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Talking Time Travel On Set with Cast of "Best Friends Whenever"

Talking Time Travel On Set with Cast of "Best Friends Whenever"

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YH heads to "where the science happens" on the set of Disney Channel's sci-fi series "Best Friends Whenever"! We catch up with the talented young cast, including Gus Kamp, Ricky Garcia, Lauren Taylor, Landry Bender, Matthew Royer, and Benjamin Royer to get an exclusive set tour and find out a little more about the show and the actors themselves! Find out where they would go if they could time travel in real life and what superpowers they'd love to have!

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Young Hollywood

I'm Oliver Trevena here with Young Hollywood on the set of Disney's new show Best Friends Whenever. I'm going to take you around the set and we're going to speak to the cast. Let's go.

Young Hollywood

This is Gus and Ricky who play Barry.

Ricky

Barry.

Gus

And Nowdo.

Ricky

Nowdo.

Gus

Nowdo.

Young Hollywood

What was your last name?

Ricky

Barry Eisenberg.

Gus

Mine's Montoya.

Young Hollywood

We got his last name today. With Landry and Lauren. How are you?

Landry

Good. How are you?

Young Hollywood

Sid and Shelby. Yes. Yeah. And this is your attic, your girls' room.

Landry

It is.

Young Hollywood

This is great. I wish I had a I was going to say I wish I had a girls' room like this when I was younger, but then I realized how that would sound. Benjamin. Matthew. Nope. Matthew. Benjamin. Yes. This is going to be a tough morning. And this is where the magic happens, the science happens.

Benjamin

I look forward to For the science happens.

Young Hollywood

The science. Science was never my thing at school, I have to be honest. I was loving. Um you always That's amazing. You must still be doing science. You're still doing science in school?

Benjamin

Yeah. Well I mean we are It is summer, so.

Young Hollywood

We just finished chemistry and now you're working as a scientist. This is brilliant. In the show your one of your experiments goes wrong.

Benjamin

We've got our neighbors Sid and Shelby, who are the two main girls in the show and they come over and we have an experiment that goes wrong. It's actually that laser right over there.

Young Hollywood

Naughty laser.

Benjamin

Yeah, bad. Bad, bad laser.

Young Hollywood

Why do we still have that thing in here? Should we get rid of it?

Benjamin

We still have it. No, because you're meant to learn from your mistakes. We're still going to use it and it uh gives these girls the ability to time travel. And so that that's kind of where the show starts and that's it's all about just what you would do if you're a teenager and you could time travel.

Young Hollywood

I want you to jump back and make sure this doesn't happen.

Matthew

Who's to say we haven't tried a bunch of times and it always ends up this way.

Young Hollywood

Have you? Who's to say? How are you not confused? How is it how is how is everyone else finding it on set? I mean you too, as far as twins go, you are twins. So, Benjamin has a like kinda just a mole right here and just

Matthew

Turn let us see that let us see that again.

Benjamin

That's not very nice. You don't need to point that out.

Young Hollywood

That is that really this is what distinguishes you too. This is amazing.

Matthew

Pretty much.

Young Hollywood

Do you play tricks on people?

Matthew

No, not that. Not that.

Young Hollywood

Why not?

Matthew

Um, I just don't like

Young Hollywood

You should.

Matthew

people.

Young Hollywood

You should. We need to train you on this. I'm going to give you some training after this interview. Cuz you could be really having some fun. Take us around the room. The room. This is obviously Sid's.

Landry

It's really fun. It's sort of it's like the perfect representation of her character. Okay. It's super like primary colors, the bean bags on the top. Um, I love the clown poster. That's shown in the first episode.

Young Hollywood

I've got to be honest. It's a little scary. It's a little scary. That looks like the clown that got you.

Landry

But it's the perfect way to set up our character because she has a dark side to her, which is cool. Just a little. They really wanted to like get a a nice dividing line between like the mess and the chaos and the scariness.

Young Hollywood

Are you you're not referring to the character, are you?

Landry

No. Okay. No, just just the room. But the and this is more of like the put together. Shelby's actually so crafty. It's it's so cute. She has just a little crafting station back there with tons of felt and tons of beads and tons of, you know, coloring things and you can always find Shelby crafting.

Young Hollywood

Is that similar to you in real life? Like making things?

Lauren

That's a no. That's a no. I think we we say that's a no.

Young Hollywood

What's been your favorite moment so far? Something you've made that sticks out as being a a great invention. Apart from this guy. Who's this guy?

Benjamin

Okay, so this is we've got an alien here, uh and

Young Hollywood

He hit you with it.

Benjamin

The Yeah, yeah. Well, it's a noose. Um, and they told us we could name the alien and I named him Jensen, although I'm not sure if that's

Young Hollywood

Jensen.

Benjamin

Official. Yeah. But his name is

Young Hollywood

As far as anyone's concerned. I'm fine with Jensen. His name is Jensen.

Benjamin

Jensen.

Young Hollywood

Hanson Jensen. I like Hanson Jensen. So take us around. We're in the a room where you guys spend a lot of your your time on the first season.

Landry

Yes, we did. Yes, take me around. I want to see everything.

Lauren

Okay, so um this is just our like just where we eat every single dinner and meal.

Young Hollywood

What's your favorite dish? If you were going to sit at that table now and you could eat anything, anything in the world?

Lauren

Probably a grilled cheese sandwich.

Young Hollywood

Grilled cheese sandwich. Very American.

Landry

I'll go with lasagna.

Young Hollywood

Lasagna. I think I'll pick lasagna. Good. Good one. If you were to time travel, would you go to the past or the future?

Lauren

Future.

Landry

Future.

Young Hollywood

Why? Or past. No. No, you can't you can't juggle like that. You can only go one. You first. Past or the future?

Lauren

Okay, I was thinking about this. I want I would do 2015, but in Back to the Future Part Two. Because it's like different than our real 2015. That's really random.

Landry

No, I would go past any day. There are so many times in the past that I wish I lived through. Like, can we can we talk about medieval times and then, you know, the 1700s and the 50s and the 80s and the 20s. Like, come on. Past any day.

Young Hollywood

Really. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

Matthew

Flying.

Young Hollywood

You personally.

Benjamin

Flying.

Young Hollywood

It's a good one.

Matthew

Teleportation.

Young Hollywood

Flying, teleportation, So anywhere in the world, right? That you can go anywhere in the world. I'll just take a little longer. But he can go. Yeah. What would you choose?

Lauren

I would I would definitely choose morphing, like J-Lo's character in X-Men. Okay. That is like that's my go-to because how cool would that be? Like, I could just like morph into anybody right now. Could morph into President Obama and just walk around.

Young Hollywood

That would be your go-to, would it? I was going to say if you could morph into anyone there. Probably Obama. That's a lot of pressure. Yeah.

Lauren

think you can handle it?

Young Hollywood

Maybe. I don't know. Okay. We'll see. There you go. Give it a go. Give it a go. I'm never going to look at Obama in the same way now. And you, Landry?

Landry

Um, flying's pretty cool. I know it's typical. Like that's a really typical superpower. That's always in my dreams. But it's it's really cool.

Young Hollywood

But you could get caught and then like locked in a lab.

Landry

That's very true. You know? Um. Like nobody can morph into.

Young Hollywood

He's just like here we are back on set. This time. We're not in a bedroom. We're in a school. This is a school. Yeah. This is where you go to school.

Benjamin

In the show.

Young Hollywood

In the show. In the show. This is only make believe. Only make believe. But it's pretty impressive the set. I mean it looks like a school. You got the got the posters behind us right here. The Robotics Club. Would you likely be in that club?

Matthew

I'm going to go with no. Okay. No.

Benjamin

I did robotics when I was little. I was in like No, no, no. No, it was like a like a girls' empowerment thing where we're like, yeah, we're girls, we're smart. You know, we can do this and, you know, we did. We took apart computers and stuff. It was for like, you know, girls who got straight A's and who were like, yeah, we're smart.

Young Hollywood

Nice. Nice. Cuz you two on the show are a little bit a little bit naughty, right? You act up sometime.

Matthew

Mischievous.

Benjamin

Mischievous. But not in real life.

Matthew

Not really in real life. I'm a good guy.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. With with that cheeky little grin he says, I'm a good guy. Seen that one before. Seen that one before. Did you uh did you have to learn magic for the actual episode?

Benjamin

Um, yes. Sort of, yeah. Uh, we have to we had to learn an illusion, an illusion which was a um levitation trick. Which was pretty fun.

Young Hollywood

Wow. So now you can levitate in real life.

Benjamin

Yeah. That was it. We just levitated. We just did it.

Matthew

We just did it. But you know what I really like about this school that I never had in real school? Real lockers. So I kind of feel like I'm going to actual school. It's nice.

Benjamin

And they're nice also too. They're not those like dirty.

Young Hollywood

Right. They're lovely and new as well. I kind of want those lockers. I know. We never had lockers in England either. This is making me feel absolutely terrible. We just had to protect our stuff in our pockets. They were our lockers. If you could be anyone in the world to assist them. Anyone. Anyone. Who and why?

Matthew

Thomas Edison because him creating light is the coolest thing in the world. And, you know, where would we be without light in this world, right? I mean, we'd be really dark.

Young Hollywood

That was that was a a lot better answer than I would have given. I would have just been, I don't know, Brad Pitt or something.

Matthew

Brad Pitt.

Young Hollywood

Just to buy his toilet paper. I don't know why toilet paper. It's just gone really weird. And what about you?

Benjamin

It's okay. I'll be that by the way. That that that's a tough one for me. I'll beat it with Nicola Tesla. Okay. Better than Edison. Cuz Edison and Tesla were competitors, but Tesla was a nicer guy and Edison was mean, so.

Young Hollywood

I think I would have wrapped this up because I clearly went to the wrong school. I didn't learn any of this, but whoever they are. I'm kidding. I know who they are. Matthew. Yes. Benjamin. Yes. We finished on a high. This is great. It's not easy. Not easy, I tell you. Look at them. They're twins.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Oliver Trevena

    Host of the Young Hollywood segment

  • Gus Kamp

    Plays Barry in the show, interviewed on set

  • Ricky Garcia

    Plays Nowdo in the show, interviewed on set

  • Lauren Taylor

    Plays Shelby in the show, interviewed on set

  • Landry Bender

    Plays Sid in the show, interviewed on set

  • Matthew Royer

    Plays Bret in the show, interviewed on set

  • Benjamin Royer

    Plays Chet in the show, interviewed on set

  • President Obama

    Mentioned as a person one might morph into with superpowers

  • Thomas Edison

    Mentioned as a historical figure to assist

  • Brad Pitt

    Mentioned as a person one might assist

  • Nicola Tesla

    Mentioned as a historical figure to assist

FAQ

What is 'Best Friends Whenever' about?+
The show is about two main girls, Sid and Shelby, who gain the ability to time travel after one of their experiments goes wrong with a laser in the science lab.
Who plays Barry and Nowdo in 'Best Friends Whenever'?+
Gus Kamp plays Barry Eisenberg and Ricky Garcia plays Nowdo Montoya in the Disney Channel series.
Who plays Sid and Shelby in 'Best Friends Whenever'?+
Landry Bender plays Sid and Lauren Taylor plays Shelby in the Disney Channel series.
What superpowers would the cast choose in real life?+
The cast members would choose powers like flying, teleportation, and morphing into other people.
Which historical figures did the cast want to assist?+
Gus Kamp wanted to assist Thomas Edison, and Matthew Royer preferred Nicola Tesla.

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