Posts Tagged ‘Geek Charming’
The world knows her as the vacuous Dunphy daughter Haley in Modern Family (in which real-life boyfriend Matt Prokop has been cast) but 21-year-old Sarah Hyland has worked with everyone from Jennifer Aniston to Adam Sandler.
Coming soon: a starring role in Struck by Lightning, a film written by Chris Colfer from Glee. But first, her Disney Channel movie Geek Charming.
>> You’ve been working since you were about zero years old.
Since about like five.
>> Your parents are in the industry so they wouldn’t have been upset that you wanted to become an actor and face the disappointments that come with that, would they?
When I first started they didn’t really like me doing it, because they knew the trials and tribulations and the rejection, and they didn’t want a child to go through that. But I kind of forced them into it. So it worked out.
>> Geek Charming is so cute, and how exciting to have been able to make it with your boyfriend.
I had such fun. Even though it’s a Disney Channel movie, I feel like it’s really different. I haven’t seen a Disney Channel movie like this since Tru Confessions with Shia LaBeouf . It’s a lot deeper (but) when you’re in a Disney Channel movie your dress has to be a certain length, it can’t go past your fingertips.
>> Are you joking?
No I’m not joking. So at all the fittings I had to put my arms down and if the dress was shorter than the end of my fingertips then I couldn’t wear it. So I feel like if the dresses were shortened a little bit … I feel like with the tiniest adjustments to the movie it could’ve been a movie released in theatres.
>> Who’s going to be upset by a short skirt?
It was weird because we were filming the movie and then in between scenes they were doing some behind-the-scenes of it to air on Disney Channel, but Disney representatives were like, “You can’t wear that in the interview”, because they were spaghetti straps. Like, on the dress.
They were really tiny straps. And I was like, “What do you mean I can’t wear it?” And they were like, “They’re the same width as bra straps, so you have to put a jacket over it.”
>> Aren’t people funny.
I get it, with certain things, because it’s a kids’ channel and a kids’ movie, but I don’t understand spaghetti straps.
>> Have you had different offers since the success of Modern Family?
Modern Family has definitely opened up a lot of doors and I will always be grateful. And it’s funny, the roles I’m playing more often now and that people are thinking of me for, it’s more like the stupid party girl, bitchy roles and stuff.
So it’s kind of funny what one role can do for you. It opens so many doors but those doors are all leading to that character you’re already playing.
>> How much more of Modern Family do you want to do?
I’m willing to ride it out until the end… for as long as it goes.
“Geek Charming” will be released on DVD on February 7, 2012!
You can pre-order the film now on Amazon!
All New Disney Channel Original Movie Debuts February 7 on DVD & Digital Copy and Packaged With A Special Collectible Charm Set!
The 2-Disc DVD (DVD + Digital Copy) is the ideal Valentine’s Day gift and includes 10 episodes of the Disney Channel smash hit television show “Shake It Up,” plus a special collectible charm set.
You can now purchase “Geek Charming” on iTunes! The movie is being sold for $14.99 and you can purchase by clicking right here!
Don’t forget that “Geek Charming” premieres tonight, November 11th at 8:00 p.m., ET/PT on Disney Channel.
The first photos of Sarah Hyland from the movie “Geek Charming” have just been released! I have added 14 production stills and promotional images of Sarah and Matt from the movie into our photo gallery!
Disney Channel’s latest original movie Geek Charming will debut Friday, Nov. 11 at 8/7c, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
Based on the eponymous book, the film stars Modern Family’s Sarah Hyland as Dylan, a snobby popular high school junior who agrees to become the subject of a documentary being made by Josh, (Matt Prokop) the school’s film geek. As the cameras roll, Josh and Dylan begin to gain new perspective on each other.
Leading into the premiere, Disney Channel will be celebrating “Geek Week” by airing movies and certain episodes of its series that celebrate “geekdom.” Hyland and Prokop will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie during interstitials airing Monday through Thursday, Nov. 7-10 from 7:30/6:30c to 10/9c.
A new, full length trailer for “Geek Charming” has just been released!
There’s no rest for the wicked teenager! The day after her hit show Modern Family wrapped, Sarah Hyland, who plays angsty teen Haley Dunphy, flew to Vancouver to shoot the Disney Channel movie Geek Charming with off-screen boyfriend Matt Prokop.
“It’s about Dylan Shoenfield, a.k.a. Sarah Hyland, who gets approached by Josh Rosen, a.k.a. Matt Prokop, and he asks her to star in a documentary he’s making for a film festival,” she told Wetpaint of the plotline when we chatted with her at the Critics’ Choice Television Awards. “He uses her for his documentary; she uses him to win Blossom Queen at their school.“
Surprise, surprise: They end up romantically involved. “She’s your typical bratty, queen bee, not very nice to anybody and they start to get to know each other and he finds out that she puts on this character and she’s really not that kind of a person,” said Hyland, admitting that it was a relief to temporarily play someone closer to her own personality. “Dylan, in the first part of the movie, is a lot like Haley. So that was really easy to do, but then the Dylan that really is Dylan is a lot like me, so it was nice to be able to relax and play her.”
Not that Sarah finds it hard to find inspiration for her Modern Family character. “If I’m annoyed and tired on set, it doesn’t matter because I look annoyed with my parents,” she laughed. “Haley’s very dramatic. It’s fun to make fun of girls that you knew!”
I have added 115 HQ and MQ photos into the gallery today. There are 2 new set of candids of Sarah Hyland as well as 2 new sets of photos from the set of “Geek Charming”!
I have just added the first photos of Sarah Hyland from the set of “Geek Charming” into our gallery! There is a total of 41 photos from the set on April 16th and April 18th.
