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Evan Alex haunts as aferal masked boywhos literally just waiting to light everything on fire.
So, I would definitely seeUslike a hundred times.
Ushas a lot ofvery big ideasin it.
He would really just talk about what the scene meant to him.
That helped a lot.
Like, I have a green sweatshirt that says tho on it, and it means rabbit in Vietnamese.
I have a rabbit in my room, and I have a rabbit on one of my T-shirts.
Theres a rabbit in Jasons room.
Plus, you know, Jason wants to become a magician, so the rabbit in the hat.
I definitely want to work with them again.
Then we would confer with Jordan and he would be like, Okay, lets try that.
And theyre really great method actors so they just go into their characters all day.
I tried that and it helped a lot as well.
That seems really intense, especially when youre playing through so many comedic elements throughout the movie.
Because Ive never had to actually go that deep into my fear state.
Ive never experienced anything close to that traumatizing.
So, that that was the hardest part.
Justthe costume changeand the makeup and hair took a little while, but also getting into the mind space.
You have to do that really quickly because of the child labor laws.
We cant work past a certain hour.
Speaking of being a young actor, your phone acting was great.
Was that in the script, or did that come from you?
I wanted to make her a relatable teenager, and people are always on social media these days.
Do you relate?A little bit!
Sometimes I fall into the social-media trap.
And you got some great mean teen digs in at Winston with his dad jokes.I taught him those!
[Note: According to Evan Alex,hetaught Winston his dad jokes.]
Oh, so is someone in your family totally into corny dad humor?Oh, its me!
We really got to improvise a lot.
Yet she has admiration for her, you know?
She has the sun.
She has the sky.
Thats why we have Red [Lupita Nyongos doppelganger character].
I was definitely looking forward to that whole Zora and Umbrae chase scene.
In a regular movie you would see them that way.
You know, they show up at your house.
I think he was really trying not portray them that way.
