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Ryan Kelley Talks 'Teen Wolf'

Ryan Kelley Talks 'Teen Wolf'

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Ryan Kelley stops by the YH studio to give us the deets on 'Teen Wolf' Season 5! He tells us what he binge-watches and gives us his signature selfie face! He also reveals his favorite emoji!

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Young Hollywood

You have 14 siblings. This is the craziest. Are your parents Wait, that's not normal.

Ryan Kelley Talks

I did poop as a teenager. I really did.

Young Hollywood

The publicist is like They're in front of the camera going like, no way, no way. No. I'm a good kid. My mom is watching. I'm here with the fabulous Ryan Kelly. Um, don't adjust your TV sets. He's closed today. Welcome. Thanks for coming in. I just put you on the spot totally. You're so comfortable being naked on screen, aren't you at this point?

Ryan Kelley Talks

You get used to it.

Young Hollywood

You do, don't you? It's tough out there, isn't it? It's tough being objectified. But you're really cute about it. I saw your Instagram and you like, I think you posted like a sign where you were like #ImNakedAgain.

Ryan Kelley Talks

No, you got to I mean you got to have fun with it. It's uh, it's uncomfortable, but you get used to it and I walk around in a speedo a lot on set, so you do. make the most of it.

Young Hollywood

Really? Do you make the crew members walk around in a speedo with you?

Ryan Kelley Talks

I would do that. I'd make everybody do it just to make it one big Team Wolf party. I just try to make eye contact and stare, make it awkward.

Young Hollywood

Do they make eye contact back or they just

Ryan Kelley Talks

Some of them some of them just won't look. They'll just, you know, they're like, why is this kid staring at me? What is he doing?

Young Hollywood

Oh, I have a joke for you by the way. I love jokes. How do you make a Kleenex dance?

Ryan Kelley Talks

I don't know this one. I stole this from the Teen Wolf website. You told this joke. What was that? So they go around tell they go around asking jokes and and I was told it's going to be, you know, keep it PG. So I did, you know, what do you how do you make a hankie dance? Put a little boogie in it. And then and then they go to they show Conan O'Brien who does like a dirty nasty joke. He's the dirtiest joke. About having sex with your grandma and I was like, why didn't I get to say a fun one?

Young Hollywood

Well, you can say a dirty one here at Young Hollywood. Do you have any good ones?

Ryan Kelley Talks

Mine are really bad. I can't. Even even even then I wouldn't. No I can't. We'll cut it out later.

Young Hollywood

The publicist is like They're in front of the camera going like, no way, no way.

Ryan Kelley Talks

I'm a good kid. My mom is watching.

Young Hollywood

Okay, so let's talk about first of all the showrunner of Teen Wolf said that you are very important this season. Parrish is very front and center this season.

Ryan Kelley Talks

I like to think I was always important. I just in the background a lot.

Young Hollywood

Okay, okay. Let's rephrase. He said you were always important but you're particularly important this season. How has it felt to sort of have that moment? That Parrish moment?

Ryan Kelley Talks

Uh, it's really cool. You know, I'm I'm I'm in the mix of things now. I feel like I'm a part of the the pack, Scott's pack. You know, hopefully in the future I'll be able to help solve problems more or help with the supernatural, which Parrish is trying to figure out that whole world and coming into his powers and I'm just figuring out what he is.

Young Hollywood

And we're trying to figure out what he is too. #WhatIsParrish? It's trended. Everybody wants to know and so we're gonna find out soon.

Ryan Kelley Talks

Yes, it's coming. I wish I could tell you right now but I can't.

Young Hollywood

$1,000,000 question. And you know at this point because you didn't always know.

Ryan Kelley Talks

Yeah, I know. You know, as an actor you want to know all the information. You want to everything for your character helps you build uh, you know, your backstory, this and that. Teen Wolf with Parrish, it's been a lot of unknown. So I've had to do something completely different than I'm used to. But it's been fun. It's been entertaining.

Young Hollywood

Now, what was your reaction the moment you found out what is Parrish?

Ryan Kelley Talks

I was just excited that it was something cool. So it's really cool. Yeah. I just didn't want like it had to be, right?

Young Hollywood

Well, yeah, but I don't know, you never know.

Ryan Kelley Talks

I could be like I could be the character where like my finger lights up and you know, I can just make the dark not dark, you know, and I was like, that's it? That's all I got? You know, so I was scared. You're cute. But I was scared they're gonna give me something dumb, not useful.

Young Hollywood

Okay, so your reaction was if if your face was to give your reaction was 1, 2, 3. Okay, it's good. Okay, so it's good. I love it. Um, T-pose. I love calling him T-pose. Tyler Posey was talking about how there's sometimes like really crazy things that you guys obviously have to do on set and stunts and he talked about like the rain globules because he said when they have to make it rain on Teen Wolf. It's not really rain. He said the raindrops are like this big and it's freezing.

Ryan Kelley Talks

Oh, it's freezing. It's like cold water. Is it? And it like pelts you in the face. It's like thankfully I haven't had to do that much. Uh,

Young Hollywood

Don't tell the showrunners that. They're gonna be like, we're gonna put him in the rain next season. Not too much.

Ryan Kelley Talks

Yeah. Well, no. Mine's been equally. I'm I'm naked in the forest when it's freezing. That's true. I've been Malibu Creek Canyon like shaking as I'm supposed to be carrying a body like, uh, you know.

Young Hollywood

What do they do to keep you warm between takes?

Ryan Kelley Talks

You go in front of these heaters. These huge industrial heaters where you just like go and sit like, but it's like It's like I might be scalding my skin but I don't care. It's a delicate subject. You can't get too warm to where then you have to go back on camera and then you're like shake. So you have to like

Young Hollywood

Right. It's a you're it's a trick you have to learn. You have to like. So this is why I couldn't be an actor. I'd be like, keep me in front of that thing. I don't care if there's another take. I just need to be warm. I'm done. I'll be in my trailer. I just I just need to be warm. Okay, so you and Holland have had a little bit of a love triangle situation going but you've also had a really cool fight sequence that I saw.

Ryan Kelley Talks

Yeah, she she kicked my butt.

Young Hollywood

Is it more fun making out with her or fighting with her?

Ryan Kelley Talks

I would say making out with her except for the fact that the makeout scene with her, she was in blood and goop and I was, you know, it started. It was supposed to be, you know, it was a a dream sequence type thing. Right. Uh, so it starts off as I'm kissing her and it's her and then I pull back and then she's basically burned and bloody and it was terrible.

Young Hollywood

Oh my gosh. Terribly fun. It sounds like a lot of fun. It is. It so how is it? Because this is such a loved cast and this is such a, I mean, you've been on it for a few seasons, but this is, you know, you're like you said you're you're becoming more of the pack now. And just sort of like even when we interview them at Comic-Con, it's like, oh, I think they said they were like the Beyoncés of Comic-Con because it's just like the the fandom is crazy.

Ryan Kelley Talks

Yeah. Yeah, it was the that and Game of Thrones the highest, you know, trending social media for for all Comic-Con, which is awesome. You know, it's the fans. They love us. We love them and Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Best fan encounter you've had?

Ryan Kelley Talks

Uh, there's so many. You know, I do a lot of stuff where I travel overseas and do some promotion and some of the things that they make for you or they tell you the stories. It's mind blowing.

Young Hollywood

Are European and overseas fans crazier than the American ones? Who do you think generally is a little more risqué?

Ryan Kelley Talks

South American fans are pretty. Those Latinos. They're pretty passionate too. It's all over. It's all over. It's that's what's awesome about Teen Wolf. It's all over the world.

Young Hollywood

I'm I want to point out, you have 14 siblings. This is the craziest. Are your parents Wait, that's not normal. The nicest people on the planet or what what like what happened? Was this intentional? Did it just keep going?

Ryan Kelley Talks

If you have 14 kids, you can't be 100% nice all the time. There's no way. I mean, you can't you know, my mom has a little drill sergeant in her. God bless her. She has to. She does. Um.

Young Hollywood

So you're number five or number six? Okay. How do you stand out when you're in the whole pack in like Hey, I'm an actor. You got your wolf pack and then you got your own pack.

Ryan Kelley Talks

I became an actor. I I crave me attention. I need some attention somehow. Look at me.

Young Hollywood

What would your siblings and your friends say? You know, we talk about, you know, #WhatIsParrish? What would they say about who is Ryan? Are you like secretive and are you like an open book, do you think they would say as a person?

Ryan Kelley Talks

I would like to say they would say nice things. Yeah. Um, like I said, I grew up, I was the troublemaker. So they, you know, sure there'll be some fun little drabs in there, but uh it's you know, I'm I'm not I don't have any secrets. I'm an open book. They know They seem like a nice guy. They know uh Yeah. You know, all my dirty secrets, they know all my.

Young Hollywood

What's the worst thing your sibling ever did to you? Either, you know, like beat me with a hairbrush or or

Ryan Kelley Talks

Was this a female? Is this a sister? Yeah, yeah. My sister used to.

Ryan Kelley Talks

I was a tiny little kid so my sisters I was never able to, you know, they could they could muscle me around and plus there was so many of them that

Young Hollywood

Well, look at what have you shown them now? You're not exactly pear-shaped. Okay, now I'm ready for my game. Are you ready for my game?

Ryan Kelley Talks

I am.

Young Hollywood

It is called Young Hollywood's finish my sentence. Okay, so basically I'm going to start out something and you're going to finish the sentence. Okay? Are you ready?

Ryan Kelley Talks

I am.

Young Hollywood

The biggest adrenaline surge for me is

Ryan Kelley Talks

Being on stage in front of a large audience.

Young Hollywood

I love

Ryan Kelley Talks

Pizza.

Young Hollywood

My selfie signature selfie face is

Ryan Kelley Talks

Something from the past I wish I could have witnessed is Oh, uh a Lakers championship.

Young Hollywood

I binge watch

Ryan Kelley Talks

Oh, uh, I mean I watch so much TV, everything. Uh Netflix. I I can get lost in days in that.

Young Hollywood

I have plans to

Ryan Kelley Talks

Become president. Yes. It's not too late. It's not too late.

Young Hollywood

My vice is

Ryan Kelley Talks

I mean TV. I'm addicted to it. I watch way too much.

Young Hollywood

I I do too. So if you wanna watch, let me know. The fam too is invited. Um, I play

Ryan Kelley Talks

No music.

Young Hollywood

My favorite emoji is

Ryan Kelley Talks

The poop emoji.

Young Hollywood

And when I was a teenager, I once did this. There's a lot of stuff. I once

Ryan Kelley Talks

Help me out. I don't know. Uh. Um. I know my head's up in poop right now. I can't even. I did poop as a teenager. I really did.

Young Hollywood

And that was the game. Woo! Um, thank you for coming in.

Ryan Kelley Talks

No, thank you for having me. This has been a lot of fun.

Young Hollywood

Can't wait to see what you are.

Ryan Kelley Talks

Yeah, it's coming. It is. Fans. It's coming.

Young Hollywood

Are you ready? I don't know if I am. He's gonna tell me once we cut. So you better cut.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Ryan Kelley

    Interview subject and actor in 'Teen Wolf'

  • Conan O'Brien

    Mentioned in a joke comparison

  • Tyler Posey

    Fellow 'Teen Wolf' actor mentioned about stunts

  • Holland Roden

    Fellow 'Teen Wolf' actor mentioned in a love triangle/fight scene

  • Parrish

    Character played by Ryan Kelley in 'Teen Wolf'

  • Scott

    Character from 'Teen Wolf', mentioned as part of the pack

FAQ

What show does Ryan Kelley discuss in the interview?+
Ryan Kelley discusses 'Teen Wolf', specifically details about its fifth season, and his character Parrish.
What is Ryan Kelley's character Parrish trying to figure out in 'Teen Wolf' Season 5?+
In Season 5, Parrish is trying to figure out his powers and what he is, as he becomes more central to the show's supernatural plot.
Does Ryan Kelley know what Parrish is?+
Yes, Ryan Kelley knows what Parrish is, but he was initially kept in the dark by the showrunners, which was a new experience for him as an actor.
What is Ryan Kelley's favorite emoji?+
Ryan Kelley's favorite emoji is the poop emoji.
How many siblings does Ryan Kelley have?+
Ryan Kelley has 14 siblings, and he is the fifth or sixth child in his family.
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