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- Are you into astrology at all?

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- A little bit, yeah.

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- Does Jane have a astrological sign?

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- Jane is a Libra.

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- Okay.

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Oh, that makes perfect sense.

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- Yeah. Right, exactly.

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And when I was reading about it,

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I was like, yeah, totally in line.

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- "Rise of The Pink Ladies"
is the prequel to "Grease."

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And it takes place four
years before the movie?

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- Yes.

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- [Lauren] So you played Jane.

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What can you tell us about this character?

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- So Jane is an overachiever.

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Glass half full,
ambitious, bright eyed girl

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who has a lot of goals and, in life

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and is trying to get into
all the clubs in school.

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She wants to design the pep rally.

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She's kind of, not a control freak,

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but she likes to do things she thinks...

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You know, she's very good.

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And she finds herself with like,

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just the heart throb of
the school over the summer.

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And then she realizes, she's
like, I know how this works.

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You and I don't belong together.

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I'm gonna make it really easy for you

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and pay attention to like, you know,

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the social standing and the classes.

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And he's like, no, I actually
think this could work.

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So she gets very excited thinking

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that this year's gonna be very different.

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And she finds that it's much harder

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to navigate than she thought.

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And she just runs into a
lot of trouble, rumors,

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and it feels very alone.

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- So, do you have a memory growing up

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from watching "Grease" for the first time?

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Or just, I mean, it's
obviously such a beloved movie,

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like any memory around it?

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- I know, I was just saying the other day

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that like, I don't remember
the first time I've seen it.

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It's just always been there-

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- In the world.

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- And I think that's the
case for a lot of people,

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because I showed a friend of mine recently

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the movie who had never seen it, and-

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- Never seen it!

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- I know, I know.

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They're very lucky I did
not disown them as a friend,

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but I got the pleasure
of showing it to them

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for the first time.

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And we were listening
to, we're watching it

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and he was like wait, I know this song.

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This is from this movie?

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You know?

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Like, it's just something
that people know.

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- I remember, I probably
saw it for the first time

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when I was like five.

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And I did not understand
the Rizzo storyline at all.

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- Totally. I mean, a lot of them.

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- Yeah, And I remember asking my mom

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and she was just like,
isn't the music fun?

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Like, just...

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- And that's the thing too.

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- [Lauren] Fully glossed over it.

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- Is that's kind of what
you, that hangs with you.

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Is the numbers and the
colorfulness of the world

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and the nostalgia of that era.

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- It's big and fun and like, so exciting,

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but it's also very,

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like, it does feel modern even though,

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you know, you're in the 1950s.

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- Right.

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- And then obviously the movie,

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the original movie dealt
with a lot of social issues

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like teen pregnancy and peer pressure.

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How would you say this
series deals with, you know,

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things like sexual
exploration and rebellion and-

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- Yes.

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We cover all of that and then some.

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And we go even deeper

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and we're even more blunt than they were.

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- Oh, okay.

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- Very much just speaking
the truth in your face.

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And I think a lot of that
has comes from the fact

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that this is from the voice of teenagers

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who don't really have
a filter or hold back.

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And most of the time we
don't give credit enough

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to the younger generation to
be a little bit more aware

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of things, like this is not okay.

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And what are we, we're just
gonna sit on our asses,

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not do anything about it.

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- The younger generation
is definitely like,

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"Hey, everyone, like
this is all messed up."

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- They're like always the voice of reason.

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And I feel like because of their age,

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they're just not really listened to,

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which is most of the time

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what our characters are going through too.

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So, and because of that, it's like,

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oh you're not gonna
listen to us when we talk?

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Well maybe we can sing about it

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and then get stuck in your head

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and then maybe it'll sink in, you know?

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- And then also, similar
to the original movie,

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is there like, are there
parallels in this series?

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Like, is there a Rizzo
pregnancy storyline?

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Is there like a Frenchy dropout storyline?

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Or is everything really like modernized?

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- I think it's more just everything,

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the characters are going
through their own thing.

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Somebody was asking me
the other day, was like,

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"so is your character like
this character from the movie?"

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I'm like, that's not really
what we're trying to do.

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It's like a big separation between like

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we would never try to
replicate in that way

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or fill those shoes
because it's impossible.

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And we're not meant to do that.

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- Do you have a favorite character from

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or a character that you most
connect to from the movie?

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- Oh, I think it'd have
to be like a combo.

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Can I do a combo?

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- Yeah, that's fine. I'll take a combo.

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- It would be like the
bright and quirkiness

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of Patty Simcox with the
goofiness of Frenchy.

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And like sometimes if I'm
like feeling myself enough

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on that day, sometimes the
sass of Rizzo, you know?

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- I think that's a great combo.

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- It's a really good mix,
it's a good mix. Yeah.

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