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Everly Carganilla & Connor Esterson | Spy Kids : Armageddon | COVE Podcast 36
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Navigating Hollywood as a child actor. Spy Kids. Bigfoot. Robotic crabs. Texas heat. Entrepreneurship. Piano. Guitar. Stuffies. Tear sticks. Stunts. Making movies.
Let's talk about it all... with Robert Rodriguez's newest Spy Kids: Everly Carganilla and Connor Esterson.
These two bright young talents give us the inside scoop on their journey through acting, sharing their vibrant passions that stretch beyond the camera's gaze. From Connor's love for music and fishing to his entrepreneurial side hustles, including a backpack line and comic book creation, we cover it all. Everly's infectious enthusiasm adds a personal touch, making this conversation one you won't want to miss.
Cue the adrenaline as we recount the thrill and challenges of filming "Spy Kids: Armageddon" in Austin, Texas. Everly and Connor bring us right onto the set, amidst the seesaws, fans, and a river of lava, painting a vivid picture of the action and camaraderie experienced between takes. As they weave through their favorite on-set moments and stunt-coordination tales, you're bound to feel the electricity of the creative process that pulses through Austin's filmmaking scene. This episode isn't just a look behind the curtain—it's a leap into the heart of movie-making magic.
But what does it take to bring such vivacity to the screen? We delve into the emotional rollercoaster and physical demands our young stars face. As they share the personal significance of mementos and methods for conveying powerful emotions, you'll find yourself connecting with the raw, real side of acting. Prepare for a heartfelt exploration into the lives of two young actors navigating the exhilarating world of film, where each challenge is a step towards a dream.
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INTRO MUSIC: “Papi Beat” [ KICKTRACKS ]
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HOST, CREATOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, EDITOR: Paul Carganilla
Child Actor Connor Esterson Interview
Speaker 1I had to go to Lancaster and Lancaster and I am in the middle of filming a I don't know my geography.
Speaker 2Sorry, that's not in the US, is it no?
Speaker 1Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Carganella Online Variety Entertainment Podcast. Here's your host, Paul Carganella.
Speaker 3Hello everyone and welcome to CovePod. This is the online variety show in which we like to entertain and inspire our podcast listeners and YouTube viewers with a wide variety of entertainment offerings, including, but not limited to, of course, poetry, storytelling, music, dramatic readings, travel blogs, and quite often we get to have conversations with really interesting people and great entertainers, and that's what we have today I'm so excited to. I will be bringing in our newest spy kids in the Spy Kid franchise off the latest Netflix film, spy Kids Armageddon, directed by Robert Rodriguez. But we've met one of the actresses before in the past, but unfortunately it was during the strike, so we really couldn't talk about any of her film projects. We're going to talk to my daughter.
Speaker 3Everly Carganella is joining us again. Hi Hi, class. Hello, sweetie. But her co-star in the movie is Connor Esterson. Hello, he's a rising American child actor known for his versatile roles in film and television. Notably, he starred as Tony Tango Torres in Spy Kids Armageddon, as I just mentioned, and portrayed Jeffrey Nally in Quantum Leap recently, and he also recently completed filming Santa's Chair alongside Jeremy Piven I love him Elizabeth Mitchell and Vernon Davis, and he's set to begin shooting a big foot themed film here in April. I'm excited to hear all about that. But beyond acting, he is branching into entrepreneurship as well, with a backpack line called Brainstorm Supply Company, and if you're watching the YouTube video, he's got a backpack there showing off right here on the video and he's co-creating a comic called Brothers Code with Rogue Matter. Welcome to the show, connor.
Speaker 3Thank you for having me here, yes thank you so much for being here Now. Whenever we have a new guest, we invite you to do a. We call it the 60 Second Ice Breaker Introduction Challenge, where I just read a bunch of professional stuff from your work, but I want to hear more about you. Anything else you can tell us about yourself that I didn't already mention? So are you up for the challenge?
Speaker 2Um sure.
Speaker 3All right, and three, two, one go.
Speaker 2So, to start off, I'm a great guitar player. Well, I'm not great. I love playing guitar. I just started Saxophone and I am a professional video gamer. Yesterday there was a tournament and I won like $5 in virtual currency by playing.
Speaker 3Wow, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2So when I did that, then what else? I love swimming, I love fishing. When I went to Louisiana to do that sandwich chair thing, I caught like five fish.
Speaker 3Nice.
Speaker 2I love swimming as well. I can swim pretty fast and yeah.
Speaker 3Awesome, that was.
Speaker 2That's what I do in my free time.
Speaker 3Great, what kind of fish were you?
Speaker 2catching out there. So where they had us it was on a farm with, and when we had a little cottage, you walk out of the cottage, you have a giant lake in front of you. So we didn't really know what fish were in that lake. So I just casted my rod out there with all bait one of the big ones and I caught bass.
Speaker 3Wow.
Speaker 2So yeah, I caught from one pounders to three pounders. It was just fish, fish, fish fish.
Speaker 1That sounds awesome.
Speaker 3I used to go fishing a lot as a kid, but gosh, I don't get out there as much anymore. I need to take the kids. The kids have never been.
Speaker 1His dad keeps saying that we're going to go canoeing once. Yeah.
Speaker 3My dad liked to get out there and had us out there backpacking and fishing as kids and, gosh, as adults. We just need to get back out there, get back out to our roots. But cool man, tell me about, before we get to the Spy Kids stuff, this big foot movie that's coming out.
Speaker 2So I haven't read the script yet. I was planning on doing that in a few days because I'm going in April, but I think it's about me befriending a big foot in general, but I don't really know yet.
Speaker 3Okay, do you know what it's called?
Speaker 2It's called. Who Was he?
Speaker 3Okay, we will keep an eye and ear out for that. That sounds exciting. I am a big mystery fan and I love the mysteries of Sasquatches and all the aliens and time travel and I'm in all that stuff All right. So was Spy Kids like your first big project?
Speaker 2Yeah, I did a few commercials and maybe background roles and TV shows. But the second I heard the news when I booked Spy Kids and like oh my God, oh my God.
Speaker 3Had you seen the other Spy Kids movies before you auditioned?
Speaker 2So after I did the call back, the second, I got off. I binge watched all four. So yeah, I watched it, and that was before I even booked it. The day I booked it. I watched them four more times and again on the plane, but yeah.
Speaker 3What did you do when you found out? You booked it.
Speaker 2So I just got out of school. So I got out, I look at my phone, I get a call and I open the call. It just said my dad. But there's eight other people in the call and I see my managers, my agents and they're all on that call and my dad goes three, two, one and they say congratulations and I'm like what happened? And they're like you booked Spy Kids. I fell over and they started crying happy tears.
Speaker 3That is awesome.
Speaker 2And then my mom, and that's the perfect timing. My mom pulls up and she's like Conor, are you okay? I love Mike, yeah.
Speaker 3Did she know?
Speaker 2She did, but she thought that we were going to celebrate it at home and I, she thought I didn't know yet. So she just sees me falling over on the sidewalk crying my eyes out and I'm like no, I just, un-dad, I booked it, did you not know? And she's like oh, I did, and I'm like you did. So then why are you confused? I thought you planned this. I thought I saw your name on the call too. She's like no wait, there was a call.
Speaker 3Dad jumped the gun. Yeah, he swooped the announcement. And really, how did you find out?
Spy Kids Armageddon Filming Experience
Speaker 1So I came back from. So every day after school I go to my grandma's house and that day I got checked out of school to sing the Star Spangled Banner at your work. And so I, my dad and my mom were like, everly, we have a video to show you. And I showed. And I was like to my dad and mom, I was like, is it of me singing the Star Spangled Banner? And my dad was like no. And so, like they were getting ready and my brother was sitting on the couch, he was just learning to read. So he was sitting on the couch, we all gathered on the couch and then my dad had put together this whole like video. It said like it had all like the other clips from the other Spy Kids movies in it. And it said like Everly, grace Carganilla.
Speaker 1And then there was more commotion going on in the video. And then he said you, and then it came all on. And then my brother was just like you booked. And then I read it and it said Spy Kids 5. And I started screaming and jumping on the. I was right over there on the couch. I started screaming, I was crying happy tears, like you. I was like, oh my gosh, I was like so amazed I was, I couldn't, I just couldn't Believe it.
Speaker 3Your parents are in grave danger.
Speaker 1But what can I do? Ta해주 Jurde ON HEALTH To Be Continued, beore FOR word. Bertha, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Congratulations, you're the best child here in Beverly. Oh my gosh. Ahhhh, oh my gosh, I am happy to be here right here now. I'm gonna take your class for a week. You're gonna be happy Everly, you're going to Texas, to New York, to Texas.
Speaker 3Congratulations to you both. Thank you. What was the filming process like? Were you local?
Speaker 1No, no, we were in Austin, Texas. Yeah, so very far.
Speaker 3How long did it take?
Speaker 1About 3 months.
Speaker 2Call me crazy, but I have the exact date. I'm pretty sure she flew in a day before me, may 30th. I flew in May 31st. I landed at 3.54pm. Wow, you have a good memory.
Speaker 3We started shooting June 1st at approximately.
Speaker 2My call time was 9.30pm. Hers was as well, if I remember correctly. We got there at about 9.30pm. We got there at about 9.30pm Because we couldn't find the driver. Oh yes, and we got there.
Speaker 1We didn't do anything.
Speaker 2We did a little bit of fitting school and a bunch of tour and the day we ended it was in the safe house during the training regiment after we got our spy suits and she wrapped at. Approximately that was the last day. Oh yeah, the training we got there at about 9.30pm, the last day.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, the training.
Speaker 2Yeah she. Her rap was 8.55. Mine was 9.05.
Speaker 3What was the date of the rap?
Speaker 2August 27th.
Speaker 3End of August. So you started at the end of May and you wrapped at the end of August. June, july, august yeah, so that's three months. What was your favorite part of the shoot? I mean, you guys got to do a whole bunch of different things.
Speaker 3If anybody out there is listening hasn't seen the movie, it's on Netflix. You got to check out these two, everly and Connor, in Spy Kids Armageddon. They got to ride in boats, fly in jets and do all walk on the ceiling, all kinds of stuff. But it doesn't have to be one thing. But what were your favorite parts? I guess?
Speaker 2of the production, my favorite when Billy.
Speaker 3He's the bad guy, well, the villain, he's not really a villain, I mean he's not even bad.
Speaker 1He's the hero of his own story. He has like.
Speaker 2Somehow he always ends up being a villain and everything is active. Some how.
Speaker 3What's the?
Speaker 1So, billy Magnussen, billy Magnussen, that's right.
Speaker 3He plays the king in the Spy Kids Armageddon, and so what was your favorite part about that?
Speaker 2So in our final scene that I get the one hit halfway through shooting, they gave us a seesaw that was spinning and going up and down like this and we had to do the major fight scene on that. So there were fans blowing everywhere, we were spinning, Wow, and we were going up and down and we had to do the spear fight. That's the final With like 10 pounds, If you haven't seen it, this final fight scene.
Speaker 3They're like on a platform on a river of lava and they're dueling it out. Did you do a lot of your own stunts?
Speaker 2Not any of the falls.
Speaker 1You were on wires right, you did a backflip.
Speaker 2You were on wires too.
Speaker 3What kind of stuff did you do on wires?
Speaker 1So, basically, I just I don't want to be a spoiler for those who haven't seen it yet, but we go into a video game and I'm a superhero who has like wings. So basically I'm flying around blasting magic at one of the king's goons the heck night. So I really liked doing that part. That was probably my favorite part. Um, yeah, I really liked that. There was another scene that I got to go on wires, but that one got caught. It was when I like jumped off the edge and I was like worth it. That part got cut Because I think they liked the peaceful version better.
Speaker 2Were you just walk off? Yeah, Did you do the fall, or was it no?
Speaker 1it was no, that was a fully scrapped you guys had kids done doubles.
Speaker 2Yeah, so funny story. The JJ the head stunt coordinator. He was an awesome guy. Did he do Boba Fetter Mandalorian?
Speaker 1He did, I think Mandalorian, no I know the second.
Speaker 2I have his name and I have his name on my phone. He did Mandalorian JJ did Boba Fett book of Boba Fett, the series.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he also did. We can be heroes. He played Shark Boy. Oh, that's right, yeah.
Speaker 2I remember that. Yeah, so JJ, his son was my side double.
Speaker 3Oh nice.
Speaker 1And then I think it was his son was also mine, a different. Yeah this different, younger.
Speaker 3Yeah, so the stunt coordinators kids were your stunt.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Hmm, very cool. Let's talk about the people you got to meet. Let's talk about first working with Robert Rodriguez.
Speaker 2My gosh, he's the nicest guy ever.
Speaker 1We went to a house. Oh, he is a pizza oven. It's literally a castle. He has a pizza oven, a gym. He calls it a torture room. He's like a, his four secret doorways yes, the secret doorways. He's a pool. It's humongous. He even has a water slide. It's crazy.
Speaker 2And when you go into, the key is to waterfalls.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, yeah sounds like his house is an amusement park.
Speaker 1Hey, yeah, but like it's like literally a castle, like he has like a wall of books and then he like pulls one book and then the wall Rotates and it turns into like a door to the gym. It's awesome, amazing.
Speaker 3But what was it like working with him? How was he as a director? He's a wonder, he's just nice.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was not even a competition.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was by far the most surreal person on set. Yeah, sorry everyone, but he, he takes the cake.
Speaker 3Well, I mean, we're not comparing how cool people are, but one really cool thing that I loved about the way he Made the movie was the people around him. He wanted to make the movie with his kids.
Speaker 1Yeah, rhiannon is his daughter. She is an amazing artist. She designed like all the robots. She designed our suits. I think she designed everything. Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3His daughter, rhiannon, did a bunch of the art. His son, racer, was like a Rogue, did the music right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he really wanted to make the creation of the movie like a family affair and he was very he, very much. I was impressed with how much he included us on everything and he just made it seem, like you know, a really great experience for you guys and he made it seem like everyone is needed at all times.
Speaker 1Absolutely even though sometimes we weren't more awesome people that we got to work with where Gina, roger, you guys and Zachary Levi. They were amazing. Gina is just like a ray of sunshine. She brings. She brings like happiness to everybody. She like she's funny, she's. I Honestly I looked up to her when I was filming because she's like a professional. She's done way more things than I have and she knows she knows how to get in character, didn't you?
Speaker 2play young Gina or something I did. Yeah, like way back when. Yeah, way, way, way back.
Speaker 3I read.
Speaker 2I still have um the third to last day. Zach was there. I wasn't shooting but I ran to set. I had fittings that day and I got his book, if I only came in the mail. Oh yeah and I ran to him and I was lucky that he wasn't shooting, or else I would have gone in trouble. But I ran to him and he said, sign it, sign it.
Speaker 3Yeah, so what was it like working with Zachary Levi?
Speaker 2He was also amazing very inspirational Funny he would play music in between set. Oh my goodness, yeah, you just take his boombox and go oh baby, get big, it big yeah.
Speaker 3And we mentioned Billy Magnuson a little bit earlier, but he was Also really cool. I didn't get to, I wasn't on set much when he was there. What was it like? We're being on set with him.
Speaker 2Oh, my goodness, oh wow, he was just.
Speaker 1Whoa wait, he was amazing. Yeah, he's like he plays the view, but he's. He's, he plays the villain, but he's so nice in real life. He's like I don't know how to explain it, he's just.
Speaker 2Incredible. Also, just talking to him, it's a real like he's so different than everybody else and it's just awesome to work with him and I just can't really describe it.
Memories of Making Movies in Austin
Speaker 3He's just so cool, oh yeah tell me about the locations where you guys filmed, where we filmed at roberts original like place where he has Everything all designed out and everything ready, trouble maker studios and then atx wasn't really called that atx yeah.
Speaker 2I don't, I. That's the only thing I can't remember.
Speaker 3Yeah, it was like austin.
Speaker 1Austin texas. That's probably what it stood for. Yeah, probably. Yeah, it's awesome, texas, I think it was atx studios.
Speaker 2Yeah. Um you were that's where all the high score stuff was kind of split the time between there and trouble maker studios, which is roberts.
Speaker 1Yeah, trouble maker was all like the house scenes, like, for example, the first scene that we shot. I still remember the first scene that we shot was us sneaking down the hallway.
Speaker 2Oh my goodness my hands were white. They were so pale because the the walls. It was literally just made. I saw the market. That was probably the worst experience of my life. I saw our house get wrecked. Seriously, yeah, it was. It was a fresh house. Some walls weren't even there, but the walls that were there I had to like if you, if you watch the movie. I had to Hold on to the wall and it was. It was just newly painted and sanded, so my hands were completely pale.
Speaker 3Yeah, it was interesting. So there was an actual house that we spent some time in. Oh yeah, but a lot of the scenes were actually built on a soundstage to look like they were in that house. Like you mentioned, the hallway sneaking down the hallway, that's all in a stage and they did a really good job of mimicking the house.
Speaker 2They only had the house for two days, the actual house and I remember one of the days. We were supposed to the opening scene of the movie. After I opened the lock thing, my Zach comes in. That scene was supposed to be an all day shoot because it was so long, but we ended up somehow getting it all in 30 minutes because, that's all we could do, because it was a glass house mainly. It was a mainly glass and there was lightning the day.
Speaker 2Right, oh, that's right, and there was lightning and it was like that you could see it hit the pool, I know and it was like, okay, no, we're shooting with those giant generators that are pulling all of our lives at risk. So they stopped and that was very sad because I really wanted to do that scene. Yeah we ended up getting it done, but I think they cut half of it.
Speaker 3Yeah, that that house was pretty amazing there and I tell people the garage scene when the bad guys are coming in the garage and you guys drive out, that's that's the actual garage of that house and it has a turntable a lazy susan, oh my gosh. In the garage that turns the cars around, oh my gosh. So the person that owns that house actually has that in their garage. That that was in a set.
Speaker 1Okay, but okay, they also had a giant slide.
Speaker 2Do they have this slide?
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2It wasn't connected to the slide across. Okay, they had the slide. It was much bigger though.
Speaker 1Okay, when I'm grown up. Yeah, sorry, I'm moving to texas and buying that house. I can't that's.
Speaker 2I would just build a slide. She look right over there.
Speaker 3You can just like yeah just build a slide in any house. Yeah, put a turntable in your garage wherever you want to live.
Speaker 1Yeah, dad, can I install a slide? Yeah, and just like have it right, come right to the table. Okay, girl, so it's a much easier way to get to the living room, can I?
Speaker 3Not right now.
Speaker 1Why not?
Speaker 3revisit that. Okay, tell me about making movies was a lot of times people when I tell them my, my daughters and actress she makes movies. The first question is does she like it? And I'm like.
Speaker 1Why would she be doing it?
Speaker 3like forcing you to do it or something, but you have to do this.
Speaker 2What?
Speaker 3is it like for? Any of us in the world that's listening, that ever wondered what it's like being a movie star?
Speaker 2Why hate work, not us not?
Speaker 1work is honestly the base of my heart, like I love it. So, like my heart is, like the earth, I have a core, a mantle in a crust, what? There's many more layers than just three the course acting, and then the other layers, family and the other layers, friends and the others, piano and the others, pets, and so on. So far, you see.
Speaker 3What's your favorite thing about making movies?
Speaker 1You will. I love to play pretend with my crazy little brother. We met him on the fifth podcast, I believe it was no he. I love to play pretend with him. And Well, I guess acting is basically playing pretend like you can be someone who you actually aren't and you can be in their lives for a certain amount of time, which I really like. I like Just the idea you get to be people.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's not my favorite, though. My favorite part is just the experience because, like, when I look back at it, is it I fit like genres of my life into songs, so like I have like Christmas twenty twenty two as like I don't know, but like I keep it in genres like that? I couldn't do that for summer of twenty twenty two when we shot. I can't do that for any set. Really, just something you have to look back at, just the memories that you make there.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's like a chapter of your life really.
Speaker 2I have like forty five core memories the most I've ever had a place that's great I tried ramen for the first time in Austin.
Acting, Emotions, and Filming Challenges
Speaker 1Oh nice, I tried. No, I got this incredible bulldog I showed you earlier, terrence, in Austin. He is the biggest memory from Austin. My call time was so late that day it was eleven. So my mom and I went out to the mall and we did this and this and that and that Mom and girl day for at least a few hours. And then I went to the store and I got really attached to this bulldog in a toy store and my mom was like, okay, well, come back later, I'm gonna go call you.
Speaker 1So we went shopping and then she said you want to say goodbye to your dog friend? And I was like, yeah, so I went into the store and I said bye and I started crying because I had already gotten so attached to him. I started crying and my mom was like, oh sweetie, well, how much is he? And I was like about sixteen dollars and she was like, okay, well, okay, well, let's Fine. So she got him off the shelf and then we paid for him and now he I sleep with him literally every night. There's not a night that goes by.
Speaker 2I mean he's not in my arms and the crazy thing is, the day after that I went to the same store and you saw his family.
Speaker 1I saw all of the family.
Speaker 2I told you this earlier. Yeah, but I got that Big body bear with the tiny little head now I know what you're talking about. Yeah, it was at the same store and it was the last one because they sell out so quick.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, it was also like five dollars, like fifteen dollars, yeah okay, so your favorite parts of making movies are playing pretend, making great memories and getting stuffed animals.
Speaker 1No, no, but I mean like basically terror, yeah, but like Terrence is like a memory. He's like the most cherished memory that I have from.
Speaker 2Terrence is the best we would have died without him, I would have one time we ate his toe. Oh, it was very.
Speaker 3It was not very tasty what is the what is the hardest? Part of making a movie.
Speaker 1Well, probably like if you have a hardest part, hardest part emotional scenes when you have to cry or something.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1I was in the after party. I was in the after party, I had to cry and then I'm doing a movie soon. The company is it's I. There's a lot of emotional scenes in that movie. I don't know how I'm gonna survive, but I'm gonna try. I have to. Every time I do something bad or like mess up, I grab like a journal and I'm like remember this moment. How are you feeling?
Speaker 3It's interesting that you say that, because I think as an actor, it's very it's something you have to learn, that is, to be very aware of your feelings throughout regular life, when you're not working, and realize, when you're having emotions, that really kind of. You need to bookmark it and kind of remember how that feels and then you can use that later. What about, like shooting conditions?
Speaker 2what are the hardest? Yeah, emotional, part same. So after I left, whenever I had not dishing right, had to do a sad scene I would want, right when I got back I was, I missed it's everyone so much that they would show me pictures of like Robert or someone random from set and I would start crying and then they would start the scene and great way in acting.
Speaker 3We call that trigger trigger what I do for acting.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2I wasn't really crying, I just wanted to be done.
Speaker 1I felt like I feel like I'm about to start crying right now. So in our audition for spy kids one of the scenes was the safe house scene and in my audition I was crying because I didn't know what would do. I had to cry. So my mom was like there's, there's, no way to get me crying, like I can't start crying on queue without like a trigger. So my mom was like she tried out all sorts of different stuff but the one they got me was before the perfect one, she said. She said Everly, we've had fun, haven't we? And then I was like stop.
Speaker 3So that's the emotional difficulty, but you can just use a tear stick.
Speaker 2That's almost the same they did.
Speaker 3They heard, though what's a tear stick?
Speaker 2yeah, so it's like a stick of like. It's like Clear lipstick that's made out of mint, so you put it below your eyes and it just starts to burn and then you start to cry oh, that's some. I've never seen those before that's.
Speaker 3That's very interesting tricks of the trade tricks honestly you guys had some really awesome scenes outdoors for spy kids, but it was Warm stop right there, stop traumatizing the third day of shooting day.
Speaker 1we were shooting. We were shooting the Safe house scene when we got caught. I don't know if it was safe, how, when the rock was being lowered, or if it was part of the go kart scene, but we went inside the tent and they had those like two air conditioners and we just stuck our face in them. Oh, my goodness, yeah, they had a little to.
Speaker 2yeah, I would just like take it out of the tent and walk out with it. Yeah, yeah, I could see again, but yeah it was it was steaming hot, like we were in. The suits were made out of a really, really, really thick rubber, so we were in a hundred and six degree weather, drowsed in warm plus 20 degrees more.
Speaker 1Yeah so that was humid. So, yeah, that was hard, that was really hard.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think the humidity was a major part.
Speaker 3I wasn't there for it, but I heard it was also really hot when you were filming the go kart scenes when you're driving.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was hot, but we weren't hot but not as hot just because we weren't in the suits. We were in casual.
Speaker 1Yeah, we were, yeah, we were still wearing jackets.
Speaker 2We were wearing jackets and we were wearing jeans. Yeah, and it was a hundred and the go kart. They didn't store it in shade, yeah, so it was like steaming burning metal and you were in and we were in jeans. Burning metal and jeans don't go together.
Speaker 3Did you get to meet anyone on set that wasn't in the movie?
Speaker 1Oh yes, why am I just remembering this? So we were at the OSS. We were at the OSS on Saturdays. Yeah we shut down the Saturday Farmers Market.
Speaker 2I felt so bad. You could see the people. You could see the people trying to go there.
Speaker 1So we were at the OSS and then Robert was like we have a visitor coming and we were like who is it? And then it was Alexa, the previous spy kid. She played Carmen and the original other spy kid and I was like, oh my gosh, she's all grown up, she has, she's, she's no longer a spy kid, she's just spy adult.
Speaker 3Spy grown ups.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was cool.
Speaker 3did you guys get to hang out with her?
Speaker 1She just stopped by she watched some of our scenes and then she had to go because her kids were real little.
Speaker 2She was like wait a minute, robert, why didn't you make mine this cool? Then I hid behind the super ducky.
Speaker 1You didn't want to get in trouble. You're like you can't see me.
Speaker 3You guys got to play with a lot of cool gadgets. What was your favorite gadget?
Speaker 1Bronson.
Speaker 2I had like the hand thing. Oh yeah, yeah, because I had like a really cool finisher, like one of those video game finishers, like I took, I threw one of the bad guys onto the thing and then I took the other and I threw one of the emotion balls of sleepiness. Then I took the hand glove, I threw it on the face and I think I like threw him onto it and then I said ready for the thing to activate and it said put them down.
Speaker 1I remember you did something like that in the movie you put the claw on, I put the claw on yeah, and then you rammed into the other guy's face.
Speaker 2Yeah, I rammed into the guy's face and you flew down.
Speaker 1Anyways, my favorite was Bronson, a robotic crab. He pulls his arm off to help me. He's the best.
Speaker 3So was he like a remote control thing on set when you were filming?
Speaker 1No, no they were, it was just like so there was one like a disc, one like the actual crab, and then one with no other arm.
Speaker 2So they just had like three One with no arms one with eight arms and one with seven arms.
Speaker 1So we had like the different Bronsons. I actually have a few pictures on my phone from the last day of set. They had like a case and it said it had his name engraved. It said Bronson and I was like I thought of that name. I can't believe it but like, oh, did you really? Yeah, I did.
Speaker 2Well, technically, Robert, robert like a cool Easter egg because I have an electric guitar that me and Robert went to go pick out and in the troublemaker I don't know if his logo has always been like that, but in the troublemaker studios logo for the Spiky 5 movie if you look really closely you'll see him playing my guitar upside down.
Speaker 3Wow, very cool.
Speaker 2It's a blue guitar. It's a blue semi hollow body guitar. Wow, yes, if you want to check.
Speaker 3Yeah, well, we'll definitely share that here on the video. What was your watching the movie? What was your favorite? What is your favorite part? Which scene is your favorite when you watch the?
Speaker 1movie. There's so many like they're all so good. I can't answer that that's way too hard. Well, I mean probably like when we jump into the laundry room and Zach just walks by not noticing. Our legs are clean, sticking up. But then I also liked the fight with Billy, gina and Zach on the table. Oh yeah, the floor was so confusing.
Speaker 2One of my favorite scenes is when Gina turned into Billy. Oh yes, that was confusing. Oh no, what is she saying?
Speaker 3Alright, well, not specifically speaking to the movie Spy Kids Armageddon, but as far as being an actor. What is your favorite part about being an actor?
Speaker 1Well, I really like getting the opportunity to work with different people.
Speaker 3What about you, connor?
Speaker 2Traveling, just simply Traveling. For me, whenever I book something and they're like, and my parents are like oh, it's in LA, I'm like For a few commercials. I went to Nevada for my Sinclair audition, for my Sinclair commercial. I don't know if you guys have watched it. That was in the middle of nowhere, but yeah.
Speaker 1Oh, same with me. I filmed a Lays commercial for Lays Poppables. I had to go to LangCaster Wait.
Speaker 2I don't know my geography. Sorry, that's not in the US, is it no?
Speaker 1it's like LangCaster is in the US, but it's so far and it's so hot. From here it's so like a million miles away and it was so hot In the middle of when they were setting up shots. I was like I need a break. I'm overheating. I have to go in the trailer.
Speaker 3It's only about an hour and a half north of Los Angeles, but it is in the desert. So yeah, it was really hot, that day it was like a four hour drive to Las Vegas Nevada thing.
Speaker 2They had us in a very nice hotel, though I will give them that they had a beautiful swatch store where they actually had kid sizes. So there was this giant wall of just kids watches.
Speaker 3Wow.
Speaker 2And I'm like, oh, I was like eight, so I picked the silliest looking one. I kind of regret it, but it's a beautiful watch, so I'm not angry.
Speaker 3So meeting new people, working with new people, traveling it all sounds very exciting. What advice would you give to any kids out there that would maybe like to become an actor?
Speaker 1Be yourself, but be someone else. Yeah, like you can be yourself.
Speaker 3Be both.
Speaker 1Be yourself like. Don't change the way you talk or anything. Don't try to be better than who you are.
Speaker 2Don't try to Can I add to that? Yeah, so basically what you're saying is don't change your personality and your attitude on how you do stuff, because when you do the thing, you just work. When you put your own twist on stuff, you get better results.
Speaker 3Exactly, you bring yourself to the character.
Speaker 2Yes, not the character to you.
Speaker 3I see.
Speaker 2My favorite part about acting as well in general is just being yourself and everyone being okay with it. And my advice to other people that are trying to act get an agent, try to get a manager, and if you have trouble memorizing while you're trying to memorize, throw a ball. Oh, throw a ball. Or catch or something. Just have both parts of your brain moving. Your brain will get used to saying those words because it's matched with emotion and then you slowly start to stop doing that motion and then you learn it.
Speaker 3I hadn't heard that method before.
Speaker 2Yes, so you just throw something while you're reading and then your brain memorizes the motion and it auto says the words that go with it.
Speaker 3It's very weird, Very scientific Well thank you both for joining us here in the cove.
Speaker 2Is there any?
Speaker 3final thoughts before we let you go.
Speaker 2It was fun.
Speaker 1I really appreciate, or I'm really grateful to be taking my time on this president today to do this and help do this podcast. And yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 3Well, I am very grateful for you both for spending time with me and sharing your experiences with the Carganilla Online Friday Entertainment community.
Speaker 2That is a very, very long name.
Speaker 1It's called cove for short, cove pod.
Speaker 3Thank you for having us.
Speaker 2Bye, bye.
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