"The Shannara Chronicles" Stars on Great Hair & Training

"The Shannara Chronicles" Stars on Great Hair & Training
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YH catches up with actors Austin Butler and Aaron Jakubenko at MTV's press junket and cocktail party to get the scoop on their hit MTV fantasy series "The Shannara Chronicles", including filming in beautiful New Zealand and some of the coolest things they've gotten to do for their roles! They also talk about what music they're listening to right now, their favorite apps, and fashion trends they're into.
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Here with Austin and Aaron. You are not hair challenged on this show. You are not, you both have good hair.
Oh, yeah, this guy's got crazy hair. Oh, my hair is too thick. Shave it off. Please.
Please. Do not. From a female who loves men with long hair, embrace. Keep it going, keep it flowing, keep it long and strong. That's good. You're working it really well. The side part situation. I'm appreciating it. I'm fawning over you two right now. Can you say "the Shannara Chronicles" five times fast 'cause I can't even say it once.
The Shannara Chronicles. The Shannara Chronicles. The Shannara Chronicles. The Shannara Chronicles. The Shannara Chronicles.
You didn't say that fast enough, man. Do, okay, okay, okay.
The Shannara Chronicles.
I knew you'd get it. Yeah. You see, I told you, it's so hard to say it. You guys have the best backdrop in the world. I fell in love with New Zealand and the people. It really is incredible.
We had the best time. We were in the woods, and we had the best set transport. We had these crazy Remember all the crazy utes and trucks that we're just we're piling in the back as we're getting transported to set. It's dark when you you arrive and then the sun rises and you're just in this beautiful, beautiful landscape and I'm from Australia, so not too far, but New Zealand, yeah, it's pretty stunning.
So there's like the rivalry, Australia, New Zealand. It's kinda like New York, LA. There's like a little bit of a "we're better than you."
Oh yeah, we're better. Oh yeah.
Okay. And you guys get to do some badass things, so what's the coolest thing you've gotten to do so far?
I fell in love with riding horses. The horses for me was just a highlight. Um, that felt pretty badass. But but I did have I was in a fight and I had this one thing where I got harnessed up and I'm running up, about to, you know, maybe do a bit of damage on someone, and I kinda do this side kick off a tree and they pull me up by this harness and and I do this big launch and it's that was that felt like the most badass thing I've ever done. Yeah, I don't know if you've seen that. It was pretty cool. It was pretty It reminds me of like a Braveheart situation.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, you know, we try.
Or Brad Pitt in Troy when he goes up and stabs that Yeah. You're giving me a Brad Pitt Legends of the Fall situation right now.
Oh, wow. I'm honored for you to say that. Thank you.
I'm gonna keep talking about your hair. I'll stop now, I'll stop now, I'll stop now. I wanna find out what you guys are into. So favorite workout.
During the show, we all trained together. We all did um.
You gotta have some good tips at this point, right?
Yeah. And and we just This guy's a beast in the gym. Like there's a bear bear complex. No what's it called? Bear complex. Bear complex, which is just every almost every uh Olympic lifting that you could think of. Josh Randall, the guy who trained us, he's a beast. Really inspired us to be better and, yeah, probably didn't even want to get that big, but it was just so much fun that we we loved it. I've been boxing a lot. I started Krav Maga.
Did you?
Yeah, it's amazing.
That's amazing.
Yeah, we'll have to have a fight one day.
Are you good? Who's your favorite boxer then?
I'm a big Ali fan. Old school.
Old school. What about music you're listening to right now?
A lot of Radiohead lately. And a lot of Alabama Shakes as well. We had a couple of jams, actually, because I
Did you? Did you get together and jam on set?
Yeah, we tried. I I'm terrible. He's amazing. And there was a song that I've been loving. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Portrait of a Man. That's a really good song. It is a stunning song. It's just about this complexity of man and it and it's beautiful. I love all that.
One fashion thing you're into right now.
Everything simple for me is that's what I've always been into.
Because you're a good Aussie boy. You're like a simple, you know.
Yeah. Oh yeah. Maybe I try. I, you know, get me in anything too crazy and I feel like I'm out of out of my zone. So simple is best. Today I decided to wear sneakers instead of boots, which was something that I
Like the skinny leg with the sneaks. Favorite app or an app you're into right now?
Postmates, maybe.
Oh my gosh. You're the second I'm obsessed with Postmates. Do you order more than food?
Yeah, you can order anything. Anything you want. It's basically a personal assistant in your phone.
Oh, wow. It's it's Yeah.
With a large delivery fee.
Which would you say?
With a large delivery fee.
With a large delivery fee. It lends to being a hermit and it lends to you not spending
Oh, it made my life. Are you kidding? I haven't left my other than here, I haven't left my house in a month.
Favorite restaurant.
Just because we're here during filming, we felt all of us fell in love with this place called Dante's Pizza.
This is in where we can is it in New Zealand or this
This is in New Zealand. So I'm just teasing you now, just so you know. I'm saying here's the pizza you can't have it. Also, Sugarfish. I mean, for some great sushi, I'm I'm really into that. There's this place near me called Main Field Pokie. It's like mixed-up sushi and it's amazing. I love it.
Yummy. It's almost like dessert.
Yeah.
Almost like ice cream. Ice cream sushi.
Ice cream, raw fish. Yeah, I don't know what you're getting out there, but
It's nice. It's nice. Anything you wanna tease about the show to the audience?
I'm just watching it now for the first time with the audience and I'm falling in love with these characters that I didn't get to work with because we're on different sets um at different times and and it's really amazing watching that and I think the fans are in for a real treat.
Thank you both so much. Congratulations. Lovely meeting you. Keep growing the hair.
I'll try.
Don't cut it. Don't cut it. I know you're not. Thanks.
Thanks.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Austin Butler
Star of The Shannara Chronicles
- Aaron Jakubenko
Star of The Shannara Chronicles
- Josh Randall
Trainer for the actors
- Brad Pitt
Compared to his role in Troy and Legends of the Fall
- Ali
Favorite boxer of Aaron Jakubenko
- Radiohead
Music listened to by Aaron Jakubenko
- Alabama Shakes
Music listened to by Aaron Jakubenko
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Artist of a song Austin Butler loves
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