The three young actors opened up about their paths and offered advice for the SCAD students in the audience.

“It was definitely something that I was up for,” Sidney said.

There were so many similarities between us, which I thought was so cool."

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Caleb McLaughlin, Saniyya Sidney, and Suzanna Son at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.Monica Schipper/Getty Images

“He explained it in a bit of a different way,” Son recalled with a laugh.

“He was like, ‘Do you want to work on this really small guerilla film?

It’s nothing.’

And then we premiered at Cannes.

I really didn’t expect it to be so big!”

Watch the full panel above.