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How Peyton Meyer Got His Start With Disney—and Is Growing Up on Netflix

good afternoon everyone benjamin lindsay,here managing editor at backstage i hope,you've enjoyed your time these last,couple weeks i've been on vacation,myself so it's good to be back hosting,these interviews for you guys you're of,course tuning in for the latest,installment of backstage live today we,are speaking with actor peyton meyer,he's best known for his days on the,disney channel starring in girl meets,world and on abc's american housewife,next up later this month he's seen,co-starring in netflix's he's all that,it's just the latest gender swapped,reboot that this young actor has starred,in,i've seen it myself it's so much fun,and he's he's a heck of a talent so i'm,excited to pick his brain a little bit,how he got started in disney and now,navigating into these more adult roles,so without further ado let me see if,he's in our audience and i can bring,peyton on to,join us,what's up,caitlyn how's it going good how are you,good good uh my name is ben it's it's a,it's a pleasure to meet you at least in,this remote on-camera way,to meet you,where are you calling in from,i'm actually in la for uh the premiere,so i'm i drove cross country to get here,but uh i'm in la oh very nice okay how's,the drive it was great we stopped in uh,you know a couple little places we,stopped in sedona and albuquerque and,texas just to hang out a little bit but,it's kind of cool seeing the country,like that i've i've,never driven across country so it's,pretty sweet yeah yeah i've never had,the chance to do that myself but it's,definitely on the bucket list um and,exciting that you're uh there to,celebrate premiere of he's all that um,before we get to that i'd love to hear,just a bit more about your roots in the,performing arts how you got your start,um the backseat readership really is,kind of the working actors of the world,so uh,take us to the beginning just uh what,role did the performing arts play in,your life growing up and when did you,get hooked,yeah so basically i mean i was,you know a regular kid i was sports kid,basketball football baseball um and then,i did this one play,when i was in third grade i think it was,um and that's basically when the seed,was planted uh and from then on i,basically just watched tv and was always,so addicted to how it all worked i just,really wanted to know how these people,got on tv how they're doing what they're,doing,um and then i basically just kind of,started out from there and in vegas i,was born and raised in vegas so in vegas,i did this little uh,you know kind of try out i guess and,ended up finding an agent and she took,me to l.a she was like you need to move,to la and we drove back and forth from,la to vegas and,just started out just starting yeah yeah,i mean,that's the way to do it and i'm sure it,helps it sounds like you had a support,system your parents were into it and uh,down to do the drive from vegas to los,angeles and make the whole thing work um,do you remember the performances growing,up that really inspired you like what,what excited you uh about the medium and,about the craft in the first place yeah,so basically i mean i was like 10 when i,started so,bear with me but i mean it was like it,was like george lopez and friends,um just it just fascinated me i mean,just the comedy of it like it seemed,like it was so much fun and you know i,ended up asking my mom i was like,how does this work and they're like they,literally sit on set and i ended up,looking up online like how it all works,and i saw some backstage stuff and i was,just so enthralled by,the entire process of how how crazy it,looked yeah yeah and then obviously here,you are a handful of years later and you,have credits like growing swirls,american housewife and now uh he's all,that under your belt um tell us about,how you first kind of got your foot in,the door at disney i mean girl meets,world i remember when that show first,came out so many people were talking,about it i was a fan of the original,myself um so how is it that uh yeah that,you you kind of got your foot in the,door there,well you know i mean uh it took me 10,years to build that list um that i now,have and it takes a lot of time you know,coming into it i was a kid but i still,understood that you know this is the,entertainment industry this is famous,people this is where it all happens um,but i didn't realize how much work was,behind it and um honestly it's a lot,it's a lot of work,um but basically i just started,auditioning a bunch um for a bunch of,random stuff you know target commercials,calls commercials anything i could do i,was just trying to get,a foot in the door,and i ended up having this disney,audition,and,it went super well and this casting,director ended up calling the head of,casting of disney and was like you gotta,meet this kid,so i ended up having a general uh which,i hope a lot of you guys understand what,a general is it's where you sit down,with the head of casting of that,specific studio and you get to know them,that way any proje

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