Interview · moment 10 of 17
Theater Kid Energy on the Addison Rae Movie Set
from Call OJ Daddy with Stavros Halkias | The Tim Dillon Show #342 · #342
6 min
Guest
Tim describes working with young hot actors on his rom-com set with Addison Rae, their bursting into song like Bohemian Rhapsody, and riffs on how untouched-by-tragedy young hot people can't produce complex acting, referencing Starship Troopers casting logic.
- Tim describes encountering a Long Island waitress who mocks his California producer for not having a surfboard.
- Young actors on set spontaneously break into Bohemian Rhapsody, revealing their theater kid energy.
- Tim contrasts these actors' ability to randomly sing with how he or anyone he knew would be sent to a mental hospital for doing the same thing.
- The young cast members are all attractive, rich, and genuinely nice people living charmed lives.
- Tim reveals he plays a security guard who gets decapitated in the film, alongside the two young leads.
- For young, good-looking actors in teen movies, actual acting ability becomes largely irrelevant.
- Tim contrasts young actors' limited emotional range with Megan Fahey's subtle, brilliant performance in The White Lotus.
- Casting TikTok kids may be subversive commentary, like Starship Troopers casting conventionally attractive but weak actors to mirror propaganda aesthetics.
- Despite initial assumptions, the lead actress takes her role on set very seriously.
- Tim mentions yelling and screaming during a scene on another major film he can't yet discuss.
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