AOAOAOA presents our annual "20 Around 20" List: our ranking of the 20ish young Hollywood stars who are around 20 years old. In this episode, we talk to four of the people on this prestigious list.
The panel introduces themselves as the '20-ish people all around 20-ish years old' who are the next rising stars of Hollywood, despite some appearing significantly older.
"The youth are the future. So listen in as we show you a peek of what 30 years from now will look like."
The young stars discuss their confusion over receiving a physical check at a callback, revealing they have never seen one because their handlers manage all finances.
"I don't know what a check is. Have you guys ever seen a check?"
"One time someone gave me a check and it's because I was shooting something that was set in 1997. It was a prop."
Danny Dunkirk discusses his A24 film where he plays a boy in Paris who paints his nails, emphasizing that it's okay for straight boys to do so as long as they remain hyper-masculine.
"Boys can paint their fingernails as long as they're super masculine the rest of the time."
"I'm obviously a straight boy with painted fingernails."
Skyler Asiago pitches his non-profit goal to create a brand new, clean ocean called 'Pizza Ocean' to solve pollution, only to be told a new ocean already exists.
"We're making another ocean, and we're going to add it to the maps."
"I hate to break it that Pizza Ocean was already taken."
Danny reveals she has been legally emancipated since age 10 and lives with her agent, Danielle, who uses a psychic bartering system and phone-buzzing visions to book roles.
"I have been legally emancipated for the past eight years."
"Danielle my agent will say, 'That's the phone,' and then she'll go in the other room and then she'll come back with a psychic prediction."
The group relentlessly bullies Nat for looking like a 47-year-old valet despite his claims of being 24. They mock his deep laugh and his 'old soul' teaching kids to swim.
"I would have pegged you for like 47 years old, man. You look old as fucking."
"It's awesome for me to have like a mentor in this industry who's like part of Gen X."
The actors discuss their bizarre representation, including being repped by AAA (the battery company), Marriott Hotels, and a literal backyard pool.
"I'm actually with AAA. The batteries."
"My friend is repped by a pool. Just one pool."
Skyler Asiago pitches a non-profit to build a new, clean ocean called 'Pizza Ocean,' only for Nat to ruin the moment by revealing a new ocean was actually just discovered.
"We're making another ocean, and we're going to add it to the maps."
"I hate to burst the bubble here, but just recently in the last month or so, a new ocean was formed."
Christine Lolly is baffled by receiving a physical $500,000 check at a callback, while the other young stars admit they have never seen or held a check because their handlers manage all finances.
"I don't know, do you guys get checks? I don't get checks. Like I don't know, do I like scan it?"
"I've been repped since I was five years old so I've never like, I've never held one in my hands."
"One time someone gave me a check and it's because I was shooting something that was set in 1997. It was a prop."
The panel of rising stars introduce themselves, highlighting their niche accolades like 'floppiest hair' and roles in gritty teen dramas set in Alaska.
"I was on Vulture's top 10 floppiest haired boys of 2021."
"You can catch me right now on the HBO Max show set at a high school about all the troubled teens in a school in Alaska. It's called Diphtheria."
"I am in the new up and coming American Crime Story Debate series, where we're recreating all the debates and I'm playing Hillary Clinton."
The group gushes over Danny Dunkirk's new A24 film, though Christine finds it difficult to watch because she has actually visited Paris.
"I saw Boy in Paris at an advanced screening and it blew my mother fucking mind."
"I've been to Paris, so it was like really hard for me to watch, but I loved it."
