Noah Galvin and Ben Platt talk working together on 'Theater Camp' at the Spirit Awards and reveal to THR that they only had "one fight" on the last day of filming.
00:00First of all, what was the most surprising thing to you about the ride of this movie?
00:05I think that the kind of slow roll of it, just by virtue of that it's a tiny movie and we also had the strike.
00:13People have really found it in a trickle, so I've really loved every day or weekend or whatever.
00:19Someone goes on a plane, the little bits and bobs of people popping in to say that they loved it or that it meant something to them.
00:25So it's not this just big wash, it's been a really slow burn in a nice way.
00:29We also made something incredibly specific to us and the fact that it had the sort of universality that it did, I think it was just a thrill to us.
00:41And it was everything we had hoped for. And this recognition is just a little sprinkle sprinkle.
00:49Motivation maybe to continue working with your friends?
00:52Totally, well certainly the two of us are hoping to make some things and write some things together in our lives.
00:56So it was a great first trial with some of our dear friends as buffers.
01:01And now maybe we put it under the gauntlet and do it alone, baby.
01:04Yeah, we really ripped the band-aid off.
01:06Tell me about that, mixing business and pleasure.
01:09How do you, first of all, mixing a relationship and business.
01:12How is that?
01:14How do you guys find that, navigating that as artists but also as a couple?
01:20I think it was really put under, you know, we're both actors so we've existed in this space for a long time as like friends and then in a relationship.
01:30But we really put it under the microscope in working together so intensely on this film.
01:35And I think it was like, we did a good job.
01:38I'm really proud of us.
01:39I mean I think we definitely try to prioritize each having our own spaces and spheres and things that belong to us individually.
01:45So that when we do come together it's really intentional and it's something we really want to make together.
01:49And luckily part of, the greatest part of our relationship is that we really have similar sensibilities and find the same things funny.
01:56So it's a joy to like spend time, you know, making things that make us both happy.
02:01Yeah, we only fought one time on this entire film.
02:03Yeah.
02:04And it was on the final day.
02:06When we were like behind the clock.
02:07We had only like two and a half days to shoot the entire musical at the end of the film and a lot of pressure was on, you know, executing it and I got very anxious and I was on the God mic.
02:16And Ben was like on the God mic just sort of like dumping his anxieties on the children.
02:20It wasn't that bad.
02:21And I was like, go.
02:22I was like, get to Village.
02:24And I like sent him away.
02:26And then I took a minute and then we were okay.
02:28And that was it.
02:30And then you, you know, obviously you made up because then you got engaged after that.
02:34So tell me how that's going.
02:36I was just, I was just reading up on you guys in preparation and I Googled you and saw like some stories about wedding planning.
02:44So I, I, I hate to be that guy at the party, but how's it going?
02:47It's going like, well, we, we just, we're, we have like a long, um, runway, a long runway, long engagement, which has been like really nice and easy and chill and has made the process not feel like as anxiety inducing as I think a lot of people experience this process has.
03:01You know, we just make little decisions at a time.
03:03And I think, you know, we don't feel a ton of pressure on like the, the day that maybe some people feel because we just feel really lucky that we have lots of great, exciting celebration, celebratory moments as a couple all the time.
03:18So there's a lot of pressure on like a wedding being like the largest day in a lot of people's lives.
03:22But like, I don't know, he won like a Tony award at 22, you know what I mean?
03:27It's like, it's different.
03:29I gotta, I gotta ask two questions.
03:31One, which is a serious business question.
03:33Then we gotta go something light for the end because we can't end on this.
03:35This was too good.
03:36We can't end on something heavy.
03:38But I wanted to ask you because you're so smart writer, performer, you guys sing, do everything.
03:44The threat of AI is still, still looming.
03:46Are you nervous about that as artists?
03:47What do you, what do you make of it?
03:49I mean, it was just mentioned yesterday during the SAG Awards about, uh, Fran Drescher talking about just that it's still a thing that actors need to be aware of and, and it's, we just don't know how it's going to go.
03:58Are you reading up on it?
03:59How are you feeling about it?
04:01I've been very uninformed.
04:03I think, uh, in terms of just like being a big scary thing, it's certainly concerning and I would love to be able to still always do my job and be the only one that could do my job.
04:11Uh, but I honestly don't know enough about it to know how afraid to be or not.
04:15I feel, yeah, I'm probably the same.
04:17And I feel, um, dumb and scared about it all, you know?
04:24And then we'll go light.
04:24Uh, this, one of the great things about being here and being included among these nominees is championing, uh, independent film and storytellers and shining a light on some things that maybe need a little bit, a bit more of a light.
04:34Is there a performance or a film that's either among this group of nominees or the wider release from the past year that you really love that you want to shout out?
04:43Uh, I really loved All of Us Strangers, the Andrew Haig film and specifically Andrew Scott's performance in it and Paul, uh, Meskel's performance.
04:50Just amazing movie with like so much sophistication and a really beautiful queer relationship and I loved it.
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