"Awkward" Set Tour with Ashley Rickards and Co-Stars

"Awkward" Set Tour with Ashley Rickards and Co-Stars
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YH returns to the set of MTV's hit show "Awkward" for a personal tour around the faux high school thanks to stars Ashley Rickards, Jillian Rose Reed, Molly Tarlov, Beau Mirchoff, Brett Davern, and Greer Grammer! The cast also shows off some of their hidden talents, plus they reveal what they would do differently if they went back to high school and which characters on the show they want to see hook up!
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Hey guys, Nikki Novac here for Young Hollywood. I'm on the set of MTV's Awkward. Come on.
Oh, there you go. This is how we sit. This is how we sit every day.
Do you put yours together on purpose?
Absolutely. Okay. They never get put together, but we move them every. They're trying to make us branch out, but we won't do it. Do you know how much lip gloss has been applied at this mirror in this fake mirror that comes out and the camera comes through it and we have to pretend to know what we're
There's magic happening behind the scenes.
I know. I can hear people behind the office. Here's Beau Mirchoff's chair next to Jimmy's cart, sound cart. Jimmy, our sound, our soundman and Beau Mirchoff sit here all day long and play that guitar.
What is this? What's the big board?
It's actually a little board. This is where, so all the mics have number, are numbered. No, they don't have them on or maybe they do, I don't know. They too speaks first. Yeah. So that they know where to when to put up the volume of your mic. So that when we want to say mean things about each other, they can turn us down.
Yeah, right.
Or if they really want to hear you in the bathroom, they turn it up. They turn it way up. Yeah. And then they blast it through the speakers. Everything in Tamara's room that you guys can't really see is cheetah print, purple cheetah print. And these are somebody's sides. Don't read that. Spoiler alert. Oops, wrong side.
Okay, so what's going on behind me here? Is this sort of like where everybody's always?
This is where everyone tweets from. So this is really boring in here. This is the cast's um this is our medic, but he only has Advil so don't get excited. Oh. We change the posters in this hallway all the time depending on what's going on. So if there's like a Valentine's Day dance or if there's some Oh, I'm sorry, were you busy playing your guitar? If any scene that's in the quad is going to take forever to shoot. 'Cause these these types of things are where every cast member is here. And they're my favorite days on set because it is, it's like a little reunion and everybody's together. It's probably partially why it takes so long because we're all screwing around and not listening and like just having fun.
Does this look like a found footage movie right now?
Well, some of it, some of it has looked like a horror movie for sure. For sure. Yeah.
So cool. Wait a minute. Awkward goes four. Oh my gosh. Oh my god. What would be your ideal number of seasons for the show?
12.
Two.
Uh, I think we're here as long as they want us. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Um, five would be appropriate because we end the season spring break, if it spring break and it would be nice to be a nice way to wrap up the show at the end of high school after five. Because then after five. Right.
What would be your real life talent if you had to do a talent show and you can't pick acting?
Acting would be so awkward in a in a talent show or approaching anyway to go up and do some like monologue. But um, I don't know. Boring. I guess I'd just sing or dance. Probably do.
That's not boring. You could do your dirty dancing thing.
I could do my dirty dancing thing.
What would be your hidden talent?
Burping. On cue.
Can you do it on cue?
No. I haven't had anything bubbly today. I flip my eyelids. Can you do that?
That creeps me out.
I've been doing this since middle school. I don't know why I just thought about it. Oh my gosh. Damn it. Damn it. Woo. Wow. This has become honestly the awkward horror show.
This has onions, I ordered sauerkraut.
What?
Are you worried about your breath because of that ugly sweater and that Brogo from Pumps? The chances of you getting any tonight are as dead as the sow that brought wurst came from. Say.
Is there one thing that you got to live out on the show like a fantasy from high school you never got to live?
No. Everything that happens to Jenna is awkward, unfortunate, and then she conquers it. Okay. So I wouldn't wanna be in those situations anyway. We actually like really love when we get to work in the morning and we see our cheerleading outfits in our trailers, which are next to each other. I get so excited. Yeah. No.
If you actually could go back and relive the high school years, what would you do differently? If you could do something differently.
I wouldn't be such an idiot. Right. It's better that we lay all our cards out on the table and and communicate our feelings.
If you guys could put to get put any two people on the show together and have them end up together, who would it be?
I mean, definitely myself and Desi or Nicki. I should use character names. Jake and either Mrs. Hamilton or Val, the guidance counselor. I would love to see her with Luke. Selfishly because Evan's a ton of fun to have on set. I don't know who I would have Lissa end up with, but I would like
Probably Jake.
Probably Jake. No, I mean probably. We didn't really get to see them have a good relationship. Stay in the back and keep those props coming double time, Sadie. Or Jake and I are leaving.
So your friend just taught us the mail review dance that you did that episode the mail. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a tricky one. Yeah. We pulled that off, right, Brett? Do you still know it to get Do you think you could still do it in sync? In sync? Yeah.
Um, what do you think, Brett?
Well, there you have it. What are you getting shy now? One, two, three, four, huh? All right. That was fantastic.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Nikki Novac
Young Hollywood host
- Ashley Rickards
Cast member of Awkward
- Jillian Rose Reed
Cast member of Awkward
- Molly Tarlov
Cast member of Awkward
- Beau Mirchoff
Cast member of Awkward
- Brett Davern
Cast member of Awkward
- Greer Grammer
Cast member of Awkward
- Jimmy
Soundman on the set
- Jenna
Character on Awkward
- Tamara
Character on Awkward
- Desi
Character mentioned for a hookup
- Jake
Character on Awkward
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