Tanner Buchanan defends Addison Rae's casting in HesAllThat: “She put in the work. She did audition for this. She had to send them her self-tapes and everything. Everybody had to be OK with her, and she did an amazing job.”
, in “He’s All That,” Netflix’s gender-swapped remake of 1999’s “She’s All That.” Rae had no acting experience before being chosen to star as a high school influencer who makes it her mission to transform the school’s most unpopular boy into the prom king. “She put in the work. She did audition for this,” Buchanan tells me on this week’s episode of the “” podcast. “She had to send them her self-tapes and everything. Everybody had to be OK with her, and she did an amazing job.
Could a superhero be next for Buchanan? The actor says he’d love to play his favorite superhero, Robin, oppositeas the Caped Crusader. He also wouldn’t mind playing the character as bisexual, as he is in the August issue of “Batman: Urban Legends.” “If I have the opportunity to represent something like that, that’s incredible,” Buchanan says.
wants viewers to know that the very intimate and realistic Netflix show is not based on his real-life divorce from. “I just go to therapy and discuss it with one person that has the credentials to listen to it — not audiences, not social media! That would be a disaster,” Luna tells me of the new Netflix dramedy. “I force myself every time I try to tell a story as a director to take it as far away as possible from my own experience. … If it’s too close, you start to become protective.
The series takes a look at so-called failed relationships that don’t have a happily-ever-after-ending. “The ‘ever-after’ idea is like oh, my god,” Luna says. “If we would be able to go back in time and erase that sentence, every fairy tale, every movie that we watched as kids we would be so much freer to define who we want to be. This idea that things are forever are just so ridiculous.”
Luna decided to stay in back of the camera in order to stay focused on his actors. “I think it’s different muscles to me,” he says. “I don’t think you would be able to deliver the best performance of your life if you don’t trust someone else to witness it for the first time. And as a director I really don’t want to be distracted.”