'Project Almanac' Cast on Favorite Birthdays & Life Do-Overs

'Project Almanac' Cast on Favorite Birthdays & Life Do-Overs
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It's a full house (or a full couch) at the YH Studio when the hot young cast of sci-fi flick 'Project Almanac' stops by! Jonny Weston, Virginia Gardner, Sam Lerner, and Sofia Black-D'Elia chat with us about their amazing on-screen chemistry, plus they reveal who is the best dancer among them, their most memorable birthdays, and what they would do if they could have one do-over in their lives!
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It's great to have the cast of Project Almanac here. Thanks for coming in, guys. It's a full house today. I love having a full house on the couch. Wait, is this an accident or your colors?
This was not planned but we I designed their dresses. Second guest: We're the we're the book ends.
In when I watch the film, there's a lot of times I watch films and I go, they didn't know each other before they started filming. But you guys really seem like you knew each other like your whole lives.
It's actually a really great compliment that we get when people say that they feel like we've been friends for a really long time cuz that was something that we really wanted to come come across making the movie was that we really did get along and we loved each other and we wanted it to feel as natural as possible. Second guest: That's my seventh birthday.
Whoa, did you see that? Hold on a sec. I just saw something weird. You guys, you got to see this. Right there. Look in the mirror. Dude, that can't be. That's definitely me. We need to figure out what I'm doing on this tape. You hear that? It's in my dad's old workshop. It's like clicking or something. What the hell is that? Here we go. Project Almanac temporal relocation prototype. What does that mean? It means time travel. We should try to build it. You guys are crazy. We can't build a time machine. Do you see the tape? I mean, I think we already did build it.
So, there's a scene in the film where you're learning how to You don't really know how to dance. It's a Lollapalooza. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Who's the best dancer of all of you guys?
I actually am the best dancer. Second guest: No, I'm the worst dancer. You know me. We could probably ask. Tell no, tell no the prank we did onset. We all did. So, Allan does this thing called dance dares on her show. So, Soffon and I kind of started doing that to cast and crew members while they were doing some. Yeah, we'd like do this behind them and they'd be taking themselves very seriously. Cuz you know they're trying to make a movie or something. They're like doing something important. We come up to them and do this and see how long it takes them to notice. And we have like 40 videos of us. Just like you're on the couch right now. Oh, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It happens on the couch all the time that I feel like there's somebody behind you all the time. Like I did this like paranoia onset that we were constantly behind people.
Yeah. So there's a seventh birthday, your seventh birthday in the film. What was your favorite birthday?
13 years old, went to a skatepark with all my friends.
I thought you were going to say something else about 13.
You just it's in my eyes is what it is. Like like Yeah, like all we're wearing helmets and elbow pads all cute and just like eating ice cream and cake and stuff. Yeah, no, we were super cute. The most important thing was looking cute. It was very important to.
Were you cute at 13?
I have no idea. Actually no, I do know I was for sure cute, yeah.
He's a heartbreaker.
Someone told me one of my older brother's friends called me a heartbreaker when I was like 11 and it's never left me. I've always known from that point on, yeah.
We'll just call you heartbreaker from now on.
That would be awesome. Second guest: I don't know, my Bar Mitzvah was pretty cool.
I was just gonna say Bar Mitzvah. Second guest: You have to see picture. The day that I became a man. My favorite yeah.
He walked into his Bar Mitzvah just gangster with like rings and necklaces. Second guest: He roller bladed in on my Bar Mitzvah like and I thought I was the coolest person in the world. I was really chubby too. I was like.
He's skating in and everyone was like, yeah, cool man. Second guest: I came out to bring them out, bring them out. It's time to yell at them all.
Okay, never theme. Never theme, lottery. Winning the lottery. Um, blowing, you won the lottery, you're going to blow the money.
I'd buy a lot of real estate. Nice. But I feel like I'm getting older. I would buy a nice investment property. Put it on the side. Um, Second guest: That's how I feel.
No, our characters totally had it right, you know. Second guest: Yeah, our characters had a great time. I mean, my character was a Maserati that's probably something that I would do first.
Would you throw down the cash like you did? Second guest: Oh yeah. Dump the cash on the table obviously. You wait till he's like no way. You can't use a credit card.
Yeah, what do you I finish this sentence you guys, before the end of the world I want to.
Go to Bora Bora, I've always I was just there.
Were you really?
Yeah, it's crazy. It's the most beautiful place in the world. I want to go so bad. Second guest: Yeah, just hooking it up, a buddy, so Um, trying to think. What was the question? I forgot.
Heartbreaker, you know, whoop's people. Heartbreaker was uh getting a favor, you know. Um, so there's a theme in the movie about having a second chance and doing having a do over. Do you have either audition or anything in your life you would like to do over?
So, um, I had an audition for one line in a movie. So the line was, you're ruining my life and I come in and I just go Leave me alone. And the casting director was like, great, great, great, great. Awesome Sam, but can you try one like where you're saying the line and I was like, Yeah, no, you know I just thought I figured cuz it was so short like I could just put my own spin on it. And she was like, yeah, that's great. But just do it right this time and then maybe we could do that. I was like, wow.
That's a really good audition story. That's a good one. Any any other do overs?
Um, I have plenty of audition stories but something like embarrassing that's happened to me that I've I've been telling this story a lot today when I'm asked this question, but I was on a date with this guy and it was like one of our first actually, the only date I ever went on with this guy. We were in a movie theater and I went in for a kiss and I sneezed on his face.
So who's choice was it not to see each other again? You cuz you're embarrassed or him cuz he was like, yeah, she. Was that your just your instinct kicking in? I feel like you and I were separated at birth. A lot of similar qualities.
We have very similar qualities.
And what about heartbreaker?
Heartbreaker would uh take back. What would I take back? Any do over? Yeah, do over's man. I don't know. I just don't know.
You just have you just didn't it all right.
Yeah, well I like I like I like screwing it up a little bit.
Again, I thought you were going to say something else. It's never mind. Maybe it's you then. I don't know what's going on. We're going to get so much trouble for this interview. Oh I love it though. I love it. I think I see 60 years from now. It's going to be like Project Almanac 50. I hope we have a new cast by then. I did it with like 21 Jump Street at the end where they have like 20 or like 54 Jump Street. Or the movie Boyhood, it takes 12 years. Anyway, thank you guys for coming in. It's a lot of fun. It's a great, great movie. It makes you think. You come out of it going, wait, what year am I in? Wait, hold on. I got to reset my whole life. So, it was awesome.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Jonny Weston
Cast member of Project Almanac
- Virginia Gardner
Cast member of Project Almanac
- Sam Lerner
Cast member of Project Almanac
- Sofia Black-D'Elia
Cast member of Project Almanac
- Allen
Does 'dance dares' on her show
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