The Baby-Sitters Club Star Explains The Name of Her Co-Stars' Group Chat

How's it going?

Good. How are you?

Good, it's nice to talk to you again.

Nice to see you. Hopefully, the Wi-Fi's better this time.

Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry about that.

Oh yeah, that's fine, because now it's perfectly fine. You look great.

Okay, awesome. What have you been up to in the sense we have last talked? I guess a couple days now. How was your weekend?

My weekend was great. I've been going on lots of bike rides. So yesterday, I took myself on a little sunset date and I just like sat and watched the sunset and read my book. So that was really peaceful and very nice. So, yeah, I've been having picnics, going on bike rides, all that kind of stuff.

So wholesome, I love it. Bike rides, picnics and like with the sunset, so so nice. You have siblings?

I do. I have an older sister. Yeah, so we hang out a lot too.

They do hang out with her a lot.

Yeah. Yeah, we're really close.

What's your favorite thing that you guys do together?

Oh. Okay, honestly, probably bike rides still. Bike rides are really fun with other people, and sometimes if she wants to go on a run, I'll like ride my bike behind her. So that's really fun. And also she drags me to the beach. I don't really like the beach that much, but she makes me go and I always have fun when I'm with her, so.

That sounds exactly like, because I have an older sister, so I'm like the younger one like you and I always, I'd be the one running though and she'd bike. So. I totally know what you're talking about. Like. Yeah. For your friends, are you talking to them over like FaceTime and Zoom? How are you keeping in touch with them?

Yeah, I've been FaceTiming people like multiple people every single night. So that's been really fun too. Like yesterday, I bought some new plants for my room, so I FaceTimed my friends to show them my plants and have them help me name them, because I name all my plants. So keeping in touch with them has been pretty easy with FaceTime.

What's one name you came up with?

Okay, um, well, I had a like a little while ago, the first plant that I got for my room was named Otis, because I really liked that name. But I killed him. So.

Yeah, I revived the name Otis. And now we have Otis II as my aloe vera plant. Other one, gone but never forgotten.

No, never forgotten. I love Otis. He still has a special place in my heart.

And you are in the Netflix show The Baby-Sitters Club that just came out. Yeah. You killed it in the show. You're so good.

Thank you.

Stacey has the best outfits. I know I mentioned that to you before. She really does. I I wish that at that age I had Stacey's closet.

Oh my gosh. Me too. Honestly, like before we started filming, I was still kind of just into wearing like jeans and a t-shirt every single day. But once I got a feel of wearing really cool sophisticated outfits every day on set, I was like, okay, I can't go back to just wearing plain t-shirts. I gotta wear cute jackets and blouses and skirts and all that fun stuff. So, she definitely influenced my fashion sense in real life.

And you got to keep one of the clothing or a piece of clothing, right?

Yeah, I got to keep a few of the really awesome blouses and some of the jackets. And at the end, we also kind of got to like look through all of the girls' closets. So I took some fun things from Claudia, like like all that fun stuff. So I got some really great clothes from set.

And do you wear them like, are you the person that like keeps them in the closet and like treasures them, or do you actually wear them?

No, I love wearing my clothes. Like even around the house during quarantine, I've been wearing like super fun outfits because it makes me feel like I'm actually getting ready for the day to go do something. So I've been making use of this time at home and just wearing the most fun outfits ever.

I love it. And do you, are you into makeup yet? Like do you do your makeup a lot or just when you're on set?

Um, yeah, I do a little bit of my makeup sometimes. Like sometimes I like to do eyeliner just for fun, or like put glitter on my face, you know, go crazy. But yeah, I do do my makeup.

In the show, Stacey moved from New York City. Have you been to New York City before?

I have not been to New York City. I have always really, really, really wanted to go because it seems like such an awesome place to go to. Um, but hopefully sometime in the future I'll be able to travel there. That would be super fun.

When you were talking about it, did you like look up things kind of about New York City like so you could pretend like what it would be like if you had moved from there?

Um, I mean, honestly, reading the books, like all of Stacey's BSC books, I kind of got a lot of information about her and about like her past life in New York City, because she talks about that a lot. And there's also this one book, they have them for each of the girls, they're called the portrait books. So I read Stacey's portrait book, which is basically just like a biography of her from her perspective. So that gave me a lot of information about her and her life in New York. So that was kind of the main way that I got to know her.

Yeah, and which character like just you and your real life, do you relate to most if you were just like watching the show?

I've I've kind of always felt like a mix of a few of them. I think my main three are Stacey, Claudia and Dawn. I think the really cool thing about all of these girls is that you can find bits and pieces of yourselves in all of them. So anybody can say like, oh yeah, like I'm a little bit Mary Anne, but like mostly Kristy, stuff like that. So, yeah, Stacey, Claudia and Dawn, I'd say.

I love it. And we're going to play a little game if you're down.

Okay, cool.

Okay, so game of lasts. So I'll read off last and then you'll say the last time you did it. Okay. Last time you shopped online.

Oh my gosh. Um, probably like last week on Amazon to get new face wash.

What's your favorite store to shop from for like say clothes, makeup, anything?

Oh, okay. My favorite clothing store is Aritzia. I love that store so much.

Last time you talked to one of your cast members.

This morning. Like five minutes ago.

You guys have a group chat or like how

Yes, we have had a group chat since we met each other at the chemistry read and we have talked on it non-stop for every single day since then. So yeah, I talk to them all the time.

What's the group chat name called?

Um, okay, so it is called Um, I don't even know how we came up with this but it's called Bread Not War and it has all of our like a peace sign emoji and the bread emoji because I think we were having an argument and we were like peace, not war. And then somebody said bread, not war. So then we just made that the group chat name.

I love it. It's like the auto correct, it probably was auto correct or something and it's like the auto correct.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This kind of ties into the next last. Last text you remember sending.

Oh, um, like literally like I said like five minutes ago, um, and we were freaking out about being verified on Instagram.

Did you did you find out you got verified?

Yeah, we all got verified a few days ago, so that's been really crazy. It's like everything is setting in now and it's just so exciting.

You're literally on Netflix, getting verified on Instagram, and it's just weird because you're at home. Like you're not out and about. So it's just like, is this real life or is this not real life?

It still has felt like a dream ever since the second I got cast as part of The Baby-Sitters Club and it hasn't stopped feeling like a dream since then.

When you casted for it, how long after did you find out you booked the part?

Okay, so, um, we found out that we booked the role, um, while we were at the chemistry read, which usually does not happen. Usually they'll like send you home and then wait a few weeks and then you get a phone call. But they decided to tell us while we were all in the room together, the five of us girls, so that was that was a really magical moment. We just all started freaking out and hugging and crying and

It's so true, because you can remember that forever together.

Yeah, I will. I love that. That was that was literally the best day of my life.

Uh, last song you played.

Oh, last song I played. Okay, I can't remember exactly what it is but honestly, it was probably something like Brazil by Declan McKenna when I went on my bike ride.

It all comes back to the bike.

All comes back to the bike. Everything comes back to the bike rides.

And then last time you watched an episode from The Baby-Sitters Club.

Oh, like last week. I rewatch it all the time.

I love it. I love that you I love that you love watching it because there's so many people that are like, oh, I did that and didn't even watch it or like I can't. You're like over here like, I like watching the episodes because it brings back such good memories from being on set and being around all the girls.

So every time I watch them, it's kind of just like a little mini time capsule of those weeks that I was with them. So, I miss them a lot. So it's really fun to watch them. For sure. And that's just it's just so crazy. Like congratulations on everything too. Like I can imagine opening that.

Yeah, it's you guys are great. It's been really crazy and super exciting and it's just a dream come true. It really is.

Well, that's awesome. Thank you so much for talking to us today.

Thank you. This is so fun.

I know. I was like, I'll just continue binge watching the show. So.

Oh my gosh. I love that.