Did Wilmer hang out with you at all, because he was with you in a lot of scenes?

Quinn: Totally.

Tyler: Yeah, we hung out a lot, whenever it was a Saturday or whenever we were just off work, we’d all head to the –

Quinn: Oh, the Skybox.

Tyler: The Skybox, it was a place in the mall –

Quinn: There’s a giant TV screen, we used to watch when we were on TV.

Tyler: Yeah, it was a sport’s bar with an arcade in it, a great arcade, really big, we could go eat and then just hang out; we had a good time.

Did you guys see the movie last night?

Tyler & Quinn: Yeah.

What did you think of it?

Quinn: I think it turned out great.

Tyler: I think the editing was good; we did a really good job. It was good to see everything just come together, we worked hard, we were there for hours at night sometimes, and everything coming together I’m really happy with it.

Quinn: It was very rewarding to see all of our work put together after only seeing bits of it in the trailer and when we were doing ADR, so I think when we saw it all together we were all just like, wow, it turned out really good. I had been a little bit worried that it would look just too crazy, but I think it really did turn out great, and didn’t really come to -

How are you guys going to celebrate the holidays this year, do you have any travel plans?

Tyler: I’m going to head home for about three weeks, go back to New York, go back to the cold, the snow, get a little bit more of that, hang out with my family, and then come back to L.A. just to have a good time and probably work, I’ll do some other things, but right now I’m not focused on a career. I’m doing this because I love it. This isn’t just for – you know, okay, I’m doing this, I’m doing that, okay, we have to make sure I’m working here, it’s just because I love it, I’m just going with the flow of it.

Quinn: I live in New Jersey, so I’m going to stay in New Jersey, because I’m taking my vacation in California now, and pretty much go to visit my whole family and eat dinner.

What gifts would you like to get for the holidays?

Quinn: A lot of stuff. I’d like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

Tyler: You know, I’m at a point now where I can truthfully say I don’t really want anything, there’s nothing that I really want, everything that I’ve ever really wanted has happened. And I’m content, I’m full, I just want to go back home and hang out with my family, watch them get stuff and be happy.

So you’re cool with all socks and underwear?

Tyler: Oh yeah, socks, underwear, bring it on.

What gift will you be excited to be giving this year?

Tyler: I haven’t really started buying gifts yet, but I know there are certain things that everybody has wanted, like an iPod or a videogame, and I just love the fact of seeing them open it, and seeing it there, the one thing that they’ve been wanting all year, it’s right there. I think that’s one of the best feelings you can have.

Quinn: Because then they’re so happy and they’re like, ‘Oh, thank you,’ and you feel so good because it’s like you gave them what they wanted and they’re so happy.

What projects do you have lined up for next year?

Tyler: Wow, what new projects – well, there’s nothing really etched in stone, we’re looking at some things, but just here for the fun of it, just going with the flow.

Quinn: Same here.

Any problem coordinating the TV show with this film?

Tyler: There was no problem coordinating it, we finished in January, on the 25th I believe, and this started in February. There was no problem coordinating it. I was reading this the same time we were shooting Chris, and I was looking forward to it so much that it was like, ‘Okay, when is the season going to be done? I love you guys, I really do, but this is going to be fun, I know it.’ It’s like going to sleep the night before something really big happens, when you can’t sleep. I was really looking forward to meeting everybody, because I had no idea, I’d gone in with Quinn for the screen test,

Quinn: In California.

Tyler: But there were five other girls, I didn’t know who they were going to pick. So it went well.

Do you guys have school on the set?

Quinn: Yeah.

How did that work out, you’re all in different grades, right?

Quinn: The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble she’d help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us – well, I was, because I go to a public school.

Tyler: There was no problem with it, I think whenever you have kids together in a room doing school, you’re going to create your own little school without walls, it’s going to be classes, math, but I think the one thing about it is, everybody’s doing something different and you have one-on-one with that teacher of what you’re really doing, it’s not she has to move on quickly to the next thing. Or just to have a schedule, there’s no real schedule when you’re working on a movie with school, if you need some extra time on one thing you’ve got it.

What grades are you both in right now?

Quinn: I’m in sixth.

Tyler: I’m in ninth.

Has it gotten easier to play the young Chris Rock?

Tyler: You know it never was really hard. It was never hard to do that. And I think this character from whatever was hard made it easier. Everything that I do is pulling from me, there’s a goofy side of me, and then there’s a dork that I have, that’s just somewhere in there, and it’s easy just to pull from that, this made it easier, these two characters are similar, very similar, they’re both awkward, they don’t know what they’re really supposed to be doing here, and it did make it a lot easier to come back this season.

In the core group of actors, who was the jokester?

Quinn: I think everyone, I’m sorry, but everyone was always joking.

Tyler: We weren’t serious, we weren’t very professional actors – you can’t expect that from five kids together shooting this crazy movie, doing all these things. We were just having fun, messing up lines sometimes.

Quinn: So many times.

Tyler: Yeah, a lot of times, just having fun. It was free-flowing because it wasn’t a certain amount of time, like a series we have a week to get it done and it needs to be done now, we had two and a half months to shoot what, some 125 scenes, it wasn’t that hard.

Quinn: It’s not that many.

Tyler; I know, it’s not that bad for two and a half months.

Did you all read for the roles that you’re playing in the movie?

Quinn: I read for my role originally.

Tyler: You know at first when I read the script there was a mix up of the names, so they told me I was reading for Spencer. But I was like, wait a minute, I kind of like the Charlie character, but they were like, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, you’re supposed to be Charlie. I think there was something about him that just – he’s just glowing, he’s a warm person, he’s very optimistic, he can look at a disaster and say, ‘Well, at least I’m not dead.’

When you first get out of the room you all do what you really want to do – if you could just get away and do whatever you wanted to do, what would that be?

Quinn: Well, it’s a question, would I get in trouble?

It’s a fantasy, no.

Quinn: I’d go on a vacation with all my friends and spend a bunch of money, my parent’s money.

Where would you go?

Quinn: L.A. actually, I love L.A.

Tyler: If I was unaccompanied you’d all better watch out (everyone laughs) I would probably do the same thing, just hang out, just do stuff that I’ve always wanted to do, be sick half the time, hurt myself a couple of times doing some stupid stuff, but I’d hang out. A lot of the stuff that we did in the movie I would probably do, I’d eat everything possible, everything I couldn’t really eat, take a golf cart and just drive recklessly, try out everything in the store.

Coming from New York and New Jersey, how did you make it out to Hollywood?

Quinn: Well, my mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they were sort of boring, because I’ve seen them on tape, they always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair. But she saw that and I guess she really wanted to get me started in acting, because she knew that I had the interest that she had, only she wanted to get me started young. So she took me to some agents and I got accepted when I was really young, I was only three, and that’s where I started.

Tyler: The question ties into the movie actually, I just came out to L.A. for the fact that I wanted to get started and really push my career somewhere where I’d never gone. I didn’t come out for the auditioning process in L.A. I auditioned for the show in New York, they brought me out to L.A., we shot and that’s where I figured out that this was something that could really be a career, I could really do something from this. And it was out there that I realized that this movie was here and it was there and it was on the table and if I didn’t take it somebody else would, because it’s one of the greatest scripts I think I’ve seen in awhile. And that brought me out to L.A. and then that brought me to Utah, and brought me here, this movie really carried us.

 

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