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Raffey Cassidy and Her Beautiful Optimism – Our Tomorrowland Interview #TomorrowlandEvent

May 27, 2015 by Jenni 730 Comments

Disclosure: I was provided an all-expense paid trip to the #TomorrowlandEvent in Los Angeles California in order to facilitate this post; however all opinions and thoughts of sweet, sweet Raffey Cassidy expressed are my own.

 

Raffey Cassidy interview for Tomorrowland

Earlier this month when I was in LA for the Tomorrowland Event, I had the opportunity to interview some of the cast and the writer/producer. Here’s our George Clooney Interview part 1, and part 2. Our Britt Robertson interview, and our Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof interview. This interview with Raffey Cassidy was incredible. She is seriously just the sweetest thing. To be so young (just 12 years old!), she’s very mature and I think she’s got a long and happy career as an actress ahead of her.

 

Frank and Athena in Tomorrowland

Raffey as Athena…

The part of Athena was absolutely made for Raffey. I can’t think of anyone else who would have played the part better. Raffey goes into a little more detail about that here in the interview.

Q. What was your first scene and which scene was your favorite?

Raffey: “Oh, my first scene… It was in the world’s fair when I was watching young Frank getting on the bus. My favorite scene to shoot was probably the blast from the past sequence. I really liked that ’cause, I mean, it had a lot of action in it.”

 

athena

There’s Always a Bright Side…

Raffey’s outlook on life AND the film is optimism. She’s very optimistic and that’s such an excellent quality to have, especially at a young age.

Q. What’s the one take away from the movie?

Raffey: “That everybody should be very optimistic and feel that there’s a way around situations if they’re in a bad situation. There’s always a bright side. I love how wise Athena is, like she’s like an old soul inside of a young body.”

 

A mathematical dress…

I never noticed this IN the movie so now I can’t wait to watch it again and pay special close attention.

Q. How did you feel about your costumes in the movie?

Raffey: “I loved them. The blue dress, if you look closely, there are actually algorithms in algebra. If you look close, you can see them!”

 

 

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Raffey Learns the Ropes…

Q. You had a lot of action scenes where you had to do martial arts. Did you have to train for that?

Raffey: “Yeah, I trained for two months in gymnastics and martial arts, and then I went to Canada and did another month of martial arts and a bit of gymnastics. Then throughout the sixth month of filming, I did another couple of days every week or so.”

Q. So what were your feelings on driving the truck and learning to do that?

Raffey: “Well I really enjoyed it. It was so fun ’cause I worked with an amazing stunt team, and so they actually taught me how to drive and there was a scene where I had to like, go down a ramp and then stop. I think really I started to get a little too confident, and I got too close. Britt just went “stop!”, because I got so close.” (crowd laughs!)

 

 

raffey poster tomorrowland

Athena’s Traits, her Role and Training…

Raffey’s outlook is very bright and cheery. She smiles throughout the entire interview and you can feel the positivity just oozing from her. She’s such a sweet girl, and you could tell she was really enjoying talking about the movie!

Q. What traits of Athena do you see in yourself.

Raffey: “Well, if I had to choose something, it would probably be optimism, because I think that I feel that I’m quite optimistic and always look on the bright side of a bad situation.”

Q. How did you train to play the role of Athena?

Raffey: “Athena has so many different qualities. She’s optimistic. She’s intelligent. She’s wise, and I just kind of put all of those together, and I always had an image in my head for a scene, so, it was never just go in cold into it and try to create one in my head. I always had an image that would just help me and I’d always be able to think of that to get me through the scene.”

Q. What was your hardest scene to film in the movie?

Raffey: “My hardest scene would probably be, hmm, my end scene. I mean, that was a lot of lines, but once I’ve learned them, it just flowed. George had a lot of eye contact with me, so it’s so easy to perform and it would have been hard if, you know, if George wasn’t so good. But yeah, it was easy ’cause he just, he was just so professional and kept eye contact the whole time.”

Q. You filmed in a few different locations. Did you have a favorite?

Raffey: “Probably the Eiffel Tower, I mean, because that was an actual thing that Tomorrowland had recreated and it, it was just so real and very cool.”

 

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Raffey Gets Deep…

I mentioned that at such a young age, Raffey is very mature. The next question really shows you her insight and what she wants people, especially girls, her age to know!

Q. What’s the message that you would tell girls your age about the future?

Raffey: “Well, I’d say the future isn’t a place we’re going. It’s something we’re making, so it can be anything that they want it to be. It makes me think about the future now and, and how optimistic we can all be and, and how we can make it what we want. Maybe I can make a difference in the world.”

 

 

 

Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland in theaters NOW! GO SEE IT!!

Head out to the theater tonight with your family and see Tomorrowland! Think “retro futuristic”.

Like TOMORROWLAND on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyTomorrowland

Follow Disney Pictures on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisneyPictures

Visit the official TOMORROWLAND website: www.Disney.com/Tomorrowland

 

Are you taking your family to see Tomorrowland? You can read our movie review here!

Filed Under: Disney, Entertainment, Kid Friendly Tagged With: disney, Interview, Raffey Cassidy, Tomorrowland, Tomorrowland Event

My George Clooney Interview for Tomorrowland Part 1 – #TomorrowlandEvent

May 13, 2015 by Jenni 283 Comments

Disclosure: I was provided an all-expense paid trip to the #TomorrowlandEvent in Los Angeles California in order to facilitate this post; however all opinions and admiration for George Clooney expressed are my own.

Tomorrowland George Clooney InterviewPhoto Credit: Louise Bishop Momstart.com

Yes. This happened. Last Friday, actually! I, along with 24 other bloggers, interviewed George Clooney at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills! He’s starring in the new family friendly Disney movie, Tomorrowland. I’ve never been in the same room with a celebrity, let alone ask one a question, and have them answer my question. George Clooney spoke to ME! He plays the role of “Frank Walker” in Tomorrowland – which is a seriously grumpy character, which Clooney plays perfectly. The real George Clooney, however, is very funny. He’s funny, quick witted, down to earth, and genuinely nice.

 

George 3-1Photo Credit: Louise Bishop Momstart.com

George Breaks the Ice

George is SUPER funny and pops out these wise-cracks in a millisecond. As soon as he walks into the room filled with very nervous and star struck women, he says “I have never seen a table this long.” You have to remember that there were 25 of us sitting around this gigantic table. And then in a really deep voice he cracks this joke,“Alright, we have time for one more question.” And the entire room of women laugh. Then he asks us, “So you are Mommy Bloggers? Really!” and we all in unison answer, “Yes!”. We were all anxious and nervous from the get go, so he totally broke the ice!

 

george in tomorrowland

George Believes in Tomorrowland

Once the ice broke, we were all instantly ready to hear what George thought of his role as Frank in the movie, and how he felt about the message behind Tomorrowland. When asked, “Alright, so the message in Tomorrowland said a lot. Can we fix it? And you firmly believe in that with all your humanitarian work. Is that one of the things that drew you to the movie?”

…and George replied…

“You know, at first I wanted to work with Brad Bird and then when I read the screenplay, I thought, you know, we sort of are inundated in our lives with lots of bad news. You turn on the television and it hurts. It’s a bad time and what I loved was the idea that their future isn’t just automatically inevitable. And that, you have to participate and you don’t have to just accept how it ends. I was born in the early 60’s, so I grew up in the era where the individual actually had effect. The civil rights movement, the Vietnam movement, the women’s rights moments, and that stuff, and so I always felt like and believed that there was a version of it. I was raised that there was a version of this where you could affect the future, and you didn’t have to just accept it. The Russians weren’t gonna necessarily just blow us all up.”

 

George 6-1Photo Credit: Louise Bishop Momstart.com

George, Tomorrowland, Jetpacks, and Tang

It’s very apparent that the little boy who believes in make believe, still lives inside George Clooney. We chatted for a bit about the futuristic things in Tomorrowland. He was asked if it was difficult to work with contraptions and harnesses.

George replies:

“I’ve done it a few times. In Gravity, I had to do it. But, the thing about being an actor is you really don’t ever have to grow up, right? We’re still playing make believe. I’m 54 and I’m playing make-believe. So when they put you in a contraption, and say now you’re gonna fly, I mean, you’re still a 12 year old and you go really, am I gonna fly from here to there? Oh yeah, let’s go, it’s fun. I’ve always found that part to be magical. I just wish the jet pack really worked.” The crowd laughs. “You know, when I was growing up, it was the space race and we were eating space food sticks and drinking Tang and I really thought by now we’d be riding around in Jetson cars. But no such luck.”

Then someone asked if the jetpack would be one of the futuristic things that would be awesome to have, George replied,

“Let me put it to you this way. So you’re at LAX. You get your bags. I’ve got to get to Studio City. It’s 4:30 on a Friday. It would be the greatest moment ever, just blasting right over all the traffic. I think it would be fantastic, although, you know, I don’t know that I want everybody to have one ’cause they’d just be circling my house yelling down at me, Hey! What’s Amal gonna wear to the MET Ball?” We all crack out in laughter at that, and we all loved that he mentioned his beautiful wife! Then he finishes, “So no, I don’t know if I want everybody to have a jet pack.”

 

George’s Favorite Scenes

My favorite parts in the movie are also George’s favorite parts! In the Tomorrowland movie trailer, you see some scenes of the outside and the inside of an old farmhouse. This is where you first meet “Frank” (Clooney) and you see his grumpy and rigid character. When asked what his favorite scene in the movie was, he replied…

“Yeah, that’s a good question. It’s fun because, look, first let me start off by explaining to you how I came to this part, right? Brad and Damon called me and said we’ve written a part for you in a movie. And I’d been trying to work with Brad for a long time. They send me the script and I open it up and the description of me is a 55 year old angry, bitter, guy. I’m like, thanks guys – thank you so much. But what I loved about it was that the entire film, he’s just a grump. I loved like when Britt first comes to the house. We really had fun shooting all that stuff in the farm house. That was fun ’cause all the robot guys were really sweet and nice, and not really robots, you know. And, so I think that might have been the most fun scene to shoot, all the farm house stuff.”

P.S. Several of these farmhouse scenes are in the movie trailer above! Don’t miss it!

 

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George’s Got a Gun

So, okay…back to the little boy living inside of George Clooney. The very last question that was asked was if he kept any props or memorabilia from the Tomorrowland movie and I got the biggest kick out of his reply…

“Now here’s the thing. Disney’s got armed guards around all that stuff. And Brad is very, possessive of all those things as well, so I will not answer what I stole, because they will come take it away from me, but it shoots rays and it’s a gun.” The entire room laughs and George has the biggest smile on his face.

 

George’s Quote Struck Home with Me

I have to say I didn’t take my eyes off of George the entire time. Yes, he’s very handsome…but that’s not why I couldn’t quit watching and listening. When does a normal work from home mom get a chance to meet a celebrity of his caliber?! I wanted to absorb everything he had to say. Not just as an actor, but as a human being with real thoughts, feelings and emotions.

George said many inspiring and funny things during our interview, but the one phrase that struck home with me was this…

“The future is yours and the future is yours to decide what it will be.” – George Clooney

 

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After the interview was over, we all piled around George for a group photo. He’s in the middle – completely surrounded, haha. I’m behind him, to the left…in the light tan colored top. You can tell by the looks on our faces that we were very happy and excited to be IN the same breathing space as George Clooney. Hello!

 

Tomorrowland Poster

Mark Your Calendars for Tomorrowland – Friday, May 22nd!

Plan on taking the family to Tomorrowland on Friday, May 22nd. It’ll be in theaters everywhere!! Think “retro futuristic”. That’s sort of the theme for the movie.

Like TOMORROWLAND on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyTomorrowland

Follow Disney Pictures on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisneyPictures

Visit the official TOMORROWLAND website: www.Disney.com/Tomorrowland

 

Are you taking your family to see Tomorrowland?

 

 

Filed Under: Disney, Entertainment, Kid Friendly Tagged With: disney, George Clooney, Interview, Tomorrowland, TomorrowlandEvent

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