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'Project Almanac' Cast on Favorite Birthdays & Life Do-Overs

'Project Almanac' Cast on Favorite Birthdays & Life Do-Overs

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It's a full house (or a full couch) at the YH Studio when the hot young cast of sci-fi flick 'Project Almanac' stops by! Jonny Weston, Virginia Gardner, Sam Lerner, and Sofia Black-D'Elia chat with us about their amazing on-screen chemistry, plus they reveal who is the best dancer among them, their most memorable birthdays, and what they would do if they could have one do-over in their lives!

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Young Hollywood

It's great to have the cast of Project Almanac here. Thanks for coming in, guys. It's a full house today. I love having a full house on the couch. Wait, is this an accident or your colors?

Guest

This was not planned but we I designed their dresses. Second guest: We're the we're the book ends.

Young Hollywood

In when I watch the film, there's a lot of times I watch films and I go, they didn't know each other before they started filming. But you guys really seem like you knew each other like your whole lives.

Guest

It's actually a really great compliment that we get when people say that they feel like we've been friends for a really long time cuz that was something that we really wanted to come come across making the movie was that we really did get along and we loved each other and we wanted it to feel as natural as possible. Second guest: That's my seventh birthday.

Guest

Whoa, did you see that? Hold on a sec. I just saw something weird. You guys, you got to see this. Right there. Look in the mirror. Dude, that can't be. That's definitely me. We need to figure out what I'm doing on this tape. You hear that? It's in my dad's old workshop. It's like clicking or something. What the hell is that? Here we go. Project Almanac temporal relocation prototype. What does that mean? It means time travel. We should try to build it. You guys are crazy. We can't build a time machine. Do you see the tape? I mean, I think we already did build it.

Young Hollywood

So, there's a scene in the film where you're learning how to You don't really know how to dance. It's a Lollapalooza. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Who's the best dancer of all of you guys?

Guest

I actually am the best dancer. Second guest: No, I'm the worst dancer. You know me. We could probably ask. Tell no, tell no the prank we did onset. We all did. So, Allan does this thing called dance dares on her show. So, Soffon and I kind of started doing that to cast and crew members while they were doing some. Yeah, we'd like do this behind them and they'd be taking themselves very seriously. Cuz you know they're trying to make a movie or something. They're like doing something important. We come up to them and do this and see how long it takes them to notice. And we have like 40 videos of us. Just like you're on the couch right now. Oh, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It happens on the couch all the time that I feel like there's somebody behind you all the time. Like I did this like paranoia onset that we were constantly behind people.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. So there's a seventh birthday, your seventh birthday in the film. What was your favorite birthday?

Guest

13 years old, went to a skatepark with all my friends.

Young Hollywood

I thought you were going to say something else about 13.

Guest

You just it's in my eyes is what it is. Like like Yeah, like all we're wearing helmets and elbow pads all cute and just like eating ice cream and cake and stuff. Yeah, no, we were super cute. The most important thing was looking cute. It was very important to.

Young Hollywood

Were you cute at 13?

Guest

I have no idea. Actually no, I do know I was for sure cute, yeah.

Young Hollywood

He's a heartbreaker.

Guest

Someone told me one of my older brother's friends called me a heartbreaker when I was like 11 and it's never left me. I've always known from that point on, yeah.

Young Hollywood

We'll just call you heartbreaker from now on.

Guest

That would be awesome. Second guest: I don't know, my Bar Mitzvah was pretty cool.

Young Hollywood

I was just gonna say Bar Mitzvah. Second guest: You have to see picture. The day that I became a man. My favorite yeah.

Guest

He walked into his Bar Mitzvah just gangster with like rings and necklaces. Second guest: He roller bladed in on my Bar Mitzvah like and I thought I was the coolest person in the world. I was really chubby too. I was like.

Guest

He's skating in and everyone was like, yeah, cool man. Second guest: I came out to bring them out, bring them out. It's time to yell at them all.

Young Hollywood

Okay, never theme. Never theme, lottery. Winning the lottery. Um, blowing, you won the lottery, you're going to blow the money.

Guest

I'd buy a lot of real estate. Nice. But I feel like I'm getting older. I would buy a nice investment property. Put it on the side. Um, Second guest: That's how I feel.

Guest

No, our characters totally had it right, you know. Second guest: Yeah, our characters had a great time. I mean, my character was a Maserati that's probably something that I would do first.

Young Hollywood

Would you throw down the cash like you did? Second guest: Oh yeah. Dump the cash on the table obviously. You wait till he's like no way. You can't use a credit card.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, what do you I finish this sentence you guys, before the end of the world I want to.

Guest

Go to Bora Bora, I've always I was just there.

Young Hollywood

Were you really?

Guest

Yeah, it's crazy. It's the most beautiful place in the world. I want to go so bad. Second guest: Yeah, just hooking it up, a buddy, so Um, trying to think. What was the question? I forgot.

Young Hollywood

Heartbreaker, you know, whoop's people. Heartbreaker was uh getting a favor, you know. Um, so there's a theme in the movie about having a second chance and doing having a do over. Do you have either audition or anything in your life you would like to do over?

Guest

So, um, I had an audition for one line in a movie. So the line was, you're ruining my life and I come in and I just go Leave me alone. And the casting director was like, great, great, great, great. Awesome Sam, but can you try one like where you're saying the line and I was like, Yeah, no, you know I just thought I figured cuz it was so short like I could just put my own spin on it. And she was like, yeah, that's great. But just do it right this time and then maybe we could do that. I was like, wow.

Young Hollywood

That's a really good audition story. That's a good one. Any any other do overs?

Guest

Um, I have plenty of audition stories but something like embarrassing that's happened to me that I've I've been telling this story a lot today when I'm asked this question, but I was on a date with this guy and it was like one of our first actually, the only date I ever went on with this guy. We were in a movie theater and I went in for a kiss and I sneezed on his face.

Young Hollywood

So who's choice was it not to see each other again? You cuz you're embarrassed or him cuz he was like, yeah, she. Was that your just your instinct kicking in? I feel like you and I were separated at birth. A lot of similar qualities.

Guest

We have very similar qualities.

Young Hollywood

And what about heartbreaker?

Guest

Heartbreaker would uh take back. What would I take back? Any do over? Yeah, do over's man. I don't know. I just don't know.

Young Hollywood

You just have you just didn't it all right.

Guest

Yeah, well I like I like I like screwing it up a little bit.

Young Hollywood

Again, I thought you were going to say something else. It's never mind. Maybe it's you then. I don't know what's going on. We're going to get so much trouble for this interview. Oh I love it though. I love it. I think I see 60 years from now. It's going to be like Project Almanac 50. I hope we have a new cast by then. I did it with like 21 Jump Street at the end where they have like 20 or like 54 Jump Street. Or the movie Boyhood, it takes 12 years. Anyway, thank you guys for coming in. It's a lot of fun. It's a great, great movie. It makes you think. You come out of it going, wait, what year am I in? Wait, hold on. I got to reset my whole life. So, it was awesome.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Jonny Weston

    Cast member of Project Almanac

  • Virginia Gardner

    Cast member of Project Almanac

  • Sam Lerner

    Cast member of Project Almanac

  • Sofia Black-D'Elia

    Cast member of Project Almanac

  • Allen

    Does 'dance dares' on her show

FAQ

Who are the cast members of Project Almanac interviewed?+
The cast members interviewed are Jonny Weston, Virginia Gardner, Sam Lerner, and Sofia Black-D'Elia.
What is 'Project Almanac' about?+
Project Almanac is a sci-fi flick that involves time travel, as suggested by the mention of 'temporal relocation prototype' and building a time machine.
Which cast member considers themselves the best dancer?+
Sofia Black-D'Elia states she is the best dancer among the cast.
What is one memorable birthday shared by the cast?+
Jonny Weston recalls his 13th birthday at a skatepark with friends, and Sam Lerner mentions his Bar Mitzvah where he rollerbladed in.
What is a do-over audition story shared by Sam Lerner?+
Sam Lerner had an audition for a movie where his line was 'You're ruining my life', but he delivered 'Leave me alone', leading the casting director to ask him to say the actual line.
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