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Isabela Moner on Fashion, Filters, & Facing Fears

Isabela Moner on Fashion, Filters, & Facing Fears

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Actress discusses projects 'Legends of the Hidden Temple: The Movie' and 'Transformers: The Last Knight'

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Young Hollywood

While you're here, can we do a Snapchat with your favorite filter? Okay.

Isabela Moner

It's not working for me. It's so cute.

Young Hollywood

One, two Welcome to Young Hollywood. I'm Molly Argue, joined today by Isabella Moner. Thank you so much for being here. I'm so excited to see you in person.

Isabela Moner

Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me.

Young Hollywood

Well, you're everywhere. You're on film, TV. You can sing, dance, and you're loved on social media.

Isabela Moner

I I think so, hopefully.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, you are. I mean, I feel like it's really hard to portray yourself and your like personality on social media. It it's an art, cuz I've met people who are like really cool on social media, but like in real life they do not live up to their social media expectation, you know, like you picture them to be one way and they're not. Like,

Young Hollywood

Well, you're cool in both.

Isabela Moner

It's I really hope so. I mean, thanks.

Young Hollywood

Well, you star in 100 things to do before high school. So, as an experienced person, what is the one thing that we should all do before high school?

Isabela Moner

You should face your biggest fear, I think, unless it's something illegal, then do not do that. Um,

Young Hollywood

That's great advice.

Isabela Moner

Face your biggest fear, like for example, talking to your crush or something. Trying out for the football team. Unless you don't like that, unless it's a fear because you hate it. Then don't do it. But, yeah, just face your biggest fear. That was one of the episodes and I really liked that one. It was people's favorite. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

And what, do you have any fears?

Isabela Moner

Um, yes. Uh,

Young Hollywood

Where are they?

Isabela Moner

Interviews.

Young Hollywood

Really?

Isabela Moner

Yes.

Young Hollywood

Well, I hope you're not I hope you're not too scared right now. You don't seem scared at all.

Isabela Moner

I am. You're a very nice person, but sometimes like you get like weird vibes and like sometimes there's an awkward silence in between questions. It's just like,

Young Hollywood

Well, that's normal. That's normal. Well, we also know you from your role in the NBC show.

Isabela Moner

Yes, Jenny. Oh my god, throwback. Oh, oh, wait. Splitting Adam. I was Okay, that one.

Young Hollywood

Well, I have to ask about Splitting Adam because you're BFF, you kind of met through the show, right? Jace Norman.

Isabela Moner

Jace Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, cuz how was it working with a great friend?

Isabela Moner

Um, it's really great. We had a good time. We really wanna work on something else together. We're trying to like pitch it to Nickelodeon. Love it. And so we're, yeah, cuz we had a really great time and that's how we became really good friends. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, and you could see you guys have such a great chemistry. I have to ask is Jacebella a thing?

Isabela Moner

The Jacebella? I mean, yeah. Kind of, yeah. I'm like, I don't know if I'm allowed to say.

Young Hollywood

Well, he's super cute and I love seeing your guys' pictures.

Isabela Moner

Thank you. Yeah, he's kinda cute. Yeah, he's kinda cute. A little bit.

Young Hollywood

Well, I love seeing your guys' pictures on Instagram and

Isabela Moner

Thanks.

Young Hollywood

Also on Instagram, I've noticed how fashionable you are.

Isabela Moner

Oh, thank you. I try. I try. You're so I love fashion. I do. Oh, she's panning down on the feet. I commented on these shoes earlier cuz they're so cute. Although I haven't gotten a pedicure so you might not wanna zoom in too close. I also like makeup a lot. I'm really I'm really um, girly when it comes to some things, but I'm also kind of tomboyish when it comes to some things. For example, I love boxing. Boxing's like a huge thing for me. I've been doing it everyday for the past like two months. And I've just had lots of fun, you know, being being five feet tall and able to kick some butt, you know.

Young Hollywood

Do you have a favorite boxing move that you've learned yet?

Isabela Moner

Um, well, I have this like routine. It's like right, left, right, slip, jab, cross, hook, right, and then and then I go duck. I I really like the uppercuts. A lot of power goes into the uppercut and the hook.

Young Hollywood

I actually box a little bit too, so and I think it's so fun.

Isabela Moner

Okay. Super fun.

Young Hollywood

So I saw you on on your Instagram and you're way better than I am.

Isabela Moner

Oh, no, no, no, no. I keep like forgetting to lift my heels up and I also like sometimes I lift my head up. You look like a pro.

Young Hollywood

Thank you. Jumping back to fashion, because your Instagram's so cute and you always look adorable. Do you have something from your closet that you could not live without or maybe even from your beauty cabinet that you could not live without?

Isabela Moner

Oh, thank you so much. Uh, what I could not live without probably I have this go-to green jacket. It kinda like catches the light so kinda it's almost metallic but it's also, you know, very like green and like dark and it has like cuffs around the wrist and it's cropped and it's like baggy. And your coloring's kinda like mine, like the dark hair and green eyes. It looks good. It the the skin color, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, you know.

Isabela Moner

Yeah, girl.

Young Hollywood

I love it. Well, you have so many things and you have a Nickelodeon movie. Yay. Legends of the Hidden Temple, right?

Isabela Moner

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was really, really fun. I think that was right after um, middle school. And the set is one of the coolest sets I've ever been on. I've gotten to do stunts, like action.

Young Hollywood

Can you describe the set at all? Like the feeling of being on set for that movie?

Isabela Moner

Well, the temple itself is very cool, the way they put the set up. They basically took a giant warehouse and they made a temple inside of it with different rooms. And of course it's not like every room was connected, but they're very they're placed next to each other and it's as if you're an actual temple. I got lost on set just walking around. Real. They had to give us a tour and it took two days. So.

Young Hollywood

Oh my gosh.

Isabela Moner

Yeah, and it was really cool and I had a great experience. Stunts. I feel like it prepared me as well for

Young Hollywood

Did you do some of your own stunts?

Isabela Moner

Um, I did. I did some of my own stunts. I mean at one point we're like rocking back and forth on this thing and I had to be in a harness and I was like controlling myself completely and if we fell we fell on a mat, but still it was very scary. It was still fun. It was an adventure, right? Good thing I love adventure. You know it.

Young Hollywood

Do you think that helped you to kinda get into character for this role?

Isabela Moner

I mean, at first my character doesn't really like it at first. Oh, really? She doesn't want to be there and I talked to the writers and the directors and I was like, oh, what if she has like some big change? What if she like comes out of it a stronger person? Her two siblings help her along the way or she helps them, you know. It's a It's all about really like the family and the bonding and really Cuz sometimes we take our siblings for granted and we don't realize until we're put in situations that are very life threatening, how important they are to us.

Young Hollywood

And you have two siblings, right? Two brothers.

Isabela Moner

Exactly. Yeah, it's convenient, you know. Two boys. Yeah. Easy. Um, no, the one older, one younger. Um, my older brother, he never gets excited about anything. When I told him about that I got Transformers, he was freaking out and he told all his friends. I was like, Jare, you're not supposed to do that. It's supposed to be a secret until they release the information. He did anyways, but it's whatever. He was excited.

Young Hollywood

I love it. That's a good brother.

Isabela Moner

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Well, I don't know how you have any time to Snapchat or do any of these social media stuff.

Isabela Moner

I don't either. So busy. I try.

Young Hollywood

While you're here, can we do a Snapchat with your favorite filter? Okay.

Isabela Moner

You have to pick the filter though. Okay. Okay, so everyone's like, oh, the puppy filter's so basic. But it's the only filter that I like my face in.

Young Hollywood

So then let's do the puppy filter. So okay. Okay, let's do it. I'm going to go against all of the Okay. All the meanness. Oh, that's cute. We have you can't Oh, and we can do the two-faced puppy filter. Cuz now there's two, right? You do I wanna be the Dalmatian. Hopefully it just kinda chooses it for us so we don't have to choose. Yeah. Okay, cuz that's the original puppy. And now there's two. Oh, wait. Oh, it's on my you got double. Wait a second. That's so weird. Should we hold it sideways? I don't know. I wish my arms were longer. Why do I have two?

Isabela Moner

It's not working for me. It's so cute.

Young Hollywood

One, two So cute.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Isabela Moner

    Main interviewee, discussing her career and personal life.

  • Molly Argue

    Interviewer from Young Hollywood.

  • Jace Norman

    Co-star from 'Splitting Adam' and rumored romantic interest.

  • Jare

    Isabela Moner's older brother.

FAQ

What advice does Isabela Moner give for facing fears?+
Isabela Moner advises facing your biggest fear, unless it's illegal. She gives examples like talking to a crush or trying out for a sports team.
What Nickelodeon movie did Isabela Moner star in?+
Isabela Moner starred in 'Legends of the Hidden Temple: The Movie' for Nickelodeon.
What is Isabela Moner's go-to fashion item?+
Isabela Moner's go-to fashion item is a green jacket that catches the light, is almost metallic, cropped, and baggy.
What was Isabela Moner's character like at the beginning of 'Legends of the Hidden Temple'?+
At the beginning of 'Legends of the Hidden Temple', Isabela Moner's character doesn't want to be there, but she grows to become a stronger person through the experience with her siblings.
What did Isabela Moner's brother do when she told him about getting the role in 'Transformers'?+
Isabela Moner's older brother, Jare, was very excited about her role in 'Transformers' and told all his friends, even though it was supposed to be a secret.

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