The teens of Netflixs latest holiday movie have the right idea: throw a party, of course!
Joan Cusacks also in there (!!)
driving a snowplow covered in tinfoil.
Credit: Netflix
Yes, you read that correctly.
It was Christmas time as well and I fell in love with it.
I told my agent and they set up a meeting with the producer.
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They told me, Maybe if the movie was happening later, yes, but for now, no.
So I was like,damn.
Then fast-forward to end of 2018 and theyre casting the movie.
Steve Wilkie/Netflix
They asked me to pick a character that I wanted to play.
Its crazy how time works, or destiny, or whatever.
Shipka:I read the movie five years ago.
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It hadnt been picked up by Netflix or anything like that.
I was so in love with Duke.
Well, theyre actually making it now with Netflix and the rest is kind of history.
I can relate to that.
Shipka:No, The Duke kind of spoke to me from day one.
When you know, you know.
Was it nice to play a tomboy?
Even just in terms of hair/makeup/wardrobe?Shipka:Yeah, definitely.
Shes so much more stripped down from what Im used to playing which is so fun.
Its kind of more how I am in real life.
Occasionally, I like to dress up, but Im a jeans-and-t-shirt kind of person.
It was, like, 15 minutes for hair and makeup so nice.
Its cool that this is a teen holiday rom-com and yet its not overly sentimental.
It didnt feel like a movie that I had ever seen before.
You want to hug every family member after and tell them how much you appreciate them.
I never talked to John directly until he came and visited on set.
It was actually during one of the bigger scenes, the sort of huge scene in the Duke/Tobin relationship.
Hes such a lovely guy.
Hes so fun, so cool and he has such great insights into the character and the story.
He really cares about how the movies that are being adapted off of his writing and it shows.
Theres a LOT of snow in that movie.
How was shooting in those conditions?
It hadnt been that cold in 70 years.
At least, I had the goose down.
Shipka:Yeah, it was chilly.
We actually kind of had the reverse effect: Were a movie calledLet it Snowso we depended on snow.
If it didnt snow, we would get canceled for the day.
So the opposite of snow days kept happening.
We wanted it to snow and it did a lot.
Shipka:It was the best.
We clicked absolutely immediately.
The first time we met it was a little bit before filming.
Just a lot of young kids in a hotel.
Im surprised we didnt get in trouble.
Shipka:Yeah, it was like come to this persons room!
We were inside, it was warm, it was the last day, we were all together.
It was the most beautiful, cathartic experience we could have.
We were just so happy.
Yeah, that was not acting.
Its such a magical moment, especially experiencing it with other people as well.
Merced:The Mick Jagger scene was a lot of fun to film.
Just dancing in general, I love.
Theres this thing that we do in it, a spin that I taught Shameik.
Its called The Octopus youll see it in the movie.
People are going to wonder where our characters learned to dance in sync, but whatever.
Have you guys ever gotten snowed in?
So I never had a snow day as much fun as that sounds!
We were barefoot in the snow just crazy kids!
We would jump in the hot tub and when you got in it burned.
I dont know; my brothers and I were crazy.
Let It Snowis streaming on Netflix now.
