00:00We are here with the one, the only, Madison Pettis.
00:03We're going to talk all about her new movie, The Wrong Paris,
00:06which I just, I mean, I was telling you before, I loved it so, so much.
00:10And you are so nice.
00:12What was it like playing this, like, kind of mean girl antagonist type of character?
00:16I mean, it's always fun to play something that's not like you.
00:19I've played a mean girl a couple times now.
00:21I don't know why they keep picking me to play these mean girl roles.
00:23I'm such a nice person.
00:25But, yeah, it was really fun.
00:26And also, even though she is sort of like the mean girl villain role,
00:29I tried to make her still a little bit likable
00:32because I think to be a contestant on this dating show
00:34and be someone that Trey would actually consider picking,
00:37she couldn't just be, like, you know, full, full bitch.
00:40The casting director said when they saw my tape, they were like,
00:42you actually, like, struck a nice balance of being mean to Dawn
00:45but, like, still somehow likable.
00:47So I'd like to think that I still brought a little bit of, like,
00:50I humanized her a little bit and didn't just make her, like,
00:52100% stereotypical mean girl.
00:54The Wrong Paris, it's a rom-com, and it's about this reality dating show.
00:58Are you a fan of any real-life reality dating shows?
01:01I've seen, like, bits and pieces.
01:02I'm, like, more of, I watch more scripted stuff than reality.
01:06But I watched, you know, The Bachelor growing up.
01:08My friends, like, did Bachelor watch nights,
01:10and I keep up with the Love Island stuff.
01:12I feel like, you know, I know all the mamacita and all of those things,
01:16and I watched some to get ready for this movie.
01:18And I watched a little bit of, like, Southern charm,
01:20since this character is Southern and it takes place in Texas
01:22to get a little bit of that influence as well.
01:24Was there any specific, you know, either reality star, reality dating star
01:29that you were like, this is kind of the map, this is how I want to kind of play her?
01:35I didn't base her off of anybody.
01:36I feel like I was basing her off of more, like, mean girl roles in films that I love,
01:41like Judy Greer in 13 Going on 30.
01:43I feel like it's such a good mean girl that's, like, nice to your face,
01:46but behind your back she's evil, and I feel like that's what Lexi really is.
01:49Like, she puts on, you know, she knows the cameras are watching her,
01:52but when she gets down to business, she's really mean.
01:54So I was basing it off of characters like that.
01:56You also star alongside Miranda Cosgrove, who was, like you, part of many of our childhoods.
02:01And you guys must have been kind of around the same age when you started on Disney
02:05and she started on Nickelodeon.
02:06Did you guys ever talk about what that experience was like for the two of you?
02:09Yeah, I was surprised we had never even met before this
02:12because it's just such a small world with the Disney and Nick kids.
02:15But I always loved watching her.
02:17Her part on Drake and Josh was, like, very influential for my Cory in the House role,
02:21playing that sort of, like, evil little sister role,
02:24even though I wasn't an actual little sister on Cory in the House.
02:25She was definitely that same, like, loves to prank, you know, the older boys
02:29and traumatize them a little bit, and she just does that so well.
02:32I basically was just fangirling with her on set,
02:35and, like, I didn't realize how many references from her shows
02:38are in my everyday vocabulary, like, how many Drake and Josh references
02:41I say on a, like, nearly daily basis.
02:44I say emphasis, emphasis, when he repeats it like that all the time.
02:48We were doing an interview the other day, and it was something about lying,
02:52and I was like, well, I'm not calling you a truther.
02:54You calling me a liar?
02:55I ain't calling you a truther.
02:56And I literally didn't mean to say it to her.
02:58I, like, forgot who I was talking to, and I was like, oh, my God.
03:01I'm, like, a fan.
03:02Sorry I'm throwing out your dialogue back at you.
03:05Like, that's crazy.
03:06Yeah, she was so fun to work with and so talented,
03:10and, yeah, we definitely had a similar upbringing,
03:11so it was really nice to have that bond.
03:13Is it true?
03:14Is there a difference between, you know, the Disney Channel kids and the Nick kids?
03:17I don't know what the difference would really be.
03:20I mean, I feel like, you know, it was separated a bit,
03:22so, like, I know the Disney kids better than I know some of the Nick kids,
03:25but, I mean, it was, you know, super similar, you know, sets and all of that,
03:29so I think we have a lot in common.
03:30I thought the scene where you and Miranda were fighting in that muddy water was so funny.
03:34Can you walk me through what it was like filming that?
03:52That was a messy one.
03:53We were looking forward to doing it,
03:54because just doing that sort of physical comedy is such a fun time.
03:58It was raining that day, so they put out the mud in this pit,
04:02and it was supposed to be, like, kind of chunky, like, clumpier mud,
04:04sort of you can throw, but it got rained on so much
04:07that it was just kind of like we were drowning in this big mud pit.
04:11But it was really fun to choreograph with her
04:13and have our stunt doubles help us,
04:15and she was braver than I was.
04:17When we were walking that plank, they were like,
04:18okay, we did a bunch of clean takes, you know,
04:20doing the dialogue up on the plank before the fall,
04:22and then we would cut, and then, okay, this is the take where we're going to do the fall,
04:25and she ran on that plank.
04:26It was kind of wet because it had rained,
04:28and she, I'm supposed to catch her,
04:29and I was like, oh, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, she went too fast.
04:31I can't, she's, you have to slow down.
04:34I was like, I'm not running this fast on this plank.
04:35I'm scared to fall off of here.
04:37But, yeah, we had a blast.
04:39It was such a fun scene, and another fun scene,
04:42you know, I have to know,
04:43how much practicing did it take to master the art of twerking on a mechanical ball?
04:47Wow, okay, this is a good turn.
04:53Am I allowed to watch this?
04:56Years and years of practice.
04:58No, I had never been on a mechanical ball before this movie.
05:01We had one, like, rehearsal day before we started shooting,
05:04and I practiced on it for, like, 20 minutes,
05:06and our director, Janine, was like, you're a dancer, like, you're just, you're dancing.
05:10And I was like, yeah, but I dance on the ground.
05:11Yeah.
05:12I dance on salt.
05:13Nothing's trying to make me fall while I'm dancing.
05:15So it was a new skill.
05:16And then we did a, some of us went to a saloon in Vancouver on the weekend
05:20when we were filming, and we did a little mechanical ball practice there.
05:23I just rode it like a normal person and not how Lexi rides it.
05:27And I fell off, and I had ginormous bruises,
05:30like, all over my inner thighs from riding the bull.
05:33And that was a couple days before we filmed this scene,
05:34so I have makeup, like, all over my legs
05:36because I was really bruised from riding it the normal way.
05:40But, yeah, it was kind of just, you know,
05:42me and Janine, the director, decided what moves to do,
05:44and we did, I think, just two takes.
05:46It was, like, the last scene of the movie that we filmed in Vancouver
05:48before we went to Paris, and it was hectic, but it turned out great.
05:52I was like, I think I blacked out when I was doing it.
05:54I was a little stressed.
05:55I can't let you go without bringing up the fact that you were part of
05:58one of my all-time favorite Disney Channel crossovers
06:00when it was Cory in the House and Hannah Montana.
06:03Now, there's been all this talk.
06:04Miley's kind of teased she's going to do a 20th anniversary next year.
06:07Yeah.
06:07What are your thoughts on that?
06:08Please.
06:09Please.
06:10If she goes on tour or does even one show, I'm there.
06:14I am going to that show.
06:15I would love to hear her do those songs in her tone now.
06:19Like, oh, my gosh, that would be literally my dream.
06:21Yeah.
06:21I will be there.
06:22You were, like, because we're close in the same age.
06:25So you were, like, kind of that age demographic they were targeting for Hannah.
06:28What was it like to, you know, when you were told, you know,
06:31you're going to be in an episode of Hannah Montana?
06:33I was so excited.
06:34I mean, that was kind of my entire Disney Channel experience was being, like,
06:36I think I was one of the only people on the channel that was, like,
06:39going home and watching it after working on it all day.
06:41Like, everyone else was a teenager and, like, you know,
06:43might have been watching older, cooler teenage programming.
06:46But I was living the dream.
06:47I was, like, every time I was around people,
06:49I was bringing things for them to sign.
06:50Miley was so sweet to me when we did Hannah.
06:52She let me have lunch with her in her dressing room every day with her and
06:55Emily.
06:55And I got to play with her dog.
06:56And I literally brought, like, DVDs and CDs.
06:58And I was, like, I'm going to need you to sign this one, this one.
07:01And she was so sweet and did all of that.
07:03But, yeah, she treated me like I was, like, a cool eight-year-old.
07:07It was very, like, big sisterly.
07:08And she, like, let me hang out and always was, like, really nice to me and
07:11not, like, oh, little girl.
07:13She treated me like she was one of, like, I was one of her friends.
07:15And I always think back on that.
07:17I can't believe how young you were when you commentated on the Disney
07:19Channel games.
07:21You know, if they were ever to do another one with that golden age of
07:25Disney Channel, you know, air all the people from it, including
07:27yourself, and you could pick who would be on your team, who would you pick?
07:31What a great question.
07:32I would hope they do do it because I was so jealous I couldn't compete in
07:36it when I was on the channel, but I was just too young.
07:38It was, like, you're, everyone else is 16 years old.
07:41You're eight.
07:41Like, you can't compete on these teams.
07:43So, I took to let me be the correspondent, which was also so fun.
07:46Oh, I would definitely pick Raven.
07:49Have to.
07:50I'd probably pick Brenda Song.
07:52She's super athletic.
07:53I work out at the same gym as her, and she's, like, super in shape,
07:56so we would kill it.
07:57Um, probably a Jonas brother, probably, like, take Joe.
08:01Yeah, that's a good one.
08:02Um, how many people were on these teams?
08:04I can't even remember.
08:05Oh, my gosh.
08:05They were big teams.
08:06We also had the International Disney Channel kids as well.
08:09Like, they were kids from Germany and, like, all different
08:10countries that were there.
08:11Who else would I take?
08:13I would take Miley, for sure.
08:15Uh, I would take Selena, my Texas, my Texas girl.
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