Inside the Set of “The Real O’Neals”

Hey guys, Audrey here for Young Hollywood, about to get some real talk from the stars of The Real O'Neals inside their TV home. Let's check it out.

Noah Galvin hanging out with me now. You might know him as Kenny. Kenny, who dance fights.

Yeah, is that your dance fight?

Yeah, it was my dance fight. That was not a dance.

Well, thanks so much for letting us hang out on your TV home.

Welcome to our second floor.

Thank you. It has the stairs to nowhere, I see.

Got to go. We got to go. We got places to be. And then we just come down here and we craft. It's like a bomb shelter. Clearly, we have places to be. A lot of times BB gets very lazy when she comes down the stairs and often times she'll just be here. BB, we can still see you.

The very funny, very cheerleadery today. BB Wood. I know her as Shannon.

Hi, do you do that again? Hi, it's BB Wood, you guys.

I love it. Do you have your own cheer?

I'm not very good at it.

Really? I saw you doing like a little something or other.

Yeah, I don't know what that was. It was just sort of a. Here, I'll pass it over to you.

Okay, now pass it over to me. There we go. Oh, when we found a dead body. And we found a

We found a BB sleeping.

But this is Shannon's room. Shannon, who you play on The Real O'Neals, does not seem quite like a cheerleader type.

Definitely not. Um, but she has a plan to sort of go undercover and write a story about the cheerleaders. I think they're slowly going to be phasing out the pink because Shannon is clearly not this girl anymore. I think Shannon's a little more devious.

Exactly. Than having an all-pink room.

Exactly. I think this is part of her, part of the facade.

If you could go undercover as anything, what would you want to go undercover as?

Probably like a secret spy. But, I mean, that's like double undercoverness, isn't it?

It is. Yeah. But you're an actor, so it might be easier for you.

Yeah, I'll just play a secret spy on television.

There you go. So the thing about being on a set is that you have professional set up people, and they do a really good job.

Yes. They do. They do an amazing job. Because there are so many bodies and so many able bodies, they're able to build a cafeteria out of like nothing in a matter of days.

A little mini-city.

Yeah, a little mini-city.

This is Jimmy's room. I got Matt Shively sitting down with me. Thanks for. You said my last name right.

I will, I checked. I checked. I didn't want. I that's exactly what I asked. I'm glad I checked. Yes.

You can obviously see the sports memorabilia, some Bears stuff, some Cubs stuff. A little Chicago themed. You play Jimmy?

I do.

Jimmy, the I don't want to call him the dumb jock, because that that seems too mean.

Well, this is the thing, he's not even that jocky. He's he's not really that smart, though. He's dim. He's very dim, but he's also very sensitive. And I I've always said that he's not book smart, but he is emotionally smart.

Oh look, it's Mary and the back. It's Mother Mary. It's Mother Mary from the pilot. All right, where are we now? This is Kenny's room. Now, here's the thing. Whenever I'm on a set where there's a tiny little

This is my this is my favorite cabinet. Yeah. I've never actually had time to go through all of them, but some of my favorites are the the Gay Iwo Jima.

There's something really groundbreaking about this show, putting a young gay character who comes out and we're kind of watching this journey. So just tell me what that has been like. How special has that been for you?

It's very special. It's a really, really cool thing that I'm getting to do. I've said it a thousand times before, but it was important to me that a gay kid play this character, because it's not just about a gay person. It's about a gay kid going through the process of coming out. It's not so much the before of the coming out. You know, of course, there was like the internal struggle and the emotional struggle and the like, am I gay, am I not. And I love that our show is not about that. It's just the journey of any teenager who he just happens to be gay.

Right. I really want to steal that. She'll never know. Now, I think it's worth noting like you guys are actually on two sets, right?

That's true. We're on two full stages.

Oh my gosh, it's like almost natural light.

Oh yeah. And it's like sort of winter right now. We're filming we just filmed a Christmas episode. So welcome to the first floor of our house.

Welcome to your Chicago winter in Burbank.

That's right. This is a cool house. I mean, you can't get you can't get real estate like this. Lots, lots, lots and lots of Christian trinkets. This is my favorite. It's like a Pope Francis little vanity. I love it. I think it's like the jenkiest little thing in the world. I think that's the best. That's the best part. You're not supposed to eat anything off this stuff. Look, no. Oh no. His Holiness Pope Francis. I'm not supposed to eat off his face. This is my real favorite thing. Oh, what are we doing here with the family photo? Yep. Shot from a far. Oh yes. But what's even weirder, if you look at um this one, this one, this one, and that one. So these are all the same people. But it's all on the same day. And it happened like our first day of rehearsals for filming our first season. My clearly his face says, we don't know who we're getting picked up. We also just met each other.

What's your face saying right here?

Oh dear, I'm terrified. I've never acted on camera before. Let's see how this goes, you know.

Well, everybody on this cast is just so funny. Do you feel like you have to bring your comedy A-game whenever you step on to work?

Completely. Completely. But also, the lovely thing about working with these actors is that we push each other. I've never been so blessed. It's crazy.

#Blessed.

#Blessed. With a prayer. Yeah, exactly. And the and the raised hands. Yeah. Um, we all love each other so much. And so it's really nice to come to work. And you know, we had an eight-month break. So it was kind of nerve-wracking coming back and being like, you know, is everything going to be the same? It was as if we never left. It was perfect.

Wow.

We all get along really, really well. We're going to Disneyland tomorrow. And you know, we all go over to Martha's house and swim and have fun and barbecue. Yeah. I mean, all of us just we have such a good time. And last but not least, to bring you full circle, the staircase to nowhere, but in reality.

Right.

This is the other half of the staircase to nowhere. So we have just the window seat situation, Jimmy's door, our parents' door and then nothing else. Except now we don't have to like crouch here. You know. Thanks for coming to my house.

So I just I'll see myself out.

Yeah. Please. Please. Thank you. It's been lovely having you.

Bye. Have a good day.