Hey, it's Willa Holland here at Young Hollywood.

We're gonna talk all things bacon obsession and saving her dog.

Hey guys, I'm Erica Rust today in the Young Hollywood studio.

We have the beautiful and talented Willa Holland.

Welcome.

Hi guys.

Now this is your first time on the couch which is an accomplishment in itself, but we need to get you on the pillow here.

Oh my.

This is like next level.

Why am I not there yet?

Oh, wow.

Yeah, cuz I haven't been there.

Yeah.

This is awesome James Franco.

Okay, yeah, this is now a goal of mine.

Yes.

I need to be on the Walk of Fame and the pillow.

The pillow of fame.

So you've been in the industry since you were 7.

Yes.

Right?

And I actually heard that it was Steven Spielberg who told your parents that you needed to be in front of the camera.

That is, I mean, I I was very young when that happened.

So I have no recollection of it happening, but my mother is in the other room and I'm pretty sure she will vouch for that.

Okay.

That's all I can say on that one.

She's right.

The first show that you did or one of one of the most popular ones was uh The OC and you played the younger rebellious sister to Mischa Barton.

Yes, I did.

Do you have any fun stories about being on set with them?

Um, I mean, just altogether that set was a a whirlwind for me.

It was a a life lesson into everything about this industry, but altogether it was just it was priceless.

Now I heard that you passed on a lot of pilots throughout the years after, you know, The OC and stuff.

So what really drew you to Arrow?

I mean, the way that the pilot was written was a very big thing for me because I I have always looked at pilots during pilot season and always paid attention to things, but nothing really popped up that I kind of wanted to stick my teeth into.

And then Arrow came along and that script was amazing.

I mean, I I slammed down that last page.

It was like, All right, let's do this.

I want to pick up an arrow and start shooting them around and taking money from the rich and handing it over back to the people that deserve it who doesn't want to be exactly.

Now, you work very closely with Stephen Amell on the show.

You know, anything that you can tell us about him?

He's He's a good guy.

He's um, we've had a very interesting relationship dynamic.

We met each other and didn't ever realize that we'd never see each other again, maybe eight months before both of us got casted on the show in an an audition room.

And I was sitting down and all of a sudden this noise is coming.

This is unheard of unhumanly noise is coming to the right of me.

And it's coming from his stomach.

And then he's just sitting there and he's like, I'm really sorry.

And he's just apologizing to me because it's that distracting to the point where you can't even focus on the the task at hand.

Oh man.

And then, uh, you know, going into Arrow, I saw him attached and I was like, oh, great.

The stomach growler.

This is gonna be awesome.

Um, but then I I I actually got to see him right before I went in for the test and, uh, we actually joked about it and that was kind of the beginning to an awesomely amazing relationship.

You guys have a really great dynamic on the show and you tend to play um, these kind of like rebellious troublemaking type teens.

Back in a minute.

Ollie, hey.

This party is sick.

Who let you in here?

I I believe it was somebody who said, Right this way, Miss Queen.

Well, you shouldn't be here.

Oh, I'm not twelve anymore.

No, you're seventeen.

Ollie, I I love you but you can't come back here and judge me.

Is that is that true to true to real life at all?

I hope it's not saying anything about me.

I mean, really, guys, I I had my moments who doesn't when they're a teenager, but now I like to think more than most people at 21, I am very grounded and would love nothing to but to stay at home and hang out and watch TV now.

It's like a typical Sunday or Saturday for you would be just on the couch, hanging out?

It would be deep frying and then going to the couch because I had got a deep fryer.

So I know that you also have like a little bit of of a bacon obsession I've heard.

I do.

But I actually recently had to stop.

Oh my gosh, that's heartbreaking.

Really actually most my friends say that they don't know me anymore.

What happened?

They're like, Who are you?

Did your cholesterol just like peak, did it?

I'm afraid I haven't gone there yet.

I haven't like gone to the doctor to check, but I read an article saying that each slice of bacon you eat takes off 9 minutes of your life.

Apparently, I'm dead.

So you have like really limited your life here.

Yeah, slightly so I'm trying to gain it back by x-ing out bacon as much as I can, which has been very difficult cuz I did cook it last night and then put it into an In-N-Out burger.

So I know that you also do Pilates.

I haven't actually been keeping it up.

Um, I I did it a a little while and and I'm not gonna lie, it hasn't stuck around especially because I actually, uh, I broke my ankle uh six months ago.

I have a 95-pound, uh, Doberman Pit Dog.

Uh, he's almost two years old now and he's he's you ran a lot and exercise a lot.

So I have a skateboard and I was skating down the street with him and he was towing me and someone at a stop sign didn't stop and it was either get hit by a car or jump off and and save my dog's life, mind you as well.

So I yanked the leash and broke my ankle in the process.

Yes.

So you like to skateboard?

That's very cool.

Uh, skateboarding is a very big part of my life, actually.

It's when I had my skateboard.

Um, I absolutely suck.

I can barely push myself around.

That's why you have your dog.

Especially with a bad ankle.

I mean, it's just like, it's done.

I I can't do it anymore.

But, uh, all my friends like grew up in the Palisades.

So I became friends with a group of skaters and it just always throughout my life has always been a a very important thing to me cuz it it reminds me a lot of my childhood and very good times in my life.

I love it.

Well, you are so awesome.

Thank you so much for visiting us.

And like I said, next time you will see your face on this pillow.

I hope so.

Be excited.

I would love that.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.