Gregg Sulkin on "Faking It" in Real Life

Great to have you in the house. Great to see you.

Thank you very much. Good to see you. We just saw each other.

I know. Not that long ago.

I know. Why my evil laugh just came out.

So let's talk about faking it. Um, MTV show. Obviously, the premise is it's something that really hasn't been done before. Right, yeah.

And and it's definitely a unique show. Um, I think the reason why I wanted to get on board with the show was number one, it was contemporary, and number two, it sent out a good message to people. And you know, sexuality aside, because obviously the show is about two girls who are pretending to be lesbians to kind of gain popularity in high school.

But what does one of them sort of fall for the other one? Because I saw look in the trailer.

You're going to have to watch the show. Yeah, I can tell. I can tell. Oh, so yeah, but the show actually has a very good message, which is to kind of accept people in high school and be yourself. Yeah. And our show runner is absolutely hilarious, like his writing is fantastic, and I'm really actually proud of the show.

And you're do you play the like a bestie?

Bestie, um. Well, you have a really good friend who's who is gay. Yes. Who is gay. Yes. Um, and also I'm really happy with that dynamic too, because you have a straight guy and a you know, and a gay guy, two best friends in the show, kind of like running the school. And I don't think that kind of dynamic and relationship is been seen on TV before.

By the way, have you ever faked what was do you have any good faking it stories? And I don't mean the the actual, like, either you fake being ill in high school, or you fake, you know, a girl said, you know, do you like this dress? And you didn't like the dress, and you said you liked it. Right.

Well, I think that always That's a good rule of thumb. Always. I mean, my mom has always told me, always compliment a girl's hair every three weeks, because she's probably changed it.

Fake nails.

Um, it depends how long they are. Like, to be honest, if they're like really long and then they try and type.

What about the Rihanna nails? Because she does those long pointy ones. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Mm-mm.

I love that you don't know that. Yeah, no. But girl, like J-Lo, they all have those long.

Yeah, I'm not into anything. You look frightened when I said that. Yeah, it's like it seems like aggressive. Right. And it just seems like, like when you use your phone, how I don't like that the the tapping of the nails on your phone. Can't deal with that. Um, big tans. No. It's very unhealthy. I have that too. I'm going to leave. And I won't do the last fake one, because there's Where's there? Fake breasts? Yeah. Um, let's go there. No, because you know what? I think if it it completely depends on the person. I do think if a woman, it makes her feel more feminine. I think it's fine. I think if a girl is doing it to like gain male attention, I don't think it's smart, because Or fall in a pool.

Did you grow up watching MTV? Did you have MTV in England?

Uh, yeah. We had MTV in in England, but I was never like the musically, like, hip person.

So what what were you listening to then? Like, what were you what were you into?

Still the same stuff I'm into now. Really? Elton John, like your song, which is not very like We have Does that go? Yeah. Uh, you can tell everybody, this is your song. But I'm terrible at singing. I'm embarrassed now.

I'm very I'm very happy that you just did that. No. I I I always say that with people, like, how does that go? And most of the time, they don't do it. So, you're great.

I've I've made you watch again, I think. Yeah. I'm not singing's not my forte, to be honest.

Before we started rolling, you you were talking about when you started on Wizards, that your very first scene shooting in front of a live audience. Right. Getting nervous.

It was very nerve-wracking. And also, because I knew the success of the show going onto it. Um, you know, it was a big deal. Even though there were 200 people, maybe, who I was who I was about to perform to. I knew that it was going to go to millions and millions of people around the world. So, it was nerve-wracking. And then, you know, Selena and David and the rest of the cast were so nice to me and welcoming. And then ever since kind of that first scene, ever since I finished it, I felt like part of the family. And that's a nice thing about having young fans is they grow with you. Yeah. You know, and hopefully, they'll be there for the rest of my life.

I know. Because I looked at a few pictures and you look so different. And we just in just a few years. Do you look back and what do you think when you look back?

I don't know what I was doing. Really? My hair was horrendous.

What? I thought it was really cute.

My mom says the same thing. Like, I used to have this like long mullet. And it just wasn't very cool at all. And my mom always tried to like dress me in like bright colors and obviously she's back in London. So, you can tell now I'm wearing all black. So, hair is different. Yeah. The whole thing the whole thing is different. I guess I'm a grown up.

You've grown up. Who knows what'll happen next time I see you. Yeah, I know. You like the show's a huge hit. Thank you so much. I'm just taking credit for nothing. Thanks for thanks for coming in. Great to see you.

Of course.