- I like this.
I like being in the middle of this duo,
this is cute.
- I mean, look, Kie,
if you want, you know,
this is totally cool,
but also, you're your own woman, too.
- I feel like, you can like--
- You know what I'm saying?
- totally own yourself,
and maybe Kie doesn't need a man.
Maybe Kie's like, "You know what?
"All y'all are coming at me."
- I think we all know Kie
doesn't need a man, but like--
- So, Madison, in real
life, are you Team Pope
or are you Team JJ?
(laughing)
This is your time to decide now.
This is a very, very important decision.
- Por que no los dos?
- What do the fans want?
- Listen, OK.
Listen.
I'll keep it real.
I'm Team JJ because it's unexpected.
It's unexpected!
We did not plan it at all
and I think it would be so interesting
to see something that
was completely created,
100% by the fans, and also the editors.
But like, to see that come in to fruition
because like, they didn't plan that.
- [Jonathan] We didn't shoot
with a love triangle in mind.
It wasn't written into the script.
It just kind of like, got
a life through social media
and the internet.
- So, what do you think about the show
and the Pogues connected
with the audience?
- I think there's
something about the Pogues
that empowers young people.
Where it's like, "I'm gonna live my life
"how I want to live it."
And I think what that enforces is that
young people have a voice,
they like, want to be heard.
- You don't get a lot
of accurate depictions
of what teenage life
is like in television.
You get a lot of your high school,
where the drama is kind of overdone.
They're trying too hard
to like, be young and hip
without actually achieving it.
Like, they try too hard to like,
"Oh, I think a teenager does this
"because they're on their
phones all the time."
It's almost like you're
making fun of teenage culture
instead of embracing it.
They don't have to 100%,
every time be the cool,
bleeding, I'm in my feelings all the time.
- Yeah.
We're not done up, we're not
like, on our A game all the time,
we're just like, we're chillin'.
- What's the weirdest
request from your fans
because I've been requested to be adopted
about three or four times?
(laughing)
I'm just wondering,
are you guys getting
adoption requests, as well?
- I had people ask for me to adopt them,
not for them to adopt me and I'm like,
"I don't know if I'm
ready to be a mother."
- The weirdest request I
get are people asking me
to set them up with you and Maddie Cline.
(laughing)
- I'm like--
- You think that's gonna work?
- I appreciate the boldness.
- We love you guys.
- [Jonathan] Oh, we do.
- There's no show without you guys,
so keep the requests coming.
I mean--
- [Madison] 100% dude.
I love the fans.
Just reading how much love
we're getting from everybody
is really hyping me up for season two.
I'm actually like really excited.
- What are some good
memories you have of us
just kind of like being friends,
not even related to set,
just kind of off of it?
- Oh, JD.
(crying)
- Why'd you have to hit
me with that one, man?
- You know, it's real.
It's real.
- [Rudy] I know it's real.
- I hit the whole camera.
- You got water coming
out of my face right now.
(laughing)
- Here. I'll give you a second.
Okay, I'll answer.
- [Jonathan] He's leaking.
I think the bond, oh my God, wow, what?
Okay. I think it's just
like, we start every morning
in hair and makeup, you
walk in, I go around
and kiss all the boys
on their heads and like,
"Good morning."
You know, we beat up the
scenes in our trailer together,
we laugh, we eat breakfast, we hang out,
and then we go to set.
And in between every take we're
like constantly messing around
and then we wrap, and then you think,
"Oh, we're gonna go home
"because we're all sick
and tired of each other,"
and it's like,
"So, we're all going
to Rudy's place, right?
"We're gonna go play Mario Kart?"
- "We're all gonna play Mario Kart."
(laughing)
- Yeah, like, "Are you guys hungry?
"We should definitely get food."
We constantly are like trying to
hang out with each other a
little longer. (laughing)
- JJ-- or should I say Rudy?
Rudy Pankow.
- You should address me
by my real name.
- Your relationship with
your father on screen
is very, it's very, let's say, turbulent.
- Yeah, a little bumpy.
- Getting into that emotional
head space as an actor
is very you know, difficult, you know.
So, how did you go about just
kinda getting into that space,
but bringing out those emotional moments
and making them feel real
and not hokey or forced?
- Part of the process is
really, really, really
accepting the fact that
there is somebody out in the world today
who is being abused, who is
being taken advantage of,
who has felt completely
abandoned by everybody.
By everybody.
And you need to portray
that as real as it can be
when somebody else is feeling it
because the truth of the matter is
you're not yourself anymore.
You gotta be connected to your character
that is really struggling
and going through that.
So, that is the best way I
can answer that question.
JD, I just want to say something.
You gave up everything when you were Pope.
You gave up so much.
Like, you gave up your
trust with your family,
you gave up your trust with kind of
the Pogues for a second there,
and then you gave up on your dream.
When you were going through
that process to say like,
"All right, I gotta come
through with my friends."
Was the feeling for your friends
or was the feeling like, the
responsibility as a person
to do this for these people?
- I think speaking for
Pope, as the character,
kind of the back story
I gave it, you know,
he has more of a conscience than people
think he would like to think he has
and that people would
believe he has, you know?
He does care for his friends, you know?
I see a lot of people like,
"Oh, he's the softest Pogue."
You know, it's 'cause he
does have that emotional
connection to everybody there.
The fact that he didn't
hesitate when he figured it out
speaks volumes of how he
feels about his friends
and the people he loves.
He's willing to make the sacrifices,
the ones that have to be made,
and he's willing to be the end of it.
He's willing to take that
short end of the stick
for his friends, you know?
A lot of the time, he's
the butt of the joke,
but he's also kind of,
in a way, sort of like
one of the most caring.
It's like, in his own way.
- And I see so much responsibility in Pope
and that kind of, I want to say, maturity.
He's definitely the most
mature out of the Pogues,
I would say.
(laughing)
And I see that--
- Still sunk a boat.
(laughing)
And I see that as you, as
JD, for sure, is that like--
- I agree.
It's crazy how you're the
youngest person in the cast,
but your maturity stands out so much.
- Thanks, guys.
- [Madison] In everything.
- So, I want to give you
a hypothetical, OK. - OK.
Because I would do the same
for you in this situation,
because you're my brother and I love you
and you're basically family.
- We are family.
- [Madison] Absolutely.
- I would definitely let you know
when Sony was casting Miles Morales.
(laughing)
But, like, I just heard a whisper of it,
like, I'm in an audition.
If you went to that audition
and all of a sudden you
heard that, I don't know,
Sony out of the weird blue,
was casting 'Spider-Man'
for the fourth time--
- Again?
- [Rudy] Just randomly,
would you run to me?
- I would say, "My best
friend Rudy Pankow--"
- [Rudy] Out of everything you do,
if you're in the middle of your audition,
you'd drop what you were
doing in the audition,
and be like, "I need to tell Rudy this."
- Yeah, I'd be like,
I'd finish and be like,
"Guys, guys, I gotta say, I gotta say.
"If you're looking for
'Spider-Man,' again,
"Rudy Pankow is the best Spider-Man
"I've ever seen in my life."
- Oh my God.
- [Jonathan] And he would
sacrifice his body for the role.
- The real question is,
if for whatever reason either
of you guys found yourself
talking to somebody at Disney,
and they were casting for
live-action 'Moana.' If
there was anybody just like,
on the top of your mind, I don't know,
anybody that you could think of--
- Top of the list.
I need that audition for
live-action Prince Naveen.
(laughing)
- [Madison] Okay, fair point.
- Y'all freaking know that I'd
be Prince Charming in 'Shrek,'
like it just wouldn't be fair.
(laughing)
- I thought you were the Fairy Godmother?
(laughing)
- No, you should be Kristoff in 'Frozen.'
- Ah, I've been compared to him, actually.
- Rudy should play Puss in Boots.
(laughing)
- If there's a season two,
how are you guys gonna prepare
and do you feel like there's
gonna be more pressure on us?
- The challenge, I
wouldn't say wouldn't be
pressure of doing anything different?
It's the pressure of trusting the writing,
trusting your intuition
with your character
because I think all of our
characters are going to be
going through very, very new things.
And that's what carries us
and dealing with that pressure.
It's completely new.
If you're doing something
similar as season one
and it's going to be the
same thing as season one,
the pressure is 10x harder
because it's like, then you
have to nail it even better.
- Once we get back in it,
we're gonna be there--
- [Rudy] Yeah, we have
our characters down.
- I don't think there's going
to be an adjustment period,
I think we're just gonna,
"Okay, and we're back."
You know what I mean?
