'Percy Jackson' Star Leven Rambin on Tennis Balls & Self-Defense

Hi, I'm Leven Rambin.

There's a buffet downstairs. You want to go hit it?

I think James Franco's there.

Oh, even better.

Is he part of the buffet?

Great to have you here.

Thank you.

Congratulations are in order because you were just named one of the Maximum Hot 100.

I know. That's exciting news.

How do you find out news like that?

On Instagram, usually.

Really?

Yeah. People, like my fans are like, look at your thing on Maxim. And I'm like, what? Okay. Cool.

You twist the cap off this, you release the winds from the four corners of the world.

Why, no, no, not in here. Not in here.

So, Sea of Monsters, this is so this is the second installment but this is your first time around. And you play what I've heard being called a myth mythological mean girl.

Oh. I think that's a great term.

Was there training? Was there

There was uh some fight choreography, a lot of fight choreography and

Yeah. Did you kick Logan's ass?

No, not Not in particular. Brandon's ass I did kick, but that was just for fun.

Okay, that was a that was behind the scenes. That was that was before you started rolling.

Yeah. Uh it was it was a lot of like fight training with like random weapons that you wouldn't necessarily think were weapons.

Is any of this stuff ever useful in life? Like have you ever do you ever use

Absolutely. Yeah.

How so? 'Cause I know you've called yourself an adrenaline junkie before.

Really? Yes. Yes. Um, I mean, I'm always I'm always like I'm like very aware of like like self defense.

What can you teach me? I need to learn something. I'm not very good in that department.

Well, I you like if anyone comes at me from behind or from the back, I mean, I I just like know what to do. I don't know. I just from all these action movies. I I feel like it's a lot of elbowing, it's a lot of knees and

Right in the gut and right in the yeah. That always works.

Yeah. When in doubt, go there.

So, I know um there was a ton of green screen for this. And it is but in this case, I think they built like they actually did have monsters. Like if you're fighting monsters, they did actually have a lot of them in there. So for you, was it a lot of like acting off off a tennis ball or was there a lot of

There was a lot of tennis ball. Uh there I mean, luckily we got to see the illustrations of these amazing creatures that Tor, our director, um imagined and developed and designed and and so he was like, okay. So, remember when you were like, ah, like this is what's chasing you. And it's like this most terrifying enormous monster you've ever seen in your life and he's like, so there you go. Act now and you're like, okay. I get it. I get it. I get it. That's terrifying.

Okay. So, we have a Sea of Monsters kind of like a game for you. Who is your Hollywood god or goddess? Either an actor, director, producer.

I think James Franco probably, yeah, for sure. He's He's a god of like every medium.

Have you worked with him?

No.

Have you met him?

No.

Isn't that sad?

It is sad.

Okay. You're going on a cruise ship for a week. On that cruise, where would we most likely find you or where would you spend most of your time? Playing shuffleboard, at the buffet, in the movie theater, on a shades by the pool, in the night club, at the bar, or in your room, a cruise is your worst nightmare? Um, I'd definitely say

You can choose a few of them. I'd go I'd go buffet.

Okay. Definitely. On a cruise, you kind of have to.

Yeah. I mean, every buffet I need to go to on a cruise or not. Um buffet and then movie theater and then night club.

That's a nice That's a good balance. That's sounds like a fun. I think I'd go on a cruise with you.

Okay.

If gods and goddesses actually did exist, who would you most want to be? Aphrodite, the goddess of love, Athena, the goddess of wisdom and intelligence, Dionysis, the god of wine and parties, or Hermes, the god of travel and trickery? That's a good balance.

I'd want to be like a hybrid of um Dionysis and Hermes. Because then I get to travel and drink wine and party.

Yeah. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. Okay. And last but not least, one item you'd want to have with you if you were stranded at sea on a ship that was going down.

James Franco.

Perfect answer. Could he get you out of this situation, right? He's a god.

Even if he couldn't, it it would be a good last few minutes.