Tyler James Williams
Interview: Tyler James Williams on Unaccompanied Minors
"I’d gotten about three others besides this movie here," said Williams. "I read them all, the other ones were great, they were really great, but there was just something about this. It seemed really fun to shoot, from everything that I read. Some of the stuff wasn’t even in the actual movie, but it just seemed like a great read and a great shoot, and it was going to be a success no matter who played it. No matter who did any role, it was going to be great."
His character, Charlie, is a nervous kid who faints at the sight of Santa Claus. He comes out of his shell over the course of the night's adventures, eventually dancing with and kissing his first girl. The initial dance moves were his own.
"There was no real choreography in the original script. The one that I first got said a cross between Napoleon Dynamite and ants in your pants. I’m happy that wasn’t one of the first things we did. We started off and we kind of led into it, so I could kind of get more of a feel for the character as to what he would do. Him coming from these older times, he would do older dance moves, and that’s basically what I had to pull from. I do dance. I’ve been dancing forever. Since I remember, that’s what I’ve been doing. I’ve never done that kind of dance before, I’ve never really kind of got into it. I was more hip-hop, break, all these other kind of dances, but I think that was kind of cool that I had to take some of those new dances that are out now and kind of mold it into an older form and a goofier form."
And for the kissing, Williams stayed in character along with his costar, Quinn Shephard. "I think it was one of those scenes, it was at the end of our shoot, we were almost done, we had like two more weeks to go, and we had progressed as the characters, we were at this time, most of the time, no longer really Tyler or Quinn. Most of the time, even when we were outside, we were Donna and Charlie doing this thing. And I think that made it easier. It wasn’t one of those things where we had to really concentrate, 'Okay, now when we do this make sure there’s nothing really going on there.' It was just we were having fun with it, and that was our job to do there and we did it."
Williams shot the film directly in his hiatus from the show. "There was no problem coordinating it, we finished in January, on the 25th I believe, and this started in February. There was no problem coordinating it. I was reading this the same time we were shooting Chris, and I was looking forward to it so much that it was like, ‘Okay, when is the season going to be done? I love you guys, I really do, but this is going to be fun, I know it.’ It’s like going to sleep the night before something really big happens, when you can’t sleep. I was really looking forward to meeting everybody, because I had no idea, I’d gone in with Quinn for the screen test, but there were five other girls, I didn’t know who they were going to pick. So it went well."
Unaccompanied Minors opens to theatres on December
8th.
For the trailers, posters, stills, more interviews, synopsis and additional movie info, go to the Unaccompanied
Minors Movie Page.
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