Oh, yeah. No, for sure. For sure. It's also weird when you like google a friend's birthday who's like not in the public eye and you're like, ooh. Like, I can't. You're like, oh. : Right.

Young Hollywood

Wait, what do you What's the last thing you guys remember googling? Like today, like last thing? : Um I think I googled Best Buy because I was trying to buy a ring light, because I'm doing interviews and I realized that the sun's gonna go down. I just moved to this place and I don't have a ring light. So, I think it was Best Buy, ring light. : I funny enough, mine was actually Best Buy as well, but I was buying something video game related. So, : He's a video game guy. : Two kinds of people.

Young Hollywood

I definitely have beat all of you in Tik Tok. : Sophia. : Sophia.

Young Hollywood

Josh, you get it because you said it first, but you were probably right. : Oh yeah, baby. Josh coming back. : What did he raise his hand? No, I'm kidding. : What? I don't think you did either, Matt. : I I said I said, all right, all right, all right. We'll count it. : I I specifically asked if we'd be raising your hands and she said no. So, : No, it's okay. It's okay. I It's all right. We'll give it to you. : I know it's all right because I'm playing by the rules. You don't need to tell me it's all right. : Oh, okay. All right. Still losing though. So, it's awkward. : All right. All right. Oh, man.

Young Hollywood

Who who is the best at Tik Tok on set? : Sophia. : Sophia. : Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Do you just make a lot on set or you guys aren't allowed to make them on set? : Uh, we've made a few on set but we just can't post 'em yet. But, Yeah. Um she I don't know. I feel like she's always making a Tik Tok. I know. Outside, yeah. Outside of work if we're hanging out outside of work or like anything like that, she's constantly making Tik Toks.

Young Hollywood

How would your friends describe you? Well, beautiful isn't an option. Who said that? : Oh, Frankie. : Frankie.

Young Hollywood

Josh got it, but you were probably right. : Oh, let's go. I was trying to think. Does it mean we're tied? Does it mean we're tied? : I think you're still one more behind. Yeah, I think. : Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. It's 5-4, it's 5-4. Yeah, he got one more on you. : You know what, you're right. Yeah, 5-4. : We're gonna rewatch and it's not gonna be right at all. It's not gonna be right. We'll put a little tablet. We're gonna piss so many people off in the comments. We should just not correct it. Okay. : No. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Well, who how would you describe Frankie in one word? You guys's like personally. : Iconic. I Literally, iconic. : It's true. He's an icon. : Yeah. Frankie A. Rodriguez, everybody. Who's according to Google 36 years old. : That is a fact. He's like 36 on Google for I think it might have been like 47 or something like that. But, yeah, I just thought it was hilarious that like every time you Google Frankie Rodriguez, he's 36. But, anyway.

Young Hollywood

I was three and a half hours late to set because none of my alarms went off. : Joshua.

Young Hollywood

Matt wins, that one. : I didn't know. But, you got that right. : I remember that day so so perfectly, because all of us were trying to call Josh. Tim had tried to call Josh a million times. Our first AD Brent Geisler tried to call Josh a million times. All of us were trying to call him and nobody could get a hold of him. And then I think he said you woke up and like like freaked out because of all the missed calls from mainly Tim. : Well, okay. It was an active call. So, I woke up, I woke up and I was like, huh?

Guest

I literally just woke up confused. I just remember being like, what's going on? I I looked over, my phone was ringing. It was a FaceTime call from the first AD, and I was like, why is Brent FaceTiming me? And I looked at the time and I was like, oh, that's why Brent is FaceTiming me. And I picked it up and again I was just like literally a mess. Just looked awful. I picked it up and it was him and then Tim Federle, who's the executive producer, staring at me and he goes, hey Josh, where are you, bud? And I was like, I'm so, so, so sorry. I'll be there right away, whatever. I was terrible. It was the worst experience ever. That was the worst like hour was like getting to work and getting ready. And then when I walked So, normally I walk on to set with a speaker and play like a song. And this day, I didn't even have my speaker. I was so flustered and just whatever. And I walked on to set and the entire crew was just waiting for me staring at me, filming me and they all started playing Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, okay, I deserve this. I I get it. I deserve it. So, anyway. That was the day I was three hours late to set.

Young Hollywood

What about How were you late to set at all this season filming?

Guest

Look, I don't wanna talk about this anymore. I Um look, okay, yes. The exact same thing happened to me as the first time. But, I just caught it earlier. But, yeah. I have I have I have gotten the phone call, like my call time 7:30 and I have gotten a phone call at 7:30 and that woke me up and I'll be like, Yeah. Whoa. I'll be there right away, you know, kind of thing. But, um I set my alarms. I honestly blame Apple. I seriously, like they their alarms just like don't go off. It's Apple's fault, not Josh's fault. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks Apple for making Josh late. It's the thing when I when I once I hung up the FaceTime call it was like twenty alarms that had gone off, that it stacked up, and they just never went off. Anyway. They played that song on set.

Young Hollywood

What what song was the most played on set this season? Not one in the in the script. But, like what song do you guys love? Matt, if you wanna answer that one, you're up.

Matt Cornett

Okay, um I feel like Josh plays a lot of uh Jackson 5, which I'm sure he's screaming right now running to the bathroom that he uh that I'm right. Jackson 5. Although, um something that towards the end of the season that he got super into was uh J-Pop, I believe. And or is it K-Pop or J-Pop? K-Pop? J-Pop. I think. K-Pop. Yeah, yeah. Like like Korean music? I I think. Oh, I'm butchering this. This is awful. It's K-Pop. No, I wanna say it's J-Pop. I wanna say J-Pop. Maybe maybe it's different music I haven't heard of and it's J-Pop. Hold on. I'm I'm googling this. J-Pop over Okay, hold on. J-Pop or K-Pop. J-Pop.

Guest

He's going to the bathroom. You have no idea what you're saying. I am so. No, J-Pop. It's a musical genre. Uh, yeah. Yeah. It's a J-Pop. I I J-Pop. No, J-Pop. Yes. I was talking that you love J-Pop and she she got it K-Pop and then I didn't I was like, oh gosh, is J-Pop not a thing? But, it is. I have a secret. It's both. It's K-Pop and J-Pop. I'm not an idiot. We're both right. I'm not crazy. Yes. Love it. Also, that was so fast, Josh. That was so fast.

Guest

You get good at it when you got only got so much time, you know? But, thank you. I appreciate it.

Young Hollywood

Okay, well, it's probably almost time anyways. But, how would you guys describe this season in three words?

Guest

Bigger, better, hectic.

Matt Cornett

Bigger, bigger, bigger, better and hectic. Wow. Those are some some solid words. You stole two of mine, so thanks. Um, I would say magic, uh,

Guest

Magic.

Matt Cornett

Heart. And, uh, I wanna say like triumph, but that's not really the word, like um, uh, let's just say struggles. We're gonna go with struggles.

Young Hollywood

All right. Okay, well, Matt officially wins the game.

Guest

You can't ask a couple more questions, just softball me a few. Thank you so much.

Young Hollywood

No, you're the loser and Josh is the or Matt is the winner. Wait. I'm sorry. It's still going on. Wait, hold on. Do you mind just Do you mind just saying that one more time that Josh is the loser. Matt is the winner.

Matt Cornett

Josh is the loser.

Guest

Josh is the loser. Oh, that's I'm so sorry, Josh. We still have four more interviews today, Matt. Don't get too cocky. There could be another game.

Matt Cornett

You deserved it, man. Well-earned. I appreciate it.

Guest

Yeah, of course.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Harry Styles

    Matt Cornett would like to sing a song with him

  • Olivia Rodrigo

    Matt Cornett's top artist and wishes to collaborate with her

  • Joshua Bassett

    Co-star and Matt Cornett's top artist; plays 'Who Said What?' game

  • Hilary Duff

    Joshua Bassett would like to sing a song with her

  • Frankie Rodriguez

    Cast member who takes many selfies, is described as 'iconic', and his Google age is mentioned

  • Sophia Wylie

    Cast member identified as the best at TikTok

  • Tim Federle

    Executive producer who called Josh when he was late for set

  • Brent Geisler

    First AD who called Josh when he was late for set

FAQ

Who does Joshua Bassett want to collaborate with?+
Joshua Bassett wants to sing a song with Hilary Duff.
Who does Matt Cornett want to collaborate with?+
Matt Cornett's top two listened-to artists are Joshua Bassett and Olivia Rodrigo, and he would like to sing a song with either of them. He also mentions Harry Styles as a potential collaboration.
Who takes the most selfies among the HSMTMTS cast?+
Frankie Rodriguez is said to take about a hundred selfies a day and is still considered the 'selfie king'.
Who is the best at TikTok in the HSMTMTS cast?+
Sophia Wylie is identified as the best at TikTok among the cast members.
How did Joshua Bassett describe being late for set?+
Joshua Bassett was three and a half hours late for set because his alarms didn't go off, and when he arrived, the crew played 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go' for him.
How do Joshua Bassett and Matt Cornett describe Season 2 of HSMTMTS?+
Joshua Bassett describes Season 2 as 'bigger, better, hectic,' while Matt Cornett describes it as 'magic, heart, and struggles'.

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