Rachel Zegler Promises Y2K Is Unlike Any Coming-of-Age Movie You've Ever Seen

Like a true Y2K party, Collider’s media studio at SXSW 2024 was thrilled to invite most of the cast to sit and chat about the making of Mooney’s directorial debut. We got to chat with Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Mason Gooding, Lachlan Watson, and Daniel Zolghadri about their time spent on set. Mooney talks about how the idea came to be, and the cast share how they got involved, Wētā’s involvement in the shenanigans, and tons more.For Zelger, who previously worked with Steven Spielberg and recently starred in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, this was an entirely new adventure. She shared why she had to join this epic cast:

“It was so fun to read because I like when things go a little differently than you expect. It’s so fun to read stuff like that on the page and then see it come to life on a screen, both while you’re filming it and then when you see the finished product. You really think it’s a very coming-of-age, these two kids are gonna own New Years, [then] midnight strikes and things go a little differently than you think they’re gonna go. It was really fun to read. It was so different than anything I had read before, and certainly different than anything I had ever done before, so it was just an immediate yes.”

As all good ideas do, the inspiration behind Y2K was born of a New Year's Eve party and texts between two friends. In the movie, Martell leads as the shy Eli who, with his best friend Danny (Dennison), are two “loser dudes” determined to change their high school fate by attending the cool kids’ New Year's Eve party. Just as Eli is making headway in the romance department, all hell breaks loose at midnight, and the party-goers must band together if they want to survive the new millennium. Y2K also stars Alicia Silverstone, Eduardo Franco, Tim Heidecker, and more.They also talk about Mooney’s plans to direct in the future, Dennison gives an update on filming for the live-action How to Train Your Dragon, and Zegler reveals why she’s no longer in Paddington 3, and more.

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