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Walker Scobell and Aryan Simhadri of ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians’ sit down for a hilarious game of Lie v. Lie, and learn a lot about each other along the way! From unfortunate childhood auditions to uncomfortable fan encounters and more, the pair blends fact with fiction, testing who can see through the other the best. Did Walker really sing a Queen song at a Nickelodeon audition? Is ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ really the biggest inspiration behind Aryan’s acting career? Between stories painfully real and totally made up, the co-stars keep score, finding out not only who is the better liar, but plenty of wild stories along the way.
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00:00Why are people betting on this?
00:02Is there money being exchanged?
00:03I want in on this dude. Give me like a cut.
00:05Yeah, we need like 20% at least.
00:07Yeah.
00:08That's it?
00:09Yeah, I'll take a low percentage, dude.
00:10Oh, man.
00:11Cash is cash.
00:16Do you swear to tell the truth?
00:18Only the truth. Everything but the...
00:20Everything and the truth.
00:21Wait, just one more time.
00:22Do you swear to tell the truth?
00:23Only the truth.
00:24Everything has to be the truth?
00:28No.
00:29No.
00:30No, I don't want that.
00:31Oh, okay.
00:32Do you swear to tell the truth?
00:33The whole truth and nothing but the truth?
00:36Eh.
00:42Tell your worst audition story.
00:43You would never lie to me, right?
00:44When I was first starting, I went to audition for Nickelodeon
00:47and they made me sing,
00:48but I didn't think they were going to make me sing.
00:50I learned my lines in the car ride there like the whole time
00:52and I got there and I forgot all of it.
00:55And they made me sing and I picked a Queen song and I can't do that.
00:58So I really, I didn't get it at all.
01:02That 100% sounds like something that would have happened to you.
01:05Yeah, that is true.
01:06That is totally true.
01:07I kind of thought you were lying until you said you picked a Queen song.
01:11That's something that like eight-year-old Walker would have been like,
01:13this is what I'm going to...
01:14That's not what I really sounded like though.
01:16It feels like an interrogation.
01:21I kind of love it.
01:22I wish we did more interviews like this, you know what I mean?
01:24Yeah, we never get to...
01:25This is our first interview together.
01:26We never get to just talk to each other.
01:27Yeah, this is great.
01:28Talk about a fan encounter that stuck with you.
01:30I was in Boulder, Colorado, like visiting...
01:33I was out visiting the college town.
01:36There's like an insomnia...
01:38You know what that is, right?
01:39Mm-hmm.
01:40It's like a really small glass shop.
01:41It's probably about the size of this box that's set up here.
01:44And I was waiting outside.
01:45You know, there was a girl in there.
01:47College age girl.
01:48And she saw me.
01:50I could tell that she was having some trouble like knowing whether or not she recognized me.
01:54She was like...
01:55She was pointing at you doing that?
01:57Yeah, like kind of.
01:59Well, she was with her friends and she was like...
02:04And basically, I just looked away from her.
02:06And then this really, really drunk girl...
02:08It was like a Friday night.
02:09A hugely drunk girl came up to us and was like,
02:12Oh my God, you guys should go ahead of us.
02:14I'm not even lying.
02:16This is my friend, Jessica.
02:18And she was just like rambling on.
02:20I was like, what is your name?
02:21And I...
02:22I don't know why, but I felt the need to lie.
02:23I was like, my name's Ryan.
02:25And she was like, what did you say?
02:27And I felt so bad about the fact that I just lied about my own name.
02:31I was like, who do I think I am?
02:32And I was like, oh, my name's Arian.
02:34And then the girl inside the glass shop heard that and was like...
02:37And then like 40 drunk college girls swarmed me.
02:41And then the original, like really, really drunk one who got my name...
02:44I was feeling pretty uncomfortable.
02:45I put my hands in my back pockets.
02:47I was like backing up.
02:48You're really confusing me here.
02:50And then she reached around, put her hand inside of my back pocket.
02:59It's true.
03:00Are you okay?
03:02I thought you were lying because of the...
03:04You described insomnia cookies way too much.
03:07I was going to say true.
03:08I'm in your head.
03:09I was going to say true because I knew that you would try to make it sound like a lie.
03:14So I thought you were lying.
03:15No, it's fully...
03:16She reached around, put her hand inside my back pocket with my hand already in there.
03:20There's not enough room in the back pocket of jeans for more than one hand.
03:24She lingered there like a little bit longer than I would have liked, frankly.
03:29Not that I would have liked it at all.
03:31So there's like a correct amount of time where you would have liked it.
03:36I'm kidding. No, that's not...
03:37Please don't do that.
03:38If you guys see me out in public, don't just go putting your hands in my pockets.
03:42No, I think it's...
03:43I think if you do it for a good amount of time, you might like it.
03:46What's the scariest thing I've ever seen?
03:47I do want to pick something because I feel like I've told you like...
03:49That's how you about...
03:51No, not yet.
03:52I did tell you about that one.
03:53Walker, you can lie.
03:56I know.
03:57I'm trying to think of...
03:58I'm trying to think of a good story that's not believable.
04:02My first time in LA.
04:03Do you know like the theater?
04:05Which?
04:06The Chinese theater.
04:07I was there.
04:08It was my dad.
04:09The first time I was over there, I was there at the Roosevelt.
04:10There was this man in a Spider-Man costume there.
04:13See, I believe that.
04:14We went into the Hard Rock Cafe.
04:16And he followed me into the bathroom.
04:19And he started...
04:20And I was like 10 years old.
04:21And he was like, you really want a picture with me, man.
04:23Like, you really want a picture with me.
04:25You really want a picture with me.
04:26We were in there and he was like begging to get a picture with me.
04:30I mean, maybe that I was going to pay...
04:33I don't know what the motivation was, but then I left.
04:36He followed a 10-year-old young boy into the bathroom.
04:39Are you okay, man?
04:40I was wearing a suit.
04:42Oh!
04:45I think there's parts of that story I believe.
04:48I don't believe the fact that he followed you into the bathroom.
04:51That's 100% true.
04:52Whoa!
04:53That's what happened when I was like 10 years old.
04:54I don't know why.
04:55I don't know why.
04:56And he was like...
04:57It was the Miles Morales one and it was at his waist and he was hanging down.
05:01Oh, dude.
05:02I'm so sorry.
05:03Yeah, I don't know why I keep choosing the weirdest...
05:05Are you okay, buddy?
05:06Can we move on?
05:07Yeah.
05:08Tell your best audition story.
05:09This was like when I first started acting.
05:11I don't remember the drive there and I don't remember the drive back.
05:14All I remember is being in that like...
05:17It was just a weird...
05:18It was like a weird black...
05:19It wasn't quite a black box, but it felt like an interrogation.
05:22You know what I mean?
05:23It's like if this room was dark.
05:25And the guy, he was some like really famous Bollywood actor.
05:31I remember my mom was telling me about him.
05:33I can't remember...
05:34Can you stop lying?
05:35I can't remember...
05:36This is a fully true story.
05:37No, you can't just say that now.
05:39No, it is a true story.
05:40Is it true?
05:41It is a true story.
05:42I win that point.
05:43You gotta finish the story.
05:44I gotta finish the story.
05:45I can't remember what the audition was.
05:46He kept asking me if I could do stuff.
05:47It was like super famous Bollywood actor.
05:49And my mom was sitting in the audition room because she was like such a huge fan of this guy.
05:53Like what could you do?
05:54Well, I could do a lot of stuff, but I just got nervous and told him I couldn't.
05:57He was like, can you sing?
05:58And I was like, no.
05:59And he's like, can you dance?
06:01And I was like, maybe if there's music.
06:03And he's like, what song do you want me to play?
06:04And I was like, I don't want you to play anything.
06:07And I just kept getting nervous.
06:09This is totally true.
06:10Yeah.
06:11And then we left the audition and my mom screamed at me because she was so mad that I just kept bombing it.
06:17She was like, why would you tell me you can't?
06:20You can sing.
06:21You can dance if there's...
06:22Like, why would you do that?
06:24And I was like, I don't know.
06:26And then I just went home and like ate ice cream.
06:29Dude.
06:30I have a very vivid memory of this.
06:31I'm embarrassed to be your friend.
06:34Are we even friends?
06:35Talk about time where we had to act with an animal.
06:37My dog on The Atom Project, whose name was Maryland.
06:42Name in the show was Hawkins.
06:44Isn't that weird?
06:45Stranger things?
06:46Hawkins.
06:47Hawkins.
06:48It was Shawn Levy.
06:49Yeah.
06:50And I think that was a little like nod.
06:51We were filming outside.
06:52It was like the middle of the night.
06:53It was raining in Vancouver in the woods.
06:55And maybe not the middle of the night.
06:56Maybe not the middle of the night.
06:57Now I'm trying to recall The Atom Project.
06:58And we were like, you know when I'm running in the woods and I have the flashlight.
07:01And I'm like, I see that...
07:02Your dog's not there with you on that scene.
07:04Yep.
07:05I'm running.
07:06We do take.
07:07I'm running.
07:08And I'm supposed to be full spring.
07:09And then I'm like, Hawkins, come on.
07:10I'm going to like chase after me.
07:11One of the takes, I was running and I like abruptly stopped.
07:15Because I, you know, normally I would like, you know, run and then slow down.
07:18The dog would slow down next to me.
07:19I ran full sprint all the way to the other side.
07:21And then I stopped.
07:22And then the dog like full tackled me straight into the ground.
07:26I mean I was fine.
07:27But it was really funny for like 10 seconds then I had a couple scrapes in my hand.
07:31I do not remember there being a dog in that scene.
07:33Because after you find the flying saucer you just get right in with Ryan.
07:38This is embarrassing for me.
07:40What happens after that scene?
07:41You didn't even watch the movie that your friend was in?
07:43I watched Sheeper by the Dozen, dude.
07:45I watched...
07:46You know how much I care about you?
07:47I actually watched The Atom Project right before I did our chemistry read.
07:50Really?
07:51Yeah, I did.
07:52What happens right after that scene where you find the flying saucer?
07:55I don't find it.
07:56I just see that something happened and I run back to the shed and it's open.
07:59And then that's where I meet Ryan.
08:00No, you meet Ryan when he comes into your house.
08:03Because you guys both tell the dog to sit down.
08:05I feel like you're lying.
08:06True.
08:07No!
08:08You just don't remember the movie.
08:10Can I lie about like an opinion that I had?
08:13Like can I lie about some...
08:14It's a lie.
08:15It's a lie?
08:16A lie is a lie.
08:17A lie is a lie.
08:18A lie is a lie.
08:20What was the moment you fell in love with acting?
08:22When they put the money sign in Horace.
08:25And your brother doesn't.
08:27I could tell.
08:28What was for you, was it when they straightened your hair and looking through water?
08:31Can we pull up a picture of that?
08:32Can we cut to a picture of that?
08:33Let's not cut to a picture of that.
08:34Let's cut to a picture of that please.
08:35Let's cut to a picture of rolling in the deep.
08:37Let's cut to a little video clip of that.
08:39What was the moment you fell in love with acting?
08:41I've got a good story about this.
08:43I started acting basically through this like acting class.
08:46My parents, I was probably three at the time.
08:49I wasn't old enough to like go to school yet I think.
08:52And they were just looking for a way to get rid of me.
08:54And so they put me into acting classes.
08:56I know this story.
08:57You know this story.
08:58But not all of it could be true.
09:04Stop looking at me like that dude.
09:05Anyway, so this woman like scouts me for this class.
09:08I go and there was this guy there.
09:10And he was like a really like big tall guy.
09:12For his age at least.
09:13And we were all like playing around in the rehearsal space.
09:16Right?
09:17And there's like lamps set up.
09:18Like kind of like, I guess kind of like this boom stand.
09:21Or like kind of like this light stand.
09:23They're like just really basic box lights.
09:25You know what I mean?
09:26Yeah.
09:27Yeah.
09:28And one of them has like a screw sticking out of it.
09:30Like the screw that you used to like put the stands together.
09:32Like right at the bottom.
09:33And there's no way to say this without making it sound weird.
09:38The big tall guy was like kind of like play fighting with one of the girls.
09:44I think he was like flirting with her.
09:46So he was like pretending to tickle her.
09:49And then.
09:50What story are you telling?
09:52Okay.
09:53I guess.
09:54I guess.
09:55Okay.
09:56Just I don't know.
09:57You just need to let me go places with this.
09:58Okay?
09:59In the last five minutes I've let you go whatever place you want.
10:01This is where we end up.
10:02Let me finish.
10:03So me and the girl were already good friends right?
10:06And the guy was like kind of play fighting with her.
10:08And then she got the idea to play fight with me.
10:10And so she started tickling me and I was like no.
10:13Stop.
10:14And then.
10:15I like back.
10:17I keep backing up.
10:18And I run into the pole light.
10:20And that has a screw sticking out of it.
10:23And it wedges into my calf.
10:25And as I'm trying to get out it like.
10:28Pulls down.
10:29This is the moment you fell in love with acting.
10:31It just proves how much I love acting.
10:33And it like tore through my like calf skin.
10:37And like a little bit of the flesh.
10:39And I just dug it out and kept doing the rehearsals.
10:43It's a lie.
10:44It's a fully true story.
10:45No it's not.
10:46I swear to God.
10:47This is a fully true story.
10:48Whoa.
10:49Well there's not like a moment that I fell in love with acting.
10:52It was kind of just a cumulative understanding that this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
10:57I guess the moment I wanted to take it seriously was when I watched Devil Wears Prada with my mom.
11:01And I was like wow these guys are really good at acting.
11:03Again true story.
11:04That's two points.
11:05That's two points.
11:06But write it down.
11:07You know this story.
11:09I watched it when I was a kid with my mom and I was like oh my god these guys are so good at acting.
11:13I want to be that good.
11:14And I started taking it more serious.
11:16But yeah.
11:17I haven't been taking it more serious.
11:21Nope.
11:22Why didn't you hear your favorite song for the first time?
11:27I need to think of what my favorite song is first.
11:31Oh.
11:32We were.
11:33You had just been casted.
11:36And my mom told me like you know.
11:41The one kid you auditioned with Arian had been casted.
11:44And I was like wow I need to search more stuff up about this guy.
11:48We can move on to the next question.
11:50And I opened my phone and I searched up Arian Samadri on YouTube.
11:55This account shows up and it was like Arian Samadri sings or something like that.
11:59I tapped on it and there was this video.
12:02I don't know what it was.
12:03There was a couple different singing videos.
12:05This one in particular caught my eye.
12:08I don't know.
12:09It was like fate.
12:10You could call it fate if you wanted to.
12:13And before I knew it I found myself tapping on the video and putting it in full screen.
12:19And I was sitting there.
12:21You know I turned on full blast and wanted to see what you had to say.
12:25All of a sudden this beautiful voice appears.
12:30I felt like I was brought into a different place.
12:33What was that place?
12:34I felt like I was maybe brought into a different universe.
12:39It felt like my blood stopped.
12:41My blood stopped and my heart stopped beating.
12:42That's called a heart attack dude.
12:43And it felt like I was just...
12:45You went into cardiac arrest.
12:46And then I heard this beautiful voice.
12:48There's a fire starting in my heart.
12:52It was your voice.
12:54It just...
12:55I...
12:56Man I don't even know how to explain it.
12:59It just attacked my heart in a way that I don't think will ever be attacked again.
13:03I'm gonna attack your heart.
13:04What do you think about that?
13:05No it's false.
13:06You suck.
13:07That was the worst thing ever.
13:08I'm kidding.
13:09It was pretty beautiful.
13:10Uh...
13:11Now I feel bad dude.
13:12No dude it's fine.
13:13It was false.
13:14It's not my favorite song.
13:15Just make fun of me as a child.
13:17Have you ever been caught sneaking something off of a set?
13:20Yes.
13:21Okay so it was...
13:22Ah!
13:23And you know that like sword I'm holding?
13:25It was like a one stint and I asked the producer.
13:27I was like, is there any way that I can...
13:30You know maybe have the sword?
13:31And she's like...
13:32You know I think...
13:33And she kind of like said yes without saying yes.
13:34And so when we wrapped, I took it into my trailer and I put it in my bag because I
13:51thought she said it was okay.
13:53And after we drove off, she...
13:56Not her but like the props master that I was working with had like called her and told
14:02her that it was missing.
14:03And then someone, like an AD or something, she told them to call me about it.
14:08And so I had a full conversation with this AD about how I needed to go back and give it
14:13back because I wasn't allowed to go away with it.
14:16Yeah it's a lie.
14:18I was gonna say no way.
14:20No way.
14:21They gave it to me.
14:22You wouldn't do that.
14:24You're too kind.
14:25I know.
14:26I would have asked for so much more permission first.
14:29What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you in public?
14:32When I lived in Colorado, I was in ski camp.
14:34Probably seven years old.
14:36So I know how to ski.
14:37Like I've been doing it for a while.
14:39My teacher, not a great guy, right?
14:42I didn't like him.
14:43I had done this with him a couple times and they switched him out occasionally.
14:47I was following him and he kept yelling at me because I'd stray too far behind.
14:50I'd like take some big turns.
14:52I don't like being in this little line constantly.
14:54So he yelled at me and I decided I'm just gonna ski by myself because I have a pass.
14:59I can get up the lift.
15:00If I just stop and then meet up with them at the end of the day at the lodge, I'm chilling.
15:04You know what I mean?
15:05So I stop.
15:06The next thing that happens is I go down.
15:09There's a bunch of tree trails in Aspen Mountain, right?
15:11I stop there and then I decide, you know what?
15:14Let me give myself a treat.
15:15Let me go down one of the tree trails.
15:18I go down the tree trail.
15:19This maybe 12 year old girl is going in front of me.
15:23You pick up speed when you're going around those corners pretty fast.
15:26And I like full scent straight into her back.
15:30And I took us both out.
15:32We landed in the snow.
15:33And when you land in like deep snow, it's really hard to get out.
15:36So I kind of like I'm laying there for a second and I just hear like these like horrible screams like help like from her.
15:42She's freaking out like it gets really scary.
15:45It's really heavy snow.
15:46First thing I thought was this was kind of the end of her.
15:49I thought I ended this for her.
15:51You know what I mean?
15:52This was the end of her?
15:53This is the end of her.
15:54I'm laying there for a second.
15:57Like this is like probably 10 minutes have passed and I get up and I'm like putting my skis together and I'm just laying there kind of like, you know what I mean?
16:03There's not much you can do and I don't know what to do with this girl.
16:05So you're getting up and putting your skis together but also lying down.
16:08Yeah.
16:09I'm putting it together and I'm like sitting down.
16:10I'm waiting.
16:11The next thing that happens is my ski crew comes back down looking for me.
16:16This girl like starts blaming me that I took her out and then I was putting time out for the rest of the day.
16:21It is your fault.
16:22You did take her out.
16:23It was an accident.
16:24Oh.
16:25What do you guys think about this story?
16:27I'm really good.
16:29I've seen him skiing.
16:30I'm really good.
16:31Not bad.
16:32What do you think?
16:33You think it's true?
16:34What do you think?
16:35False.
16:36What?
16:37I think it's true.
16:38You're sick.
16:39No!
16:40I mean that entire thing never happened.
16:43That was good.
16:44That was a good story.
16:45That was horrible.
16:46I felt like I felt it slipping every five seconds.
16:48Thoughts about how you feel you did?
16:49How do you feel about tying?
16:51What?
16:52We tied?
16:53We tied.
16:54What?
16:55Good game dude.
16:56It's a good game.
16:57We never get to do this.
16:58I feel pretty great about it.
16:59This is awesome.
17:00I want to do more games like this.
17:01We're just us versus each other.
17:02You know?
17:03Yeah.
17:04Look at this chemistry.
17:05To get to know you.
17:06Oh man.
17:08But my method the entire time was just tell you a true story but just stumble as much as I could.
17:13My method was just say true things and then I didn't do that for the last one and then it worked.
17:18Good game dude.
17:19Good game.
17:20Good game.
17:21This was really nice.
17:22This was actually so much fun.
17:23Thank you guys for setting this up.
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