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Cameron Dallas, Marcus Johns, & Lia Marie Johnson on the Art of Getting "Expelled"

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Cameron Dallas, Marcus Johns, and Lia Marie Johnson hang out at the YH Studio, chatting about their film 'Expelled' and discussing the best ways to get trending on social media and how each actor relates to their movie counterpart. They also share their thoughts on certain expel-able offenses!

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  • Cameron Dallas
  • Marcus Johns
  • Lia Marie Johnson
  • Patricia L P
  • AdmirableJustin
  • SaeByKaren

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Young Hollywood

Your fan base, by the way, you're like, you're all trending on Twitter, like literally 10 times a day. Like, you're probably trending right now. I mean, is this just How do you Do you come up with certain hashtags that like suddenly just get trending in five minutes? Or like What is this?

Cameron Dallas

This is what I do. It's the Twitter guru. I mean, if you want to like market a certain thing, you can come up with like a hashtag. Like today it's uh two days. I've been starting like seven days. It was seven days until Expelled premiere. Now it's two days until Expelled premiere.

Young Hollywood

I know everybody out there watching wants to know like how do you get a follow from all of you? How do you get a follow from you?

Cameron Dallas

Um, I don't know, for me it's like when someone does What is this? Have you seen The Purge?

Young Hollywood

Yes.

Cameron Dallas

That that's scary, dude. Yeah, the the Which one was it? The first one. The first one when he goes when he goes up and like the guy with like the slick back hair. Oh, yeah. Him. True.

Young Hollywood

What does that mean?

Cameron Dallas

Yeah. The first or second one. That was that was awkward. Yeah, he's so creepy. You're creepy.

Young Hollywood

How do How do you How do you get the How do you get my follow?

Cameron Dallas

You have to be This is this is the secret right here. Funny and original. No. You have to be I for me, it's like you have to be fun, comfortable. I'm doing my job. I just started doing my own thing, like I couldn't look. Oh, wow. Uh, you have to be just like original and creative and funny. If someone posts like a picture of me, like of my face on an ammo or something, I'll be like, wow, that's really funny. I want to follow you.

Young Hollywood

Okay, we have to just go through a couple fan questions. We'll start with @ _Patricia _L _P. In what ways can you guys relate to your characters in Expelled? @ _L _P. Ooh, I want to know this.

Marcus Johns

Well, I'm a prankster. In real life, I've always been exactly. Uh, just pranking everyone. That's just what I do.

Young Hollywood

You have like no fear with that either. Like, you'll just go up to anybody anywhere and you'll just

Marcus Johns

Most of the time. I usually I usually try and judge someone by looking at them. Uh, Like, is this person going to mess with us? Is this person going to freaking deck me or not? But, uh, yeah, I'm usually comfortable just going up to anyone. Um, I'd be asleep. I'm the crazier type. So, um, yeah, it just works. You see the movie and you see me and you're like, Yeah, they make sense. I see it.

Lia Marie Johnson

I think Katie's pretty sweet, and I'm pretty sweet, too. So. Oh. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Okay. And then, okay, @ AdmirableJustin wants to know the best memory of being on set together.

Lia Marie Johnson

I had a really good time. We took the tandem bike out.

Cameron Dallas

Yeah. That's probably for me, too. Dude, that was a great time. Yeah.

Lia Marie Johnson

We were riding this tandem bike

Cameron Dallas

It was a prop. It was like a prop. They were getting ready for a scene.

Young Hollywood

Was the sun setting? What? Was the sun setting? Did you guys like have a dog?

Cameron Dallas

The sun had already been set. We kissed. We kissed right when it went down. Yeah, on the hillside. Yeah. Overlooking the ocean. Yeah. No, but we rode it into Ralph's and stuff. It was fun. Yeah. And then we like talked to those ladies, remember? And we were like talking to them

Lia Marie Johnson

Oh, yeah. And we tried getting them on the on the bikes too. Like the Zero Woman, we're like, Hey, you want to hop on our bike? Yeah. And then they were just like, You want to hop on this?

Young Hollywood

How many people can fit on this bike?

Cameron Dallas

Two. It was two.

Young Hollywood

Oh, but okay. But we wouldn't have made room.

Cameron Dallas

We wouldn't have made room. I figured it out. We could figure it out.

Young Hollywood

Okay, from @ SaeByKaren wants to know, what was the most surprising thing you learned about filming a movie?

Lia Marie Johnson

It's a lot of work.

Cameron Dallas

Yeah, it is. It's a lot of work.

Lia Marie Johnson

And also, I had not done something since I I had done films before, but I was 10 and 12. And I just realized that the hours are ridiculously long because when you're a kid, you're only allowed to work six hours or however long, you know, on a set. Yeah. But we were working until 4:00 in the morning sometimes. And I think the biggest thing was hurry up and wait. That's That's the biggest thing. With the Vine, you're like, you have stuff in your own hands and you can just go out and film it. With this, I'd get out, I remember getting out to set at like 8:00 in the morning. They're like, Yeah, your call time's at 8:00. And like I show up and like I didn't film anything until 10:00 at night. I was like, Cool. I ate grapes all day. And it was but, you know. Impatient.

Cameron Dallas

But there was like But there were times though that we were filming legit for like 10 hours and there was no stop. So, it was like a give and take, you know. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

That is crazy. And then lastly, I have to just do one thing because I have a challenge of like, if you were to get expelled, which hopefully you wouldn't. And so kids don't do this at home. Which of these things would you do that you'd want to be known for? All right. So you're going to pick between two things. Okay. Crumbling up your homework and throwing it at the person in front of you, then blaming it on the teacher or playing your favorite song and keeping it loud even when the teacher is yelling at you to shut it off. You'd get expelled for both of those. Right?

Cameron Dallas

Would you not get expelled for The first one. The first one is crumbling up a piece of paper, throwing it at the kid in front of you and saying, Miss Margaret, why did you do that? And you blame it on her. How does that make sense? Like, I like telling the friends I was like, Yeah, the teacher just like got up and threw a paper like at the student in front of me. I I feel like I'd do that because that's so ridiculous. That's the thing. I think I would do I would do that, but I wouldn't get expelled for it. And also, if the kid is sitting in front of you, you're throwing it at them, you would hit the back of their head. You wouldn't hit, you know. Yeah. There's no logic in the first one, so I pick the second one.

Young Hollywood

You get in trouble for Okay, there's there's more though that you would actually probably get in trouble for. Okay. Crazy. All right, bringing a pet snake in your backpack and letting it run loose or going to school naked? I like that. You would get expelled for both of those. Right? I mean.

Cameron Dallas

With the big Like a big anaconda. I feel like if I were to go to school naked, they might mistake it for the previous snake in the backpack. You feel me? Did I just say that?

Young Hollywood

You just said that. Okay. And then lastly, putting laxatives in the principal's coffee or farting on the school's intercom?

Cameron Dallas

Wait, there's more? Oh, laxatives. Laxatives is funny. I don't know who's doing it. I like the laxatives one. If especially if it's your principal. That would that would be you. That would get you in trouble. Yeah. Farting on the intercom. I feel I feel like you guys are doing that. Even if I farted, people would think I just went, you know. My phone's ringing.

Young Hollywood

Have you ever made a teacher cry?

Cameron Dallas

I don't know. Yeah, we have all of our phones clearly just laying out.

Young Hollywood

Have you ever made a teacher cry?

Cameron Dallas

Maybe maybe once, I can't remember.

Marcus Johns

I have a couple of times.

Young Hollywood

That's horrible. It is. I was just wondering. Are there any other ones? Uh, there was one more. Okay. But this one's not that. You wouldn't get expelled. Starting a food fight in class or doing a crazy crazy Vine in the middle of class?

Cameron Dallas

A food fight would be fun. Food fight's always fun. But doing a crazy Vine seems more likely. For me. So.

Young Hollywood

You could do a Vine of you doing a food fight.

Cameron Dallas

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'd be a combination. It would be at the lunch place, right? Well, I guess it could be in the lunch place, but it's like I've actually started a food fight in my lunch place. My lunch place. The place where you

Marcus Johns

I didn't have a cafeteria at my school. It was called the lunch place. Like you can be anywhere. Hey, you want to go hang out at the lunch place? Or

Young Hollywood

Yeah, no. Well, on that note, all these kids are going to be expelled from the interview. Sorry. Oh, wow. You guys

Cameron Dallas

That was a good segue. That was a good segue. I tried. I tried really hard on that.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Cameron Dallas

    Discussing his film 'Expelled' and social media

  • Marcus Johns

    Discussing his film 'Expelled' and social media

  • Lia Marie Johnson

    Discussing her film 'Expelled' and social media

  • Patricia L P

    Fan asking a question about 'Expelled' characters

  • AdmirableJustin

    Fan asking about best set memory

  • SaeByKaren

    Fan asking about surprising things learned during filming

FAQ

What is the movie 'Expelled' about?+
'Expelled' is a film starring Cameron Dallas, Marcus Johns, and Lia Marie Johnson, which they discuss at the YH Studio.
How do Cameron Dallas and Marcus Johns get trending on social media?+
Cameron Dallas explains that he comes up with specific hashtags, like those promoting his movie, to get them trending.
How do the actors relate to their characters in 'Expelled'?+
Marcus Johns relates to his character as a prankster, while Lia Marie Johnson identifies with her character, Katie, being sweet.
What was a memorable experience on the set of 'Expelled'?+
Cameron Dallas and Marcus Johns remember riding a prop tandem bike into Ralph's and talking to people.
What was the most surprising thing the actors learned about filming a movie?+
Lia Marie Johnson found that the hours are ridiculously long, sometimes working until 4 AM, and Marcus Johns noted the 'hurry up and wait' aspect of filmmaking.
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