When Disney or any of these companies send out briefs for a song, they'll be like, okay, here's the scene, here's kind of what's happening, here's the points you got to hit. So we had a framework to work within, you know, breakout in the bridge. You know, I'm my feet. I know Salina was in the room. We hit, you know, there's like a chemistry read kind of thing. How do you find yourself into the Disney 2000s aura of it. Really by accident.

We shot in the dead of winter in Vancouver.

It was freezing.

They had a sucking on ice cubes between every take when we were talking outside so that our breath wouldn't show on camera.

Oh, really?

Cut! Bring the ice cubes!

You've got quite a dancing with the stars revolving door, I've noticed.

Have you ever considered doing it? I would love to do it. I think it would be super fun. You know, I've had some friends that have done it from, yeah, high school musical, and I'm friends with Mark Ballas, so that would be, like, super cool. Did you just know him through Jersey Boys? Jersey Boys, and then Kinky Boots at the Hollywood Bowl a couple years ago as well. I feel like you'd crush it on there. It'd be really fun, yeah. I'd have to compete with these 20-year-olds. You partnered with Riley or Brit, but I would super, I would be so down. That'd be so fun. I think it might be a fun Easter egg for the fans because, you know, I've been kicking around for a while. Cool. So I go right into it. All right. Your career has spent it so long doing so many different fields. Was there something that you fell in love with at first and then it just led into everything else? Yeah. Well, from age seven, my parents got me into dancing, so ballet, tap, jazz,

lift class.

So like, you know, I was a seven-year-old boy trying to lift girls my age who were bigger than me

at that point, you know, because I was a pretty scrawny little guy.

But that was before music, acting was dance so like I got

music in my bones there and you know did competitions you know did the whole the whole

like travel to Orlando and have a competition in an awkward Hilton ballroom you know

experience and you were traveling from Canada that's when I lived in Canada yeah

in Toronto and then when I was in Canada, yeah, in Toronto.

And then when I was 11, I got cast as one of the kids in the revival of showboat

before it went to Broadway. They did it for a year in Toronto. And that was my first acting job,

and that's where I was like, oh my God, I can dance, I can sing, I can act in one, like it all comes together here

in theater. So from then on, I was like, I don't know what else I could do. And then,

did you always write and record your own songs as well at that age? Not that young, no.

When I was 12 or 13, my parents moved me to, moved our whole family to Florida. And that's really when I started writing my own stuff. And I was in a, you know, a bad high school band, you know. We all played, played bad electric guitar and, you know, started writing very emo songs. I wrote one song called, like, The Death of the Sun. Like, that gives you an example of my mind space. I was very, very moody.

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