Can you talk about working with Briana Evigan and building a rapport with her?
Your director says you two had great chemistry. Robert: Me and Briana clicked right from the beginning. I had read with a couple other girls and nothing was really happening. I was like, ‘Oh, no!’ And, that was back when this movie wasn’t expected to do much. It was just going to be a straight-to-DVD release. I was like, ‘Oh, no, this is going to be tough.’ And, Briana was the last girl they brought in, and it was magic, right off the top. We just gelled. We understood each other. We hadn’t been directed to, and everyone else had just done the lines, as is, but she and I went right off the script and started bantering, and it was there from the first minute. The jabs, and yet the undertone of attraction, was right in place from the beginning. TeenHollywood: Do you have a favorite musical film? Robert: Grease was fun. TeenHollywood: We hear that, on set there was a real life competition between the dancers playing the MSA kids, and the 410 Crew. True? Robert: Dancers are all gypsies and
