John Carter director Andrew Stanton sat down for a “Google Talks” Q&A.

Don’t forget to check out our John Carter review here.

Recently I’ve been given the opportunity to start reviewing movies for this website. I thought that was a lot of fun and it has legitimized all the hours that I’ve spent watching movies (almost). I couldn’t imagine my passion carrying me any further until I had the pleasure to interview actual movie actors.

Project X is a new movie about two friends who throw a huge birthday party for their friend Thomas. Things quickly get out of hand as random people start showing up and the night gets later. Kirby Bliss Blanton plays a girl who is great friends with the leads. She has been super close with Thomas her whole life and you can tell that there could be something there romantically. Alexis Knapp plays the girl who every guy in the school wants to bed, including Thomas.

Nathan: Thanks for doing this ladies. I saw the movie last night and I thought that it looked like the most fun movie ever to make. What was it like being on set for that?

Kirby Bliss Blanton: It was like it seems; It was really, really fun being on this film.Obviously we weren’t getting wasted or doing drugs. It was like a party but we didn’t drink, I promise.

Nathan: What was the worst part about it?

Kirby: The night shoots. You are trying to sleep in until 6 PM to go to work at 8 PM. It totally messes up your sleep schedule. I was nocturnal for a minute.

Alexis Knapp: The worst part for me was wrapping as the sun was coming up and then coming home…

Kirby: Yeah, we’d come home, eat breakfast then go to sleep. It was very strange.

Alexis: Yeah, it was very weird.

Nathan: In previous interviews you’ve mentioned that Todd Phillips (director of the Hangover and producer of Project X) was kind of the Godfather of the set. What have you learned from him and some of the more experienced people on set?

Kirby: Todd has a vision and he goes with it. He’s not afraid to push those boundaries. He’s really intelligent and he’s really funny. It was just so awesome to be able to work with him. I hope we get to work with him again. Everything is a learning experience for me.

Alexis: What I learned from Todd is that it’s ok to break some rules and to cross lines and boundaries because it’s usually funny and worth it.

Nathan: Kirby, you’ve worked on a lot of Nickelodeon and Disney channel shows, what have you taken from previous experiences and applied to making your first film?

Kirby: I’ve been doing it such a long time that I’ve been learning the whole way with each opportunity that it is the work ethic. You need to stay focused. It was really hard because it was like a party, but you’ve got to still work. Working with other people and other personalities you just have to make sure that you are on point.

Nathan: Alexis, you’re background is in modeling is that right? What have you learned from that?

Alexis: I just finished playing a model in a new TV show, outside of that modeling has benefitted me in zero ways except for kind of introducing me to the world. My background consists of mostly ballet, instruments and singing so don’t call me a model.

(girls laugh)

Nathan: You mentioned that you have a background in singing, I know that you are appearing in a movie with Anna Kendrick and Brittany Snow that is based around music. Will you be singing in that?

Alexis: Yeah, that movie is really great. It’s sooooo friggin’ funny. It revolves around the collegiate competitive a cappela world. I’m singing and dancing. Me, Brittany, Anna, Anna Camp we’re all in a girls group, you could say. It’s like a more adult Glee. I’m excited.

Nathan: Kirby, I saw that you were doing the American adaptation of The Inbetweeners. The original is one of my favorite shows, have you ever seen it?

Kirby: Yeah, of course I have; gotta do my research.

(laughs)

Nathan: What character are you playing?

Kirby: I play Charlotte (the object of affection of the main character, Will, and most of the other boys in school). I did a few episodes for the MTV version. The bottom-line is we don’t get to curse as much. It’s not as raunchy, because in the UK you can say whatever bloody hell comes out of your mouth; MTV isn’t going to let us say fuck or anything. We’re doing every episode with the same story just without the language.

Nathan: I’m looking forward to it.

Kirby: And we’re not going to talk British, that would be weird.

(girls laugh)

Nathan: If you had unlimited funds to throw the party of your dreams, what would you have there? What would you do?

Kirby: I would probably have something like a reptile convention. It would be like a mixture of a reptile convention and a Star Trek convention. That’s what my party would be like.

Alexis: I would want to do something really embarrassing like renting out a concert hall and have everyone do karaoke really bad. Drinking would be a necessity. I don’t know, that’s a really good question, though.

Nathan: Kirby, in the movie your character is very much “one of the guys” and Alexis you are more of an untouchable vixen, is that how you perceive yourself in real life?

Kirby: For the most part, I’m kind of a guy’s girl. I’m friends with a lot of dudes and most of the guys I’ve dated were my best-friend beforehand, so that I can kind of relate to. I’d hope to say I’m not the girl-next-door, I’d like to think there is more to me than that, but I can definitely relate.

Alexis: For me that character is definitely not who I am. That’s one thing that Kirby and I have in common. Day-to-day I don’t really do any girly things or consider myself to be like {my character}, that’s not who Alexis is at all in real-life. I’d rather play video games than go out and taunt boys.

(girls laugh)

Nathan: Have you guys been at any house parties where cars were driven in to pools or things got set on fire?

Alexis: My porch one time got set on fire because a dude failed to take a flaming shot that he kept bragging that he could do. The shot glass cracked and a little bit of vodka spilled on the porch and immediately burst in to flames so I ran inside and filled up my blender with water. When I came out he had patted it out with his shirt and hands. Thank god he didn’t burn down the whole damn neighborhood with my house.

(laughs)

(to Kirby) Any crazy party stories?

Kirby: I don’t have any crazy party stories. I’ve been asked this a bunch. At one point I threw a party and my parents left to stay at a hotel so I could party but that’s because they trusted me and knew I that I would be cleaning up the whole time and they were absolutely correct.

Nathan: It wasn’t like Thomas’ parents in the movie who trusted him before things got crazy?

Kirby: No, not at all. I’m a little bit of a loser in that way. I was literally cleaning up and people were like ‘Kirby, I’m not finished with that’, ‘well can you hurry I need to clean.

Nathan: Alexis, at the end of the movie there is a scene between Thomas and his dad while looking at the destruction of the party. There is a moment where {his dad} is surprised, shocked and kind of a little proud. You are a new mother, what would you say or do to your daughter if you found out she had a similar party?

Alexis: I would probably beat my child’s ass.

Nathan: You wouldn’t be as understanding as Thomas’ dad?

Alexis: Definitely not! I didn’t throw any parties like this as a kid, so my kid isn’t going to throw parties like this. I would rip some faces off!

(girls laugh)

Nathan: What other projects do you have in the works?

Alexis: I have a movie called So Undercover, starring Miley Cyrus and Jeremy Piven. It’s also a comedy. It takes place in a sorority. Miley is in the FBI and she goes undercover to get information on a mobster’s daughter. I play that mobster’s daughter’s roommate. I play a character who is very uppity, very girly.

Kirby: I have another comedy coming out called Hot Bot. It’s kind of a newer version of Weird Science but instead of creating the perfect woman they just happen upon this sex-robot. That’s basically what the whole movie revolves around, these two nerds getting to play with the most beautiful woman ever and she’s a sex-toy robot.

Nathan: Are you playing the sex-bot?

Kirby: I wish, man. I’m not the hot girl, I guess. I play the girl-next-door again.

Nathan: Any plans for a Project X 2?

Alexis: They kind of wrote it in…

Kirby: They left it open.

Alexis: If we sell enough tickets. That’s why we’re doing this press tour.

Kirby: We want to make people sick of us by the time we are done because we want to do it again so bad.

Alexis: Oh, yeah!

(girls laugh)

See Project X starring Kirby Bliss Blanton, Alexis Knapp and several other funny young actors starting Friday, March 2^nd.