December 9, 2024 • 36 mins
For years people have talked about Drew Seeley singing in the first “High School Musical” film. Now, he’s telling Will and Sabrina the real story behind his infamous singing credit.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you everybody so much for joining us once again
on this Park Copper episode of Magical Rewind.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And we've got some Disney Royalty with us today.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And I always know that every week, I'm like, this
is a very special episode. But this is a very
special episode because I knew this guy without knowing this
guy as much as I should have known this guy.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You gotta explain that meaning I knew who he was,
but then I heard his voice on a whole bunch
of stuff that I wasn't really aware that I was hearing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
His voice on. Yes, So can you please help us?
Welcome to the pod.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Drew Sealing?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I know?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
You know? Living life? This is?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Be fun to revisit whatever we're going to revisit.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
There's so many Where shall we start, mister geez?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Just listening to Brandon Baker's podcast, and I don't know
if I can top monkey biting your face off and
sleeping with Jessica Alba.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So we didn't start pretty big.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
We did start with the pretty big bang with that
guy that he shocked the hell out of us with those.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Stories entertaining Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, I mean I think we first of all, welcome,
thank you so much for coming on here. We talked about,
you know, since we're we're kind of the podcast dedicated
to the Channel, you are the Channel royalty, and so
we need but.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's true we needed to have you on here.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But I think we have to start with how do
the two of you know each other so well?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
So well?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Gosh, I don't even know if I can remember where
it started, because so much of the stuff kind of
happened all around the same couple of years. I know
you were on the soundtrack of the fitness and dance videos.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I did be you you yea, which I didn't.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Know, and I'm sure you did. We're watching a movie
and Will what was the movie that I went, Oh,
my gosh, I'm listening to the soundtrack.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I'm hearing a song. I'm going, why do I know
that song? Wait? Why do I know movements to that song?
And it was your song?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
It was Danielle Pannabiker in it.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I don't written and weep there we go, thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yes, I don't think I've ever seen the movie, and
I don't think I even knew my song was going
to be in the movie.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
So it's uh so I'm watching it and I'm going,
how do I know this song? And I'm like, okay,
that's true. And then I go, wait, I know movements
and then I look it up and of course it
is the song that was on the b U soundtrack.
So that's how I knew choreography was the part.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And that was just yes, and it was so cool.
But it's in like one of her her scenes that.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
She's doing and she's being a celebrity, you know, and everything,
and it was just so wild. And then Stuck in
the Suburbs, of course, as soon as you get on
the camera, I'm like, oh my gosh, not only is
he doing the voice.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Of this aby at that point, well that's actually Disney Lord.
That is incorrect. I am not doing the voice in
that movie.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Really.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
No. No. I actually wrote a song for Stuck in
the Suburbs and submitted to the producers and they're like, no,
we're gonna go with what did Teraryn kill him? Right? No?
I believe he saying everything.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
And we interviewed him. He did not know you beat
him out because you were out there with the guitar.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
There's another Disney ghost singer out there that nobody knows it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Was me, okay, I yeah, no, wow, but I was David,
the desk clerk, which was fun.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
You were David, Yes, yeah, my big two lines that
was my introduction to Disney really, that one and Campus Confidential,
which is an ABC Family movie with Christy Carlson Romano
is the same year and Brandon Baker, so that's how
I know him.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Wait, wait a second, I'm sorry that Stuck in the
Suburbs your two lines on Stuck in the Suburbs.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That was the first time you ever worked for the channel.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I believe. So it was my first Disney movie, I believe. Yeah,
before I had moved to California, so I was still
living in Orlando at that point, I believe.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Okay, so how.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Did yeah, I guess we then should should ask how
did your journey to it all happen?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yes, it happened through uh a wonderful producer and gentlemen,
Ray Sham who's no longer with us, who wrote Gets
Your Head in the Game for the original high School
musical film when.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I was grapower first Disney Cheetah Girls.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
And we wrote a song with Prima j for Cheetah
Girls as well for Cheata girls too, amazing guy. I
was signed to his production company as as an artist,
like I moved out to La, you know, big dreams,
just like trying to you know, make a living. I'm like,
I'm gonna act, I'm gonna sing, I'm gonna do everything,
which was mostly I'm gonna work at PF Shang's uh
(05:08):
and Scoop hot Rice and just keep keep dreaming. But
Ray took a chance on me and signed me to
a deal and we were working on an EP for me,
and then he'd one one weekend he was just happened
to have like a little sidegig and he's like, hey,
you want to help me write this song for this
Disney dcom movie. So he brought me in to co
(05:29):
write get Your Head in the Game. And neither one
of us really, you know, thought that it was going
to turn into anything, you know, more than a typical
what you know whatever, like wrote it forgot about it
and then yeah there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Dang, so you you sang it for the demo too.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Then right right time, right place, Like when I was
listening to Brandon's thing just talking about like how there's
countless other great singers and actors, and he just happened
to be in the right the right age, the right place,
with the right skills. Like so much of this is luck,
you know, And I just lucked into meeting the right
people at the right time, and I was I was ready,
and when they needed somebody to fill in those missing vocals,
(06:08):
they knew I could do it and I was there
and ready.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So so yeah, no, wait, that's that's my question.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So you write the song, do you then like sing
the demo and record it and send it to Disney.
It's it's your voice doing that, So it's you don't
even know you're It's not even like an audition for you.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You're just wrong.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I did audition for high school musical too, actually, but
I was a full I think I'm three or four
years even older than Monique, so I think I like,
age wise, I sort of aged myself out of the
whole thing. And also Zach is a great actor. But
since they you know, Kenny knew me from that and
I'd submitted get your head in the game, they knew
(06:47):
what my voice sounded like. Uh. I've told this story
a few times. I've never I've never been given an
explanation of why they kept my voice on the soundtrack,
and I don't think zach was has ever been given
that explanation of why they didn't, So it just sort
of came out the way that it came out. And yeah,
reporters started calling me. I was still working at PF.
(07:08):
Chang's the first time High School Musical aired. I was
watching it on the bar top monitors like telling people, Hey,
that's my voice, and they're like, yeah, yeah, get me
my rice. So yeah, it was. It was pretty crazy.
It happened very suddenly. As I listened to Corbin's interview
with you guys as well, and like everything, I echo
everything he said. It was just like one day, you know,
(07:31):
more so for those guys, But I did get to
experience a little bit of that.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Well, you had to have started the calls had to
start coming in, right, I mean, you said Ray Champ,
but you worked with Robbie Neville kind of quiet.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Robby did, right.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Robbie was a big so at that time, Will they
had kind of like a a good, fairly small but
a good group of producers that were just at that
point doing the grind, putting, putting songs together. They were
finding songs for d coms, more so than they were
writing them. I mean, I feel like our songs for
(08:03):
the Cheetah Girls were all just previously submitted songs, and
then the second one was when they really started, especially
I think probably with Kenny's you know, influence of making
the songs actually fit what was exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Happening in the movie.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
And so Robbie Neville, I know you were on a
bunch of hit because I would always we would always
go in with these producers and we'd hear all these
different you know, demos, and you were on I mean,
I feel like you were just everywhere at that point.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I have Steve Vincent to thank for that, Like he
would just like plug me into like every you know
thing that was happening, and Ray and Greg cham like, yeah,
there was like a three or four year period there
where I think I just thought that that was kind
of normal. I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna be on disney
Mania four, five, six, seven and eight, like right. But
also like I didn't have a show on Disney, so
(08:51):
I wasn't like some of these other stars that are
singing songs on those albums, Like I just sort of
snuck in the side door. I stayed there for a while.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Do you have any songs that you might have wrote
that you didn't actually sing, but you wrote for either
other Disney artists or any other d coms that, like
people would might maybe be surprised to hear.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I wrote a song for Austin and Ali called who
You Are that I liked. That song got a lot
of from from Cheta Girls too, Prima.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Jay, didn't you do dance with me?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I did not write to dance with me? But yeah,
but you did? Think that was my very first single
and music video. And I believe that was like even
before High School Musical, like that was that was the.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
High School Musical came out right before we started filming it.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
This second, Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'm still I'm sorry, I'm trying to wrap my head
around this. I'm still I'm so confused.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Did you when High School Musical aired? Had you been
told that your voice was on it? Or okay, so
you knew okay, you knew you And.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I also wasn't like umpetting it from the rooftops, like
I was never told like you can't talk about this.
But also I was just like, yeah, this is my contribution.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You know though, that's a classy way to do it.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
But then somebody, somebody from the Hollywood Reporter found out
and called my manager and said, wait a minute, who's
Drew Seeley. You know, because my name was listed on
the credits on the album or on the not pre
Spotify iTunes whatever. So yeah, I mean it just kind
of came out, and then once people knew that, it
sort of snowballed into some other opportunities. And yeah, you know,
(10:34):
Disney has been good to me over the years. I
got to I got to do Prince eric On in
The Little Mermaid on Broadway. Yeah, shortly after that, all
because of that, and then the the High School Musical, uh,
South America and North American tours with all the.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Cast, all those tours. That's right, I remember that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm sorry, but please tell me you're not still working
at PF. Chang's at the time you're doing all these
these tours.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
No, I quit that. I quit that.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
If you've got writing credit on got to get your
head in the game.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I mean, that's the gift that keeps on giving. Yeah,
I would, I would think.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
So those rots are still locking in because that is
definitely my favorite song from that that first movie. So
it's just down the life of that I love all
in this together. I know that's a fan favorite, but
mine was get your ahead in the game for sure.
And it's not just because I love you. It's literally
the best song on the movie.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
And I finally did get to learn all the choreography
and like do everything from the film on the tour,
which was fun because live on stage every night there
was basketball as like hitting people in the front.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Row, Like, oh god, no, you don't get it every time,
no way.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
So I got to live my life vicariously that way.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yes, when did you get to meet the cast? I mean,
did you? Did you get a chance to meet with everybody?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
And again I was. I was never told why they
did it the way that they did it, but I
think that they were within about read four weeks of
shooting the actual film and they had me and not Zach,
me and the rest of the movie cast all go
into the studio for like four days straight and record
all the songs together. So yeah, I knew that I
(12:13):
was doing that, okay, but not why.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
But but yeah, was that awkward with the Like did
they ask I hit.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
It off with those? I hit it off with them.
They were there's they were so lovely and I.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Still what's going on?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I feel hard to remember. I'm sure they did. They're
probably like, who is this guy?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I like, does anyone else notice that I supposed to
be here and he's not?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I do think. I do think Vanessa resented it a
little bit when I was on tour, because she was like,
I want to sink to my boyfriend every night, not
this guy. I didn't feel a little of that.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Okay, I can understand that.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
For sure, but yeah, it was. It was so much fun.
And Lucas and Corbyn and I still talk pretty frequently
in mon.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I bet they're both so awesome. And Monique just had
a birthday. I mean she she's just such a beautiful person,
so fun. I got to tour with her for a
hot second. We both run the Dancing Star store. Yeah,
and that's when I met Lucas and I met Lucas's
sister who used to travel around with Monique quite a bit.
So everyone was a very tight knit group. It was
(13:17):
super cool, such a small world.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Yeah, I just did. I did Jersey Boys and Kinky
Boots with Mark Ballas in the last few years.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Yeah, yes, absolutely, that is very cool.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
So what I mean. High school musical comes out, it's
a ridiculous smash hit.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And then you go on the tour.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
What is your response like when you know you're on
stage every night singing for people.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Well, I really uh, they kind of did me dirty
there because I had to open the show. So there
it was a I don't know if either of you
saw it, but there was a backlit stage right so
you'd see a shadow walking up, living in my own world,
walking up the shadow shadow guy, and then the lights
hit me and the audience is always like ah, silence,
(14:08):
And I had to sing half of that song alone
until Vanessa came on. So I sort of had to
like reprove myself and resell myself every night. And there
was like that initial lyell and then like the pullback
and then people were like, okay, well we're here.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
It was tough, man.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
They could have helped you out with like and here
comes truthy. They could have said it up. They gave
me a better.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
They did give me my own little like section later
on in the show where I got to do dance
with me and some other stuff, but the beginning was hard.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, yeah, that is tough.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
That is tough, especially because kids just don't get I mean,
like talk talk about the age demo of who you
were really getting a chance to perform. I mean I
loved our age demo that the Channel brings to what
a concert is, you know, and so they don't really
get that's not something that they understand, you know, whether
(15:03):
or not they had heard that those were Zach's vocals
or not.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
I think there was a lot of confusion too though,
because they were like, but it sounds just like.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
The right, that's the thing is. It's like, wait, that's it,
that's the voice, So something's not mixing.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I'm just grateful. Yeah, whenever Zach was busy doing something,
I was the filling. I was just like the go
to guy. So I owned that as long as they
led me. It was really fun.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So you're on tour, you're going you're going around, you're
singing all this stuff. Did you ever think that the
Channel was going to come back and be like, look,
you're doing so much for us. We got to get
your movie, we're gonna get your show, We're going to
get you something.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Well, you know, in all honesty, yeah, Like there's always
that I think I don't know if I painted myself
into a box as a singer or if that was
just sort of how I was viewed, maybe because they
they they were quick to call when there was an album,
you know, release, or like the songs for something. But yeah,
I mean, I've been an actor in my whole life too,
(16:02):
and I was auditioning for all of these things. And
I got really close on camp Rock too with a
couple other guys, like tested for it with Kenny and
did the whole day audition like you do. And then
I believe instead of it was going to be a one,
one guy role, and then they decided to turn that
role into the Jonas brothers.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Ah, you're good, but you can't play all three of
the Jonas.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Yeah, I can't compete with three brothers.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
That is.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
You know. They did bring me in for their Broadway show,
which was awesome, but yeah, I would have loved to,
you know, play play something on one of their shows.
You know, I'm still around. You know, I could be
a coach. I could be a dad.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yeah, are you living that dad?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Live?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
You love it?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
I am. I've got a beautiful five year old yeah,
I yeah, Wow, my life I.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Just That's amazing to me.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Now, So were you a Disney and Disney Channel fan
before all this stuff happened?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Uh? Well, I was, like I was twenty four when
High School Movival came out, so you know, it wasn't
what I watched on my downtime, but I but I
I was a fan of you know. I grew up
in Orlando too, so like Disney was Yeah, my was
my life from like fourteen to twenty two, twenty three
when I moved back to La So yeah, I've loved
Disney forever. But you know, usually I gravitate tour like
(17:14):
the classic Disney films, you know, like Lion King, a
Little Mermaid, Like, yeah, all the music from that kind
of era is like what really like gets me in
the heartstrings? You know? Yeah? So were you?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I mean if you had to pick at the time
when you were starting your career, if somebody said to
you what are you? Would you have said, I'm an actor,
I'm a singer. Would you have said I'm an entertainer?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Like I still have trouble answering that question, Like I
find like where they intersect is like where I thrive
and where the best experiences I've had in my career
I've come from. I did this movie called Love Struck
Deborah Martin Chase produced randomly hm, but that was yeah, singing, dancing, acting,
all the Broadways, the Broadway stuff. Yeah. I even did
(17:52):
a Christmas movie a couple of years ago called Christmas
Movie Magic that ended with like a big Freda Staire
Ginger Rogers dance number the snow while singing. So like,
I still get sent those kind of scripts, and that's
kind of what I love doing. So so huge. You're
Hugh Jackman, that is that is like he's one of
my ultimate idols. Yeah, like that's the girl.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I love that connection. Yes, I am here for that.
That's amazing.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
That's awesome. Yeah, I guess I gotta start working out. Yeah,
you did get.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
A chance to do all three right in the movie
you did with Selena Gomez, The Another Cinderella Story. We
did get to see your triple threat action happening there.
What was it like working with Selena?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Yeah, I don't want to think that like I peaked there,
but I feel like that was like the pinnacle of
like what I like to do, you know, singing, dancing, acting,
and I also wrote all the music from the film,
so I got.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
To Oh my god, I got to be.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
The creative on that side of it. Co wrote, I'm
not going to take entire credit, but yeah Wow, because
I used to because I was in a boy band
in high school, like in real life back in Orlando.
So I had all those like boy band melodies in
my head, and when they were working on the music,
I was like, you know, I'm the pop star in
this movie. Let me let me contribute and do that.
And they did Yeah wowand new Ground.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
With a you and you and you ground Okay, Okay, we're.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Trying to be in sync meets Jodasy was like our
log line.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Okay, and did you have as as in sync? Did?
They all kind of had looks if you will? Were you?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I was?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I was the blonde frosted tip one. Okay, but it
was it was like it was a multicultural band. We
we wrapped. It was a little more like urban for
lack of a better word, than in sync and Backstreet
Boys were trying to do and we weren't signed to
trans connor with. We were sort of like the the
(19:52):
underdog group. Okay, but I did it for three years.
We released an album independently and toured the Southeast and
it was really fun. It was sort of school in
learning how to sing and harmonize and really read the
kind of music that I have been since.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
So wow, I did not know that it's.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Pretty embarrassing black pleather pants.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I'm talking about en G.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yeah. Yeah, it's out there on the interwebs.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Okay, they see it. I see it.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I'm so happy. I have to ask because I've asked
other people this and they all give kind of an
interesting answer because they're all kind of around.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
The same area. How does one write a.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Song a man?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I think everyone comes to it differently depending on what
their instrument is. Right For me, I I don't. I
can write songs just on a guitar by myself, but
I much prefer collaborating, you know, so a lot of
times I'll be the lyric and top line guy, and
then I'll work with the producer and hash it out
that way. But lyrics never come first for me. It's
(21:06):
always melky like. If I'm listening to a song, I'll
I'll go for a run, I'll do something physical where
I get out of my head and I'll just hum
melodies into my phone. And then I'll listen back later
and I'll be like, oh, yep, that's the chorus. Yep,
that could be a verse. And then I work backwards
and find like phrases and things that fit into it,
and sort of like that's my method anyway. It's sort
(21:26):
of organically comes together quicker than if I try to
like force a this is what it has to be about.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Right, you know?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Wow, unless I get it, unless I get a brief
from Disney that says you're a you're an octopus who
just brobbed a bank, and you're you know, like some
kind of you know, because those come through with those
animated shows, And then like you got to be very
specific with that.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Right, yes, And do you find I was gonna say,
do you find that to be a little bit more
difficult because you're you are not in like a super
open space, You're kind of more in a specific fig zone.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I find it'd be easier. I like working within a framework.
It's sort of a narrows the monkey brain in and
it's like, okay, like here's here's what you can choose from.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
That's cool, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I do like those I'm doing a lot more of
that nowadays. I'm just trying to do something that my
daughter now will think is cool, you know, because she's not.
She doesn't watch any of this dcom stuff from twenty
years ago. Yeah, if I can write some songs on
one of the shows she's obsessed with.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
You gotta get yourself on some Disney Plus with her
and she might be super stoked about it. It is
making a comeback like nothing other. Have you felt the
wave of nostalgia that has swept with Disney Plus now
airing all the d coms that used to be just
on the channel. Are you feeling that that nostalgia.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
But a little bit. Yeah, everything comes back around, and
yes it's open to a new generation, which is which
is cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, Well you know what I hope comes back around
is she's gonna run by new ground.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Hey you found something.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
We're looking we're looking at.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I'm looking at the YouTube video right here and the
picture right here.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I have no regrets, should you?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Guys? Regrets? Awesome?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
When you were growing up, who were kind of some
of your musical influences?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I mean, where did you really find your love of music?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
That's good boys to men, baby bassed John b like
like early Uh yeah, that that kind of era of
stuff is like what I really gravitated toward. Also, uh,
Smashing Pumpkins, sound Garden. They're going on like like I was,
I was equal parts nineties grunge and like early two
thousand's R and B and neo soul too, like like
(23:38):
Lauren Hill Music soul child. I just saw him in
la like six months ago. It was a great show.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Yeah, so and yeah and then show twos, So who
am I? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
You're well rounded. That's what's cool.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I mean, that's what obviously is amazing for Disney to
be able to come to you, and that's where you're
able to pull from all of their different genres that
you like to be able to give Disney, You're an octopus, Like.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
You're able to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
What's going to rhyme with bank robbery and octopus? Like
I'm still I still have that character in my head,
like sabbery.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
All right, Well, we obviously can't let this interview go
by without bringing up One Tree Hill, which is another iconic.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, we hit it all.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Oh yeah, obviously another iconic TV show with rabid fans.
And I gotta know, this is the question who would
you say were the most passionate fans, your HSM fans
or your One Tree Hill fans.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
My personally, my most passionate fans were my Another Currella
Story fans, because that's what people see me on screen
and like know that I'm a part of high school musical.
I'm sort of been tangentially involved in One Tree Hill.
I was on two episodes and one of them I
was edited out of completely.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
So oh, no, no way.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I do One Tree Hill conventions because they'll have me
and they're fun. Yeah, but a lot of times people
will show up and know me from other things, but
they'll be like you were in One Tree Hill, Like what,
I gotta go back and watch this, so sort of
a blink and you'll miss me situation.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
I feel like you see it a lot when you
look up what you've done in your resume and everything.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
So that's shocking. I didn't know it was only one episode.
It made it seem like you were on for like.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
A sea I've I've milked it.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yes, nice? Why not?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Why?
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah? I was in Wilmington about a month ago and
played in a charity basketball game with all the cast
members and for the twentieth anniversary or maybe.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Well was that like it was great after so long?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
The fans are rabbit. Well most of the cast too,
are like, who are you? What season.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Was my boy?
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Yes? Yes, ye, he's a he's a he just yeah
he just had a kid too, didn't he.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah he was a good dude, terrific guy, terrific guy.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah. You know, I've just been kicking around the block
and lots of different different places. So One Tree Hill
was was a very fun Dawson's Creek was right before that,
and that's actually what got me my like sag card
and how I became a professional actor. Oh really, so
One Tree Hill was my second job right after that. Okay,
but uh yeah I'm not I'm not just like Corbyn.
(26:22):
I'm not a very good basketball player. A lot of faking.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It to play basketball.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Ye, between that and get your head in the game,
it's like, it's I gotta learn, it's I have to.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
That just seemed when he said that I was I
didn't even believe it for a second. I thought he
was completely just trying to Now you telling me you
can't really jump rope, which you also did a song
in that movie jump in I'm ready you also did
a song in that movie, him telling me I wasn't
a great like I'm not actually a great double dutcher, Like, okay,
(26:59):
I could probably you know that that's got to be hard,
and not that basketball is not hard, but it just
he did not seem like he wasn't.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
A good one at all. That was that was so weird, strange, strange.
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I hate I hate to do this to you because
I know it's like picking between your children.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But what's your favorite song you've ever written?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Oh? Man, that's a that's a really hard question. Probably.
I released my own album in twenty ten called The Resolution,
and Uh, as much as I love all my Disney stuff,
there's a couple of songs on there that I like,
accept in speech and why can't you say that your mind?
I would, I would say, go check out some of
(27:39):
that music to see the other side of me. Uh yeah,
But yeah, man, that's really hard. I know that's a no.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That was a great answer, because it's got to be
what's personal to you, So I you know that.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I think New Classic was a really fun one because
that really like, yeah, I got to you know. It
was in the film and I got to do a
music video for it afterwards, and it was a duet
with Selena Gomez. Like, how many people get to say
they got to do that?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You know?
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Yeah, that's I'm always gonna have that on my resus
on my business.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
You got you got to plate frame, you.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Got to do you got to do it with Selena
Gomez And just being able to say that is kind
of the coolest thing. Yeah, okay, So another question, then,
you've been doing this for so long and you've been
doing it with the Channel, have you in your mind
come up with your own musical that you've wanted to
do for Disney?
Speaker 6 (28:33):
That's a good and tell me why it would be
a Christmas movie?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
How do the all these funny things come together? The dance,
there's there's downhill skiing who I don't know know. I'm
Canadian originally, so maybe some angle of that. Yeah, yeah, no,
I I I've been I'm gonna think on that.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I was running. If you're like, no, I got don't.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Have ready to go yet.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
But hey, once you get that, you did absolutely contact
Disney did.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Write I did write a Getting the Band Back Together
boy band comedy script. Okay, based on that experience of
my new Ground experience, but it was a little more raunchy,
so I'd have to I'd have to bring it to
Disney disneyfy yeah, yeah, but that could be funny. You know.
I don't know if I've seen that on the channel specifically. Yeah,
very funny.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh man, okay, well I have so fun guys. Yeah, no,
this has been amazing and we we I have. I
have one final question for you here. I know that
you came later to to Disney Channel because you're a
little older, but when you were growing up, what was
your favorite Disney movie.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Growing up? Probably? Yeah, probably The Lion King or The
Little Mermaid beating the Beast. That just yeah, that era,
that was That was it? Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
That is one of my favorite parts of my daughter,
who's four now falling in love with Disney is I
don't mind that The Little Mermaid is on.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Three times a day.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
It's great.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
One of my favorite one.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Of my favorite parts of being a mom to a
little kid that is also a Disney kid, and I
just those movies I could watch over and over again.
I did when I was little, and I am fine
doing it again as an adult, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
So fun seeing them being reimagined now too, like live
action and just updated. Yes, yes, because the music is
still amazing, you know, timeless.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Okay, I'm sorry, I do have another question. I apologize.
You want to keep you, We want to keep you
on forever.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
What if you could take one part in anything Disney?
What would what would you want to play? Because I mean,
like Eric, and you know Prince Eric is amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Uh, you know, but I.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Mean you can you can have any role, any Disney
role you want.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
What do you do? Hm? Hmm is Hamilton Disney because
it's on Disney Place.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Yeah, that'll count.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
That'll count. Kind of the King at some point. I've
always loved I always think that would be really a
lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Oh that's that's a great answer. Oh man, Well, thank
you so much for joining.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Seeing you again.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Wow, yeah, this is so fun.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
It's been years.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Do you have any uh any We're going to go
check out obviously new Ground and all the other stuff
you're doing, but do you have any uh any.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
New music we could listen to? Any stuff?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Uh? Yeah, I'm constantly putting stuff out on my my
own Spotify, you know, as an artist, and then pitching
songs and writing songs for different shows. I just I
have a new song on the the Disney Junior iron
Man show that's coming up. So yeah, here and there,
my name, my name is kicking around. But uh yeah,
mostly the last couple of years, I've been more focused
(31:56):
on family life. You know, my my daughter's five. Sure
times going so fast as you as you are aware too,
I'm sure Sabrina is just like, yeah, I want to
be here and be president. I miss any of it.
So doing a little less professionally but feeling good.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I love that. Where can we Where can we stay
updated with all your stuff? You said Spotify? Yes, on Instagram?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Instagram?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
What's your handle on YouTube?
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Is just my name just Andrew Seely, So that's probably
the best place.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
And sorry, tell me you're tell me the album you
did in twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
One more time.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
So I want to called the Resolution, Okay, cool?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I want to listen to those songs.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Perfect.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Yeah, really a pleasure talking to you guys.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
You as well.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I hope you don't mind. We're going to have you
back at some point. So we got a lot looking.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Forward, took about sounds good.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Thank you, Drew, Bye guys, Bye, yeah. I mean, well
you're you're one, so I mean, you're a triple threat.
But I couldn't imagine having that much talent where it's
just like I'm gonna sing, I'm gonna dance, I'm gonna
write a song, I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I mean, it's he oozes.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
It, he oozes talent he has.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
I mean, I like, even on the Channel, he didn't
even get as much as they did use him for
so much they like he said, they sort of it
seemed like pinhold him into just being a music artist
and head him.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
A little dirty, a little bit because.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Hainey bit I would say.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
I mean, I just don't think they necessarily used him
as much as they could have in the sense of,
you know, but you got to think too, I mean,
he looked so much like maybe not now when you
just saw him, but when he was younger, he definitely
had that same look of the of the zach Effron
and yeah, and so that might.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Have been what it is. But he he was a
great actor, a great dancer.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Like there's just so much he had so much talent
at that time that I don't think that they tapped
into all of it, you know.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
And it's also but just with I mean, how his
age now, he's age and talent, he's perfect musical Disney dad.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Oh first, how do you cast that.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Guy first in some huge thing and then go cast
this kid? I mean, how is that guy not in
in the you know, any of the zombie movies or
any of the stuff we've seen before.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Totally there's still time though, well, I mean, like he said,
he's it sounds like he's you know, and I can
I can appreciate it because I definitely did that when
I first had Monroe, and this was my first opportunity
to really jump back and feel like I'm back in
the industry in some sort of taking the time and
just kind of wanting to be a dad.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Because his life, as you can see, I mean, he
was going on the tours, he was getting put into
different things. They were pulling at him.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
They just didn't put him in like a you know,
starring you know, and and taking him into the world
and the next TV shows in that next level. But
he was working for at least a decade and a
half NonStop, you know, And so I love that he's
he's done that with his daughter and had that time
and you know, I doubt that's the last we're going
to see.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, hopefully, Yeah in one of the one of the
kind of Descendants movies or something coming out. How do
you not make that guy one of the princes And
it's like he's the dad of whoever?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I mean, my god, Yeah, it's perfect, he's perfect.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
All right, Well, thank you Drew Silly for joining us,
and thank you everybody for joining us for our Park
Copper episode.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
What cool.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I wanted to talk to him for a while, so
that was that was really neat, just to kind of
hear a different career Disney wise, right, Yeah, And.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
It was interesting to see that he said they were
we're trying to find this this timeline of what happened
with the first high School Musical. It seems like they
must have been rehearsing or at least filming a little
bit before and then they pulled them to record, so
we know that they were pulled. It wasn't initially done
before anything.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
So that's because I don't think anybody knew what the
hell high School Musical was going to be until.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It it was, and then it was wow explosion exactly.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
We keep getting more and more info on that and
that's so cool.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
As we get the info, we're of course going to
keep giving it to you. So thank you everybody for
joining us, and uh yeah, we'll see you over on
our other feed. As we keep watching some movies, some
lately have been amazing, some haven't not so much.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
But not one with Drew Sealey, I'll tell you that
they've all been great.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
You get Drew in there, you got a good film.
So thanks everybody for joining us, and we will see
you next time.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Bye bye
Thank you everybody so much for joining us once again
on this Park Copper episode of Magical Rewind.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And we've got some Disney Royalty with us today.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And I always know that every week, I'm like, this
is a very special episode. But this is a very
special episode because I knew this guy without knowing this
guy as much as I should have known this guy.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You gotta explain that meaning I knew who he was,
but then I heard his voice on a whole bunch
of stuff that I wasn't really aware that I was hearing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
His voice on. Yes, So can you please help us?
Welcome to the pod.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Drew Sealing?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I know?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
You know? Living life? This is?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Be fun to revisit whatever we're going to revisit.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
There's so many Where shall we start, mister geez?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Just listening to Brandon Baker's podcast, and I don't know
if I can top monkey biting your face off and
sleeping with Jessica Alba.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So we didn't start pretty big.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
We did start with the pretty big bang with that
guy that he shocked the hell out of us with those.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Stories entertaining Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, I mean I think we first of all, welcome,
thank you so much for coming on here. We talked about,
you know, since we're we're kind of the podcast dedicated
to the Channel, you are the Channel royalty, and so
we need but.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's true we needed to have you on here.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But I think we have to start with how do
the two of you know each other so well?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
So well?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Gosh, I don't even know if I can remember where
it started, because so much of the stuff kind of
happened all around the same couple of years. I know
you were on the soundtrack of the fitness and dance videos.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I did be you you yea, which I didn't.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Know, and I'm sure you did. We're watching a movie
and Will what was the movie that I went, Oh,
my gosh, I'm listening to the soundtrack.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I'm hearing a song. I'm going, why do I know
that song? Wait? Why do I know movements to that song?
And it was your song?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
It was Danielle Pannabiker in it.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I don't written and weep there we go, thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yes, I don't think I've ever seen the movie, and
I don't think I even knew my song was going
to be in the movie.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
So it's uh so I'm watching it and I'm going,
how do I know this song? And I'm like, okay,
that's true. And then I go, wait, I know movements
and then I look it up and of course it
is the song that was on the b U soundtrack.
So that's how I knew choreography was the part.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And that was just yes, and it was so cool.
But it's in like one of her her scenes that.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
She's doing and she's being a celebrity, you know, and everything,
and it was just so wild. And then Stuck in
the Suburbs, of course, as soon as you get on
the camera, I'm like, oh my gosh, not only is
he doing the voice.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Of this aby at that point, well that's actually Disney Lord.
That is incorrect. I am not doing the voice in
that movie.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Really.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
No. No. I actually wrote a song for Stuck in
the Suburbs and submitted to the producers and they're like, no,
we're gonna go with what did Teraryn kill him? Right? No?
I believe he saying everything.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
And we interviewed him. He did not know you beat
him out because you were out there with the guitar.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
There's another Disney ghost singer out there that nobody knows it.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Was me, okay, I yeah, no, wow, but I was David,
the desk clerk, which was fun.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
You were David, Yes, yeah, my big two lines that
was my introduction to Disney really, that one and Campus Confidential,
which is an ABC Family movie with Christy Carlson Romano
is the same year and Brandon Baker, so that's how
I know him.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Wait, wait a second, I'm sorry that Stuck in the
Suburbs your two lines on Stuck in the Suburbs.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That was the first time you ever worked for the channel.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I believe. So it was my first Disney movie, I believe. Yeah,
before I had moved to California, so I was still
living in Orlando at that point, I believe.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Okay, so how.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Did yeah, I guess we then should should ask how
did your journey to it all happen?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yes, it happened through uh a wonderful producer and gentlemen,
Ray Sham who's no longer with us, who wrote Gets
Your Head in the Game for the original high School
musical film when.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I was grapower first Disney Cheetah Girls.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
And we wrote a song with Prima j for Cheetah
Girls as well for Cheata girls too, amazing guy. I
was signed to his production company as as an artist,
like I moved out to La, you know, big dreams,
just like trying to you know, make a living. I'm like,
I'm gonna act, I'm gonna sing, I'm gonna do everything,
which was mostly I'm gonna work at PF Shang's uh
(05:08):
and Scoop hot Rice and just keep keep dreaming. But
Ray took a chance on me and signed me to
a deal and we were working on an EP for me,
and then he'd one one weekend he was just happened
to have like a little sidegig and he's like, hey,
you want to help me write this song for this
Disney dcom movie. So he brought me in to co
(05:29):
write get Your Head in the Game. And neither one
of us really, you know, thought that it was going
to turn into anything, you know, more than a typical
what you know whatever, like wrote it forgot about it
and then yeah there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Dang, so you you sang it for the demo too.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Then right right time, right place, Like when I was
listening to Brandon's thing just talking about like how there's
countless other great singers and actors, and he just happened
to be in the right the right age, the right place,
with the right skills. Like so much of this is luck,
you know, And I just lucked into meeting the right
people at the right time, and I was I was ready,
and when they needed somebody to fill in those missing vocals,
(06:08):
they knew I could do it and I was there
and ready.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So so yeah, no, wait, that's that's my question.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So you write the song, do you then like sing
the demo and record it and send it to Disney.
It's it's your voice doing that, So it's you don't
even know you're It's not even like an audition for you.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You're just wrong.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I did audition for high school musical too, actually, but
I was a full I think I'm three or four
years even older than Monique, so I think I like,
age wise, I sort of aged myself out of the
whole thing. And also Zach is a great actor. But
since they you know, Kenny knew me from that and
I'd submitted get your head in the game, they knew
(06:47):
what my voice sounded like. Uh. I've told this story
a few times. I've never I've never been given an
explanation of why they kept my voice on the soundtrack,
and I don't think zach was has ever been given
that explanation of why they didn't, So it just sort
of came out the way that it came out. And yeah,
reporters started calling me. I was still working at PF.
(07:08):
Chang's the first time High School Musical aired. I was
watching it on the bar top monitors like telling people, Hey,
that's my voice, and they're like, yeah, yeah, get me
my rice. So yeah, it was. It was pretty crazy.
It happened very suddenly. As I listened to Corbin's interview
with you guys as well, and like everything, I echo
everything he said. It was just like one day, you know,
(07:31):
more so for those guys, But I did get to
experience a little bit of that.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Well, you had to have started the calls had to
start coming in, right, I mean, you said Ray Champ,
but you worked with Robbie Neville kind of quiet.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Robby did, right.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Robbie was a big so at that time, Will they
had kind of like a a good, fairly small but
a good group of producers that were just at that
point doing the grind, putting, putting songs together. They were
finding songs for d coms, more so than they were
writing them. I mean, I feel like our songs for
(08:03):
the Cheetah Girls were all just previously submitted songs, and
then the second one was when they really started, especially
I think probably with Kenny's you know, influence of making
the songs actually fit what was exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Happening in the movie.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
And so Robbie Neville, I know you were on a
bunch of hit because I would always we would always
go in with these producers and we'd hear all these
different you know, demos, and you were on I mean,
I feel like you were just everywhere at that point.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I have Steve Vincent to thank for that, Like he
would just like plug me into like every you know
thing that was happening, and Ray and Greg cham like, yeah,
there was like a three or four year period there
where I think I just thought that that was kind
of normal. I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna be on disney
Mania four, five, six, seven and eight, like right. But
also like I didn't have a show on Disney, so
(08:51):
I wasn't like some of these other stars that are
singing songs on those albums, Like I just sort of
snuck in the side door. I stayed there for a while.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Do you have any songs that you might have wrote
that you didn't actually sing, but you wrote for either
other Disney artists or any other d coms that, like
people would might maybe be surprised to hear.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I wrote a song for Austin and Ali called who
You Are that I liked. That song got a lot
of from from Cheta Girls too, Prima.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Jay, didn't you do dance with me?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I did not write to dance with me? But yeah,
but you did? Think that was my very first single
and music video. And I believe that was like even
before High School Musical, like that was that was the.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
High School Musical came out right before we started filming it.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
This second, Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'm still I'm sorry, I'm trying to wrap my head
around this. I'm still I'm so confused.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Did you when High School Musical aired? Had you been
told that your voice was on it? Or okay, so
you knew okay, you knew you And.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I also wasn't like umpetting it from the rooftops, like
I was never told like you can't talk about this.
But also I was just like, yeah, this is my contribution.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You know though, that's a classy way to do it.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
But then somebody, somebody from the Hollywood Reporter found out
and called my manager and said, wait a minute, who's
Drew Seeley. You know, because my name was listed on
the credits on the album or on the not pre
Spotify iTunes whatever. So yeah, I mean it just kind
of came out, and then once people knew that, it
sort of snowballed into some other opportunities. And yeah, you know,
(10:34):
Disney has been good to me over the years. I
got to I got to do Prince eric On in
The Little Mermaid on Broadway. Yeah, shortly after that, all
because of that, and then the the High School Musical, uh,
South America and North American tours with all the.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Cast, all those tours. That's right, I remember that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm sorry, but please tell me you're not still working
at PF. Chang's at the time you're doing all these
these tours.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
No, I quit that. I quit that.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
If you've got writing credit on got to get your
head in the game.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I mean, that's the gift that keeps on giving. Yeah,
I would, I would think.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
So those rots are still locking in because that is
definitely my favorite song from that that first movie. So
it's just down the life of that I love all
in this together. I know that's a fan favorite, but
mine was get your ahead in the game for sure.
And it's not just because I love you. It's literally
the best song on the movie.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
And I finally did get to learn all the choreography
and like do everything from the film on the tour,
which was fun because live on stage every night there
was basketball as like hitting people in the front.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Row, Like, oh god, no, you don't get it every time,
no way.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
So I got to live my life vicariously that way.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yes, when did you get to meet the cast? I mean,
did you? Did you get a chance to meet with everybody?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
And again I was. I was never told why they
did it the way that they did it, but I
think that they were within about read four weeks of
shooting the actual film and they had me and not Zach,
me and the rest of the movie cast all go
into the studio for like four days straight and record
all the songs together. So yeah, I knew that I
(12:13):
was doing that, okay, but not why.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
But but yeah, was that awkward with the Like did
they ask I hit.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
It off with those? I hit it off with them.
They were there's they were so lovely and I.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Still what's going on?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I feel hard to remember. I'm sure they did. They're
probably like, who is this guy?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I like, does anyone else notice that I supposed to
be here and he's not?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I do think. I do think Vanessa resented it a
little bit when I was on tour, because she was like,
I want to sink to my boyfriend every night, not
this guy. I didn't feel a little of that.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Okay, I can understand that.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
For sure, but yeah, it was. It was so much fun.
And Lucas and Corbyn and I still talk pretty frequently
in mon.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I bet they're both so awesome. And Monique just had
a birthday. I mean she she's just such a beautiful person,
so fun. I got to tour with her for a
hot second. We both run the Dancing Star store. Yeah,
and that's when I met Lucas and I met Lucas's
sister who used to travel around with Monique quite a bit.
So everyone was a very tight knit group. It was
(13:17):
super cool, such a small world.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Yeah, I just did. I did Jersey Boys and Kinky
Boots with Mark Ballas in the last few years.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Yeah, yes, absolutely, that is very cool.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
So what I mean. High school musical comes out, it's
a ridiculous smash hit.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And then you go on the tour.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
What is your response like when you know you're on
stage every night singing for people.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Well, I really uh, they kind of did me dirty
there because I had to open the show. So there
it was a I don't know if either of you
saw it, but there was a backlit stage right so
you'd see a shadow walking up, living in my own world,
walking up the shadow shadow guy, and then the lights
hit me and the audience is always like ah, silence,
(14:08):
And I had to sing half of that song alone
until Vanessa came on. So I sort of had to
like reprove myself and resell myself every night. And there
was like that initial lyell and then like the pullback
and then people were like, okay, well we're here.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
It was tough, man.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
They could have helped you out with like and here
comes truthy. They could have said it up. They gave
me a better.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
They did give me my own little like section later
on in the show where I got to do dance
with me and some other stuff, but the beginning was hard.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, yeah, that is tough.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
That is tough, especially because kids just don't get I mean,
like talk talk about the age demo of who you
were really getting a chance to perform. I mean I
loved our age demo that the Channel brings to what
a concert is, you know, and so they don't really
get that's not something that they understand, you know, whether
(15:03):
or not they had heard that those were Zach's vocals
or not.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
I think there was a lot of confusion too though,
because they were like, but it sounds just like.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
The right, that's the thing is. It's like, wait, that's it,
that's the voice, So something's not mixing.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I'm just grateful. Yeah, whenever Zach was busy doing something,
I was the filling. I was just like the go
to guy. So I owned that as long as they
led me. It was really fun.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So you're on tour, you're going you're going around, you're
singing all this stuff. Did you ever think that the
Channel was going to come back and be like, look,
you're doing so much for us. We got to get
your movie, we're gonna get your show, We're going to
get you something.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Well, you know, in all honesty, yeah, Like there's always
that I think I don't know if I painted myself
into a box as a singer or if that was
just sort of how I was viewed, maybe because they
they they were quick to call when there was an album,
you know, release, or like the songs for something. But yeah,
I mean, I've been an actor in my whole life too,
(16:02):
and I was auditioning for all of these things. And
I got really close on camp Rock too with a
couple other guys, like tested for it with Kenny and
did the whole day audition like you do. And then
I believe instead of it was going to be a one,
one guy role, and then they decided to turn that
role into the Jonas brothers.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Ah, you're good, but you can't play all three of
the Jonas.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Yeah, I can't compete with three brothers.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
That is.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
You know. They did bring me in for their Broadway show,
which was awesome, but yeah, I would have loved to,
you know, play play something on one of their shows.
You know, I'm still around. You know, I could be
a coach. I could be a dad.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yeah, are you living that dad?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Live?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
You love it?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
I am. I've got a beautiful five year old yeah,
I yeah, Wow, my life I.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Just That's amazing to me.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Now, So were you a Disney and Disney Channel fan
before all this stuff happened?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Uh? Well, I was, like I was twenty four when
High School Movival came out, so you know, it wasn't
what I watched on my downtime, but I but I
I was a fan of you know. I grew up
in Orlando too, so like Disney was Yeah, my was
my life from like fourteen to twenty two, twenty three
when I moved back to La So yeah, I've loved
Disney forever. But you know, usually I gravitate tour like
(17:14):
the classic Disney films, you know, like Lion King, a
Little Mermaid, Like, yeah, all the music from that kind
of era is like what really like gets me in
the heartstrings? You know? Yeah? So were you?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I mean if you had to pick at the time
when you were starting your career, if somebody said to
you what are you? Would you have said, I'm an actor,
I'm a singer. Would you have said I'm an entertainer?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Like I still have trouble answering that question, Like I
find like where they intersect is like where I thrive
and where the best experiences I've had in my career
I've come from. I did this movie called Love Struck
Deborah Martin Chase produced randomly hm, but that was yeah, singing, dancing, acting,
all the Broadways, the Broadway stuff. Yeah. I even did
(17:52):
a Christmas movie a couple of years ago called Christmas
Movie Magic that ended with like a big Freda Staire
Ginger Rogers dance number the snow while singing. So like,
I still get sent those kind of scripts, and that's
kind of what I love doing. So so huge. You're
Hugh Jackman, that is that is like he's one of
my ultimate idols. Yeah, like that's the girl.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I love that connection. Yes, I am here for that.
That's amazing.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
That's awesome. Yeah, I guess I gotta start working out. Yeah,
you did get.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
A chance to do all three right in the movie
you did with Selena Gomez, The Another Cinderella Story. We
did get to see your triple threat action happening there.
What was it like working with Selena?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Yeah, I don't want to think that like I peaked there,
but I feel like that was like the pinnacle of
like what I like to do, you know, singing, dancing, acting,
and I also wrote all the music from the film,
so I got.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
To Oh my god, I got to be.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
The creative on that side of it. Co wrote, I'm
not going to take entire credit, but yeah Wow, because
I used to because I was in a boy band
in high school, like in real life back in Orlando.
So I had all those like boy band melodies in
my head, and when they were working on the music,
I was like, you know, I'm the pop star in
this movie. Let me let me contribute and do that.
And they did Yeah wowand new Ground.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
With a you and you and you ground Okay, Okay, we're.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Trying to be in sync meets Jodasy was like our
log line.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Okay, and did you have as as in sync? Did?
They all kind of had looks if you will? Were you?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I was?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I was the blonde frosted tip one. Okay, but it
was it was like it was a multicultural band. We
we wrapped. It was a little more like urban for
lack of a better word, than in sync and Backstreet
Boys were trying to do and we weren't signed to
trans connor with. We were sort of like the the
(19:52):
underdog group. Okay, but I did it for three years.
We released an album independently and toured the Southeast and
it was really fun. It was sort of school in
learning how to sing and harmonize and really read the
kind of music that I have been since.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
So wow, I did not know that it's.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Pretty embarrassing black pleather pants.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I'm talking about en G.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yeah. Yeah, it's out there on the interwebs.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Okay, they see it. I see it.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I'm so happy. I have to ask because I've asked
other people this and they all give kind of an
interesting answer because they're all kind of around.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
The same area. How does one write a.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Song a man?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I think everyone comes to it differently depending on what
their instrument is. Right For me, I I don't. I
can write songs just on a guitar by myself, but
I much prefer collaborating, you know, so a lot of
times I'll be the lyric and top line guy, and
then I'll work with the producer and hash it out
that way. But lyrics never come first for me. It's
(21:06):
always melky like. If I'm listening to a song, I'll
I'll go for a run, I'll do something physical where
I get out of my head and I'll just hum
melodies into my phone. And then I'll listen back later
and I'll be like, oh, yep, that's the chorus. Yep,
that could be a verse. And then I work backwards
and find like phrases and things that fit into it,
and sort of like that's my method anyway. It's sort
(21:26):
of organically comes together quicker than if I try to
like force a this is what it has to be about.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Right, you know?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Wow, unless I get it, unless I get a brief
from Disney that says you're a you're an octopus who
just brobbed a bank, and you're you know, like some
kind of you know, because those come through with those
animated shows, And then like you got to be very
specific with that.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Right, yes, And do you find I was gonna say,
do you find that to be a little bit more
difficult because you're you are not in like a super
open space, You're kind of more in a specific fig zone.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I find it'd be easier. I like working within a framework.
It's sort of a narrows the monkey brain in and
it's like, okay, like here's here's what you can choose from.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
That's cool, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I do like those I'm doing a lot more of
that nowadays. I'm just trying to do something that my
daughter now will think is cool, you know, because she's not.
She doesn't watch any of this dcom stuff from twenty
years ago. Yeah, if I can write some songs on
one of the shows she's obsessed with.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
You gotta get yourself on some Disney Plus with her
and she might be super stoked about it. It is
making a comeback like nothing other. Have you felt the
wave of nostalgia that has swept with Disney Plus now
airing all the d coms that used to be just
on the channel. Are you feeling that that nostalgia.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
But a little bit. Yeah, everything comes back around, and
yes it's open to a new generation, which is which
is cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, Well you know what I hope comes back around
is she's gonna run by new ground.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Hey you found something.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
We're looking we're looking at.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I'm looking at the YouTube video right here and the
picture right here.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I have no regrets, should you?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Guys? Regrets? Awesome?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
When you were growing up, who were kind of some
of your musical influences?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I mean, where did you really find your love of music?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
That's good boys to men, baby bassed John b like
like early Uh yeah, that that kind of era of
stuff is like what I really gravitated toward. Also, uh,
Smashing Pumpkins, sound Garden. They're going on like like I was,
I was equal parts nineties grunge and like early two
thousand's R and B and neo soul too, like like
(23:38):
Lauren Hill Music soul child. I just saw him in
la like six months ago. It was a great show.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Yeah, so and yeah and then show twos, So who
am I? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
You're well rounded. That's what's cool.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I mean, that's what obviously is amazing for Disney to
be able to come to you, and that's where you're
able to pull from all of their different genres that
you like to be able to give Disney, You're an octopus, Like.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
You're able to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
What's going to rhyme with bank robbery and octopus? Like
I'm still I still have that character in my head,
like sabbery.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
All right, Well, we obviously can't let this interview go
by without bringing up One Tree Hill, which is another iconic.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, we hit it all.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Oh yeah, obviously another iconic TV show with rabid fans.
And I gotta know, this is the question who would
you say were the most passionate fans, your HSM fans
or your One Tree Hill fans.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
My personally, my most passionate fans were my Another Currella
Story fans, because that's what people see me on screen
and like know that I'm a part of high school musical.
I'm sort of been tangentially involved in One Tree Hill.
I was on two episodes and one of them I
was edited out of completely.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
So oh, no, no way.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I do One Tree Hill conventions because they'll have me
and they're fun. Yeah, but a lot of times people
will show up and know me from other things, but
they'll be like you were in One Tree Hill, Like what,
I gotta go back and watch this, so sort of
a blink and you'll miss me situation.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
I feel like you see it a lot when you
look up what you've done in your resume and everything.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
So that's shocking. I didn't know it was only one episode.
It made it seem like you were on for like.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
A sea I've I've milked it.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yes, nice? Why not?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Why?
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah? I was in Wilmington about a month ago and
played in a charity basketball game with all the cast
members and for the twentieth anniversary or maybe.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Well was that like it was great after so long?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
The fans are rabbit. Well most of the cast too,
are like, who are you? What season.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Was my boy?
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Yes? Yes, ye, he's a he's a he just yeah
he just had a kid too, didn't he.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah he was a good dude, terrific guy, terrific guy.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah. You know, I've just been kicking around the block
and lots of different different places. So One Tree Hill
was was a very fun Dawson's Creek was right before that,
and that's actually what got me my like sag card
and how I became a professional actor. Oh really, so
One Tree Hill was my second job right after that. Okay,
but uh yeah I'm not I'm not just like Corbyn.
(26:22):
I'm not a very good basketball player. A lot of faking.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It to play basketball.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Ye, between that and get your head in the game,
it's like, it's I gotta learn, it's I have to.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
That just seemed when he said that I was I
didn't even believe it for a second. I thought he
was completely just trying to Now you telling me you
can't really jump rope, which you also did a song
in that movie jump in I'm ready you also did
a song in that movie, him telling me I wasn't
a great like I'm not actually a great double dutcher, Like, okay,
(26:59):
I could probably you know that that's got to be hard,
and not that basketball is not hard, but it just
he did not seem like he wasn't.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
A good one at all. That was that was so weird, strange, strange.
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I hate I hate to do this to you because
I know it's like picking between your children.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But what's your favorite song you've ever written?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Oh? Man, that's a that's a really hard question. Probably.
I released my own album in twenty ten called The Resolution,
and Uh, as much as I love all my Disney stuff,
there's a couple of songs on there that I like,
accept in speech and why can't you say that your mind?
I would, I would say, go check out some of
(27:39):
that music to see the other side of me. Uh yeah,
But yeah, man, that's really hard. I know that's a no.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That was a great answer, because it's got to be
what's personal to you, So I you know that.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I think New Classic was a really fun one because
that really like, yeah, I got to you know. It
was in the film and I got to do a
music video for it afterwards, and it was a duet
with Selena Gomez. Like, how many people get to say
they got to do that?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You know?
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Yeah, that's I'm always gonna have that on my resus
on my business.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
You got you got to plate frame, you.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Got to do you got to do it with Selena
Gomez And just being able to say that is kind
of the coolest thing. Yeah, okay, So another question, then,
you've been doing this for so long and you've been
doing it with the Channel, have you in your mind
come up with your own musical that you've wanted to
do for Disney?
Speaker 6 (28:33):
That's a good and tell me why it would be
a Christmas movie?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
How do the all these funny things come together? The dance,
there's there's downhill skiing who I don't know know. I'm
Canadian originally, so maybe some angle of that. Yeah, yeah, no,
I I I've been I'm gonna think on that.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I was running. If you're like, no, I got don't.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Have ready to go yet.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
But hey, once you get that, you did absolutely contact
Disney did.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Write I did write a Getting the Band Back Together
boy band comedy script. Okay, based on that experience of
my new Ground experience, but it was a little more raunchy,
so I'd have to I'd have to bring it to
Disney disneyfy yeah, yeah, but that could be funny. You know.
I don't know if I've seen that on the channel specifically. Yeah,
very funny.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh man, okay, well I have so fun guys. Yeah, no,
this has been amazing and we we I have. I
have one final question for you here. I know that
you came later to to Disney Channel because you're a
little older, but when you were growing up, what was
your favorite Disney movie.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Growing up? Probably? Yeah, probably The Lion King or The
Little Mermaid beating the Beast. That just yeah, that era,
that was That was it? Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
That is one of my favorite parts of my daughter,
who's four now falling in love with Disney is I
don't mind that The Little Mermaid is on.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Three times a day.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
It's great.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
One of my favorite one.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Of my favorite parts of being a mom to a
little kid that is also a Disney kid, and I
just those movies I could watch over and over again.
I did when I was little, and I am fine
doing it again as an adult, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
So fun seeing them being reimagined now too, like live
action and just updated. Yes, yes, because the music is
still amazing, you know, timeless.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Okay, I'm sorry, I do have another question. I apologize.
You want to keep you, We want to keep you
on forever.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
What if you could take one part in anything Disney?
What would what would you want to play? Because I mean,
like Eric, and you know Prince Eric is amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Uh, you know, but I.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Mean you can you can have any role, any Disney
role you want.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
What do you do? Hm? Hmm is Hamilton Disney because
it's on Disney Place.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Yeah, that'll count.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
That'll count. Kind of the King at some point. I've
always loved I always think that would be really a
lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Oh that's that's a great answer. Oh man, Well, thank
you so much for joining.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Seeing you again.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Wow, yeah, this is so fun.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
It's been years.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Do you have any uh any We're going to go
check out obviously new Ground and all the other stuff
you're doing, but do you have any uh any.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
New music we could listen to? Any stuff?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Uh? Yeah, I'm constantly putting stuff out on my my
own Spotify, you know, as an artist, and then pitching
songs and writing songs for different shows. I just I
have a new song on the the Disney Junior iron
Man show that's coming up. So yeah, here and there,
my name, my name is kicking around. But uh yeah,
mostly the last couple of years, I've been more focused
(31:56):
on family life. You know, my my daughter's five. Sure
times going so fast as you as you are aware too,
I'm sure Sabrina is just like, yeah, I want to
be here and be president. I miss any of it.
So doing a little less professionally but feeling good.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I love that. Where can we Where can we stay
updated with all your stuff? You said Spotify? Yes, on Instagram?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Instagram?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
What's your handle on YouTube?
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Is just my name just Andrew Seely, So that's probably
the best place.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
And sorry, tell me you're tell me the album you
did in twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
One more time.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
So I want to called the Resolution, Okay, cool?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I want to listen to those songs.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Perfect.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Yeah, really a pleasure talking to you guys.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
You as well.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I hope you don't mind. We're going to have you
back at some point. So we got a lot looking.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Forward, took about sounds good.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Thank you, Drew, Bye guys, Bye, yeah. I mean, well
you're you're one, so I mean, you're a triple threat.
But I couldn't imagine having that much talent where it's
just like I'm gonna sing, I'm gonna dance, I'm gonna
write a song, I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I mean, it's he oozes.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
It, he oozes talent he has.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
I mean, I like, even on the Channel, he didn't
even get as much as they did use him for
so much they like he said, they sort of it
seemed like pinhold him into just being a music artist
and head him.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
A little dirty, a little bit because.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Hainey bit I would say.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
I mean, I just don't think they necessarily used him
as much as they could have in the sense of,
you know, but you got to think too, I mean,
he looked so much like maybe not now when you
just saw him, but when he was younger, he definitely
had that same look of the of the zach Effron
and yeah, and so that might.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Have been what it is. But he he was a
great actor, a great dancer.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Like there's just so much he had so much talent
at that time that I don't think that they tapped
into all of it, you know.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
And it's also but just with I mean, how his
age now, he's age and talent, he's perfect musical Disney dad.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Oh first, how do you cast that.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Guy first in some huge thing and then go cast
this kid? I mean, how is that guy not in
in the you know, any of the zombie movies or
any of the stuff we've seen before.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Totally there's still time though, well, I mean, like he said,
he's it sounds like he's you know, and I can
I can appreciate it because I definitely did that when
I first had Monroe, and this was my first opportunity
to really jump back and feel like I'm back in
the industry in some sort of taking the time and
just kind of wanting to be a dad.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Because his life, as you can see, I mean, he
was going on the tours, he was getting put into
different things. They were pulling at him.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
They just didn't put him in like a you know,
starring you know, and and taking him into the world
and the next TV shows in that next level. But
he was working for at least a decade and a
half NonStop, you know, And so I love that he's
he's done that with his daughter and had that time
and you know, I doubt that's the last we're going
to see.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, hopefully, Yeah in one of the one of the
kind of Descendants movies or something coming out. How do
you not make that guy one of the princes And
it's like he's the dad of whoever?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I mean, my god, Yeah, it's perfect, he's perfect.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
All right, Well, thank you Drew Silly for joining us,
and thank you everybody for joining us for our Park
Copper episode.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
What cool.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I wanted to talk to him for a while, so
that was that was really neat, just to kind of
hear a different career Disney wise, right, Yeah, And.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
It was interesting to see that he said they were
we're trying to find this this timeline of what happened
with the first high School Musical. It seems like they
must have been rehearsing or at least filming a little
bit before and then they pulled them to record, so
we know that they were pulled. It wasn't initially done
before anything.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
So that's because I don't think anybody knew what the
hell high School Musical was going to be until.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It it was, and then it was wow explosion exactly.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
We keep getting more and more info on that and
that's so cool.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
As we get the info, we're of course going to
keep giving it to you. So thank you everybody for
joining us, and uh yeah, we'll see you over on
our other feed. As we keep watching some movies, some
lately have been amazing, some haven't not so much.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
But not one with Drew Sealey, I'll tell you that
they've all been great.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
You get Drew in there, you got a good film.
So thanks everybody for joining us, and we will see
you next time.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Bye bye
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