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Now a seasoned 15-year-old who has appeared on “Will & Grace,” “Bull,” “The Young and the Restless” and “Brothers Garcia,” Badgley this season takes on the role of Joel Larsen, a man who is zapped back to his teen years and gets to relive the horrors of high school. On becoming an actor: “I started with the Pine Nut Players in Monroe and I went to Seattle Children’s Theatre after that, which really sparked my interest. Through SCT I saw an ad on a bulletin board for an acting consultant (who could help) to get an agent, things like that. So I got an agent and after a few years I was in seventh grade and she said I should try going on to L.A. I came down and after a few years it looks like I’m going to be successful.” On his greatest embarrassment: “Singing the national anthem at a Tacoma Rainiers game. I didn’t take it that seriously and I didn’t think I’d forget the words, but I got up there and it was the line ‘through the perilous fight’ and I blanked at ‘perilous.’ I stopped and everyone was like: ‘Perilous! Perilous.’ And I turned around and just started over from there. … All the guys came out of the dugout and said, ‘It’s OK, man, everyone makes mistakes.’” On auditioning for “Do Over”: “It was very quick. I went in on a Friday morning and I was feeling good, and I went in and I did a good job. That Monday I went in for the screen test and I was horrible. And then I went into the network and (producer) Warren (Littlefield) talked to me and said I should try to recapture whatever I had done on Friday, and I went in and I did it. Later that day they called me and I got the part.” |
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