Megan Park

All right J here, hanging out at the Young Hollywood Studio with Megan Park.

Now, Secret Life of an American Teenager, you play the head cheerleader. But here's what I want to know. Glee is really hot right now. If your squad was against the Glee squad, who would take who?

I-I think the Glee squad would squad would win only because they've never show an actual cheerleading on Secret Life. They say we're cheerleaders, but they've never showed it. And then Glee has proved that they they have some legit cheerleading moves. So.

You need to take them though. You might need to need to work on the cheerleading a little bit.

We'd probably, you know, we would compete. We'd give our all, but I don't know. Maybe they should show cheerleading next year. We need to make that happen. I've never, I've never actually cheerleaded though, so.

Really?

No, but I always play the cheerleader.

Why is that? You look you got the cheerleader look though. It's always like the pretty blonde.

Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. I just do. I don't know. I guess I have that vibe.

So let's let's talk secrets. So Any secrets you've ever had as as a little kid?

Um, yeah. You know what, I went through this really, really intensely hardcore Little House on the Prairie phase. Do you know those books?

I do. And what was your phase?

Well, my phase was I love Laura Engles, so I dressed like a pioneer for two years of my life.

Wow. Every single day.

Every single day.

Get out of here.

Every single day, like straight up, I was really hardcore about it.

And how did you get out of that phase that you stopped doing that?

I don't know. It was like I think it started when I was about six.

Uh-huh.

And I looked back at school photos and every kid in class is in like jeans and a t-shirt and I'm in a full on like Man of Night outfit.

Wow.

And nobody like ever thought it was weird, I guess, at that age. My friends don't even remember. That's a secret. I don't know if we want people to know.

I know. We have to talk about a Lifetime movie you have where there's a little weird obsession going on in that. The perfect teacher.

Perfect teacher.

A little fatal attraction. Very fatal. Going on there. That's a little opposite though of your your Secret Life character. You're like, Yeah. Good girl and now not so good girl.

Which was so fun to do, because I love playing Gracie from Secret Life. She's she's very sweet and she's always such a good girl. And this was literally the total polar opposite. So it was fun.

How do you research for that? I mean, you like interview stalkers and like go on Facebook and be like, tell me your best stalking story.

No. But I think the cool thing about it is, she's just like a normal teenage girl, but and everyone can relate to having crushes and being like really obsessed with a teacher or somebody who's older and thinking they're really cool and cute. But she just takes it like a million times further. Right. And really has no boundaries. And that was really fun to just sort of imagine what it would be like to do that.

You're not going to take that into real life and start stalking anybody, right?

No, my family watched with me and they were all like, "Geez, Megan, we've never seen this out of you before." I was like, I guess it's a compliment. They thought I was I was pretty scary in it.

Right. So And now now you have a new film. The title I absolutely love, but I have no idea what it's about. What's the title? And then the the the title to everybody, it's Girls. Guns. And gambling.

Girls, guns and gambling.

What's it about?

It's about guns, girls and gambling. It's really It's pretty straightforward.

That's like going to be the biggest hit ever. I mean, those are like the three things everybody's obsessed with.

I know, that's probably why they called it that. But it's really cool. It's sort of it's sort of in the vein of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Oh. Um but a Western. So it's sort of imagine that. It's a comedy. Um but it's lots of shooting and lots of guns.

Do you get to carry a gun?

I I don't want to give anything away, but I definitely hold a gun at some point in the movie, which was really cool. With an amazing cast. I mean what, Christian Slater, Dane Cook, Gary Oldman, it was amazing.

Well there you go. Megan Park, Secret Life of an American Teenager. Check it out.