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As categorizable as they seem, these kids arent stereotypes.
What kept her onboard all that time?
Also the fact that Id be playing a character where her sexuality is not a defining characteristic.
I was kind of like an Amy the first two years of high school.
(Is it the movies most winning line?
Or that I went to Yale.
I didnt go to college, so it was fun to get to pretend-do that.
There was a line, and a bouncer or something.
I wasnt on the list, obviously, so I snuck through a ravine to get in.
It was just so fun to be with all the older people.
I was completely sober, and I thought it was so fun.
When I actually started drinking at parties, I was like,This is horrible.
Reading the script, it was clear that hes such a good dude.
That desperation is charming, even when Jareds doing the absolutemostto get in everyones good graces.
He has secretly strong opinions about airplanes and musicals that wont be spoiled here.
He has some amateur dance experience, but nothing like the work that went into pulling the sequence off.
Growing up, he always made me bust a move whenever he thought it was appropriate.
So I know how to do little break-dancing moves.
And then I took home so many hair products.
I have a drawer full of purple shampoos, silk pillowcases, the works!
They asked, What would be the sexiest thing you think he could say?
(Scriptwriter Katie Silberman ultimately came up with the perfect hybrid answer:half Slytherin, half Ravenclaw.)
I was kind of similar to Tanner in high school, honestly.
I was just fucking mischievous, really couldnt stand academics.
I wasnt a dick like he is in the bathroom scene.
I was more into sports.
I did play soccer.
I was just kind of a troublemaker!
His best friend on set:Molly Gordon, amazing girl.
I got to carpool with her every day to work because our call times were kinda the same.
Molly really held me down for sure, besides Mason and Theo.
[The guys] had a couple slumber parties.
It was like high school again.
Olivia was like, You have to be meaner!
It just inspired me to want to actually do everything.
I was going through my, like, Oh my God, DiCaprios so hot!
phase and my mom was like, Yeah!
Hes not hot in it, but he is so talented and it blew my mind.
I fell in love with everything about movies after that.
Her character inGilbert Grapeis why I wanted to become an actress.
I was table hopping, I was clique hopping!
I was theatrical, but I wasnt a drama kid.
The murder-mystery party was really fun.
My cousin Sam was a dancer who was in Sleep No More for many years, Galvin says.
So I have seen Sleep No More 17 times.
I sort of took inspiration from the Sleep No More experience for Georges murder mystery.
One kid had what felt to me at the time like six different apartments.
I remember party hopping between these two apartments.
His parents would show up at one apartment and we would have to go to the next one.
Theres 50 kids, and we would trash it every time and we never got in trouble.
It seemed like the family was okay with it old New York City wealth very much on display.
Does she identify as queer?
She was so kind to me.
What does that mean?
She held my hand through this whole thing.
Ruesga didnt have Alfreds number saved, though, so she ignored the text.
I was like,Oh, shit.
I didnt know this was you.
Mikey screen-shotted the text and sent it to Allison Jones.
She was like, She seems a little eccentric.
Why dont you bring her in here tomorrow?
And it all worked out.
I think theres a word for it.
He has a big crush on Crockett Highs cool teacher, Ms. Fine.
In one scene, he subtly but deliberately unbraids his hair when she enters the room.
Instead,Booksmartlets the guy groom himself for a womans attention.
Im packing hair, Franco says of his inches.
So Ill do it.
The craziest party he went to in high school:I dont drink, so I was always driving.
Were hanging out, having a good time by the beer-pong table.
And we all turn around and were like, What?
And I figured,Oh, the cops are here.
Okay, well, lets just leave.The guys like, This ones for the ladies.
And then he turns the music back on and plays Make It Nasty by Tyga.
Later, a fight did break out at the party, Franco says.
