Check out Below Photos from Cameron's Photoshoot,BTS Pics and his Interview with Just Jared!
Photoshoot
Interview
Just Jared: What was your experience like at Sundance this year? Was it your first time?
Cameron Monaghan: Yeah, it was my first Sundance. It was really cool but exhausting. As soon as I landed, I started running from one place to the next and I never stopped. I basically got three hours of sleep for the three days I was there. BUT it was amazing. It’s cool because it’s a huge community of people who all love movies. I love movies, so I felt like I belonged there. I got to snowboard too!
JJ: Did you get to see your own movie, Jamie Marks Is Dead? Was it the first time you saw it?
CM: I did see my own. That was actually my first time. I saw it the night before the big screening and at the premiere, so I saw it twice. The cast all got together and had a DVD of it, and we watched it on the couch. We giggled through it. It was really exciting and nerve-wracking to have a theater full of people watch your movie and not have any idea if people are going to like it. And then know that you’re going to have to stand in front of them and answer questions about it. But, the response was really positive so it wasn’t actually stressful at all.
JJ: Can you explain your character in the film?
CM: I play the main guy, Adam McCormick. He’s this star track runner, and he briefly interacts with another boy who’s incredibly shy and he’s bullied. Nobody really pays any attention to him. At the beginning of the movie, he dies. He comes back as a ghost and I’m the only person that can see him. We strike up a friendship, but it becomes a little bit twisted because, well, he’s a ghost. (smirks)
JJ: Describe your co-stars in one word. Judy Greer.
CM: Hilarious.
JJ: Liv Tyler.
CM: Sweet.
JJ: Morgan Saylor.
CM: Relaxed.
JJ: Madisen Beaty.
CM: Playful.
JJ: Noah Silver.
CM: Affable.
JJ: Moving on to Vampire Academy, what was your favorite scene to shoot?
CM: Zoey [Deutch] and I had a fun fight scene. I love getting to shoot fight scenes in general. She was awesome, she was really good and really strong, and probably could kick my butt actually. (laughs) We used stakes. Well, they were wooden imitation stakes, ’cause when you’re in school, you don’t get the full thing until after you graduate. We had training stakes that we were fighting each other with.
JJ: What was your favorite off screen moment during shooting?
CM: Zoey and I got stuck in the Tube, on one of the very first days we got to London. (laughs) We were stuck in the train and we didn’t know what to do. So we started hanging on the bars, swinging back and forth, hanging upside and stuff. That was fun. The train just stopped in the middle and we were stuck. We didn’t have cell service either! We didn’t really know each other that well yet, so that was a really cool way to get to know somebody.
JJ: What’s your favorite prop from set?
CM: I didn’t get to use them but the full stakes, they’re metal, modern and slick. They have these holsters that they keep ‘em in. They’re really cool. I was jealous.
JJ: Describe your Vampire Academy co-stars in one word. Sarah Hyland.
CM: Caring.
JJ: Olga Kurylenko.
CM: HOT! (laughs)
JJ: Joely Richardson.
CM: Legend.
JJ: Zoey Deutch.
CM: Mercurial. (laughs) She’ll get really pissed at me if I steal her word. It’s her favorite word. (Zoey used “mercurial” to describe Cameron in her JJ Spotlight interview, ha!)
JJ: Sami Gayle.
CM: Friendly.
JJ: Danila Kozlovsky.
CM: Cool.
JJ: Lucy Fry.
CM: Nurturing.
JJ: Claire Foy.
CM: I need more words for friendly… Congenial.
JJ: Dominic Sherwood.
CM: Laid back is a compound word right?
JJ: Ashley Charles.
CM: Bro.
JJ: Now onto Shameless! Where are you at in shooting, have you finished this season?
CM: We’ve wrapped in LA, then I go to Chicago for a week in a few days.
Interview
Just Jared: What was your experience like at Sundance this year? Was it your first time?
Cameron Monaghan: Yeah, it was my first Sundance. It was really cool but exhausting. As soon as I landed, I started running from one place to the next and I never stopped. I basically got three hours of sleep for the three days I was there. BUT it was amazing. It’s cool because it’s a huge community of people who all love movies. I love movies, so I felt like I belonged there. I got to snowboard too!
JJ: Did you get to see your own movie, Jamie Marks Is Dead? Was it the first time you saw it?
CM: I did see my own. That was actually my first time. I saw it the night before the big screening and at the premiere, so I saw it twice. The cast all got together and had a DVD of it, and we watched it on the couch. We giggled through it. It was really exciting and nerve-wracking to have a theater full of people watch your movie and not have any idea if people are going to like it. And then know that you’re going to have to stand in front of them and answer questions about it. But, the response was really positive so it wasn’t actually stressful at all.
JJ: Can you explain your character in the film?
CM: I play the main guy, Adam McCormick. He’s this star track runner, and he briefly interacts with another boy who’s incredibly shy and he’s bullied. Nobody really pays any attention to him. At the beginning of the movie, he dies. He comes back as a ghost and I’m the only person that can see him. We strike up a friendship, but it becomes a little bit twisted because, well, he’s a ghost. (smirks)
JJ: Describe your co-stars in one word. Judy Greer.
CM: Hilarious.
JJ: Liv Tyler.
CM: Sweet.
JJ: Morgan Saylor.
CM: Relaxed.
JJ: Madisen Beaty.
CM: Playful.
JJ: Noah Silver.
CM: Affable.
JJ: Moving on to Vampire Academy, what was your favorite scene to shoot?
CM: Zoey [Deutch] and I had a fun fight scene. I love getting to shoot fight scenes in general. She was awesome, she was really good and really strong, and probably could kick my butt actually. (laughs) We used stakes. Well, they were wooden imitation stakes, ’cause when you’re in school, you don’t get the full thing until after you graduate. We had training stakes that we were fighting each other with.
JJ: What was your favorite off screen moment during shooting?
CM: Zoey and I got stuck in the Tube, on one of the very first days we got to London. (laughs) We were stuck in the train and we didn’t know what to do. So we started hanging on the bars, swinging back and forth, hanging upside and stuff. That was fun. The train just stopped in the middle and we were stuck. We didn’t have cell service either! We didn’t really know each other that well yet, so that was a really cool way to get to know somebody.
JJ: What’s your favorite prop from set?
CM: I didn’t get to use them but the full stakes, they’re metal, modern and slick. They have these holsters that they keep ‘em in. They’re really cool. I was jealous.
JJ: Describe your Vampire Academy co-stars in one word. Sarah Hyland.
CM: Caring.
JJ: Olga Kurylenko.
CM: HOT! (laughs)
JJ: Joely Richardson.
CM: Legend.
JJ: Zoey Deutch.
CM: Mercurial. (laughs) She’ll get really pissed at me if I steal her word. It’s her favorite word. (Zoey used “mercurial” to describe Cameron in her JJ Spotlight interview, ha!)
JJ: Sami Gayle.
CM: Friendly.
JJ: Danila Kozlovsky.
CM: Cool.
JJ: Lucy Fry.
CM: Nurturing.
JJ: Claire Foy.
CM: I need more words for friendly… Congenial.
JJ: Dominic Sherwood.
CM: Laid back is a compound word right?
JJ: Ashley Charles.
CM: Bro.
JJ: Now onto Shameless! Where are you at in shooting, have you finished this season?
CM: We’ve wrapped in LA, then I go to Chicago for a week in a few days.
