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We're Hangin' With.....The Stars of SLEEPOVER..... ALEXA VEGA and MIKA BOOREM: Direct from their movie set! by: Lynn B.
Alexa in a cute pink top and Mika, in red, were practicing hip hop moves between takes but we caught them finally sitting down with huge pink rollers in their hair to keep their look fresh while the crew set up for another shot. We had a very revealing gurltalk about crushes, sleepovers, music, school cliques…you name it. Tune in…. AGW: How did you choose the script? Alexa: It was a decision that my mom and I made together. We were looking for different scripts to get me out of Spy Kids. Before this I shot another movie that was completely different from Spy Kids; an independent about six suicide kids. It was very dramatic but I wanted a good transition role and this was it. I wanted something that showed me growing up and had a great story. As I read the script I thought two things. This movie can either be very cheesy or very real. When I talked to Joe (Nussbaum, the director), he said 'we want this to be the Sixteen Candles or Ferris Bueller's Day Off of our time' and that's what sold me on it. Because those were both very real, fun movies that everybody enjoys. AGW: Alexa, did you get to pick some of the other cast members? Alexa: I auditioned with a couple of the guys who were to play my boyfriend in the movie and I couldn't make it to the last couple of auditions which is where they found the guy but we have a great cast. AGW: You were doing a music video and some dancing. Any more plans for that? Alexa: I don't know. I've talked to Joe about it and he said we might do something for music for this film. But aside from all of this I'd like to do some music and have wanted to since I was little. If it's not possible for this film, I'll try to do it on the side. Mika and I have a dance class tonight. AGW: Mika, how did you come to do the movie? Mika: I met with Joe and he told me that Alexa was going to be in it and talked to me about and the part. He told me he really wanted me to be in the movie. That's how it worked out. AGW: How do you both feel now that you are wrapping this week? Is it bitter-sweet? Mika: I think mostly sweet because then we can goof off. [laughter]
Mika: Yeah, everyone on this show has been really nice. AGW: Did either of you have that weird peer group thing in school where the "cool" kids sit at one table at lunch? Mika: Oh yeah. I really see that in my school. It's very cliquey. Alexa: You have your groups…the popular kids, unpopular kids and average kids. I wasn't totally popular but not unpopular and I think that's a good place to be. To be unpopular and have people talk about you isn't good but then if you're popular you have so much to try to keep up with and it's even more difficult. I was just kind of average there. I don't think a lot of people like me at my school. When I first got there being "the Spy Kid" was a lot harder. I had soda poured all over me. Just your typical high school, kids being mean to other kids. Later on I got some really cool friends. But you're always going to get that one person that's hard to deal with. You can't please everyone. AGW: In the movie you and Mika are good friends and she moves away. Ever have that experience? Alexa: I haven't been going to school with anyone who moved away but I have a good friend, a guy who moved away. He lives in Oregon now which is really sad but he wasn't going to go to the same high school as I was either. But he comes back and visits. I have a best friend Serena whom I've known about nine years and I moved away. That was really hard but we still keep in touch and are there for each other. AGW: What about friends just growing apart? Alexa: I've had plenty of those. People change. Mika: I think that's harder than people moving away because you are constantly seeing them if you are not friends with them anymore. AGW: Have you ever had a sleepover similar to this? Alexa: Not one with sneaking out. All my sleepover experiences have been very unsuccessful. Something always goes wrong. But as long as you have fun it's okay. AGW: Have you been at a sleepover together yet? Mika: Not together but we're going to. Alexa: I went to one sleepover party where I had a really, really good time. It was with four of my girlfriends. I don't usually get along with too many girls but these girls were really cool. If you find people you really enjoy hanging around, that's when it's fun. It's mostly something for close friends. AGW: So are you more a tomboy with a lot of guy friends? Alexa: Yeah guy friends. All through junior high I didn't have any girlfriends at my school. They were very catty. It's a hard age right now. It's almost harder to please guys than girls. Guys are just more easy-going. I can be relaxed around them. Mika: Yeah, and if guys are mad at you, they'll just say it straight to your face. And girls will go talk about you behind your back. Alexa: Girls can just be catty. It's in our genes. AGW: Do you all hang out off set? Alexa: We haven't done a lot of that. We hang out on set. Tonight we have a dance class. I hang out with the guys off set though. [rolls eyes and laughs]. Mika: The class is hip hop, pop and lock. AGW: In Blue Crush, Mika, you were the baby sister. Are the tables turned in this movie?
AGW: Is this a hard age to find good roles? Alexa: At the moment it's all about teen girls but it wasn't last year. I wanted to do something between Spy Kids 2 and 3 and there was nothing. It was all teenage boys. There is stuff out there now but it's all rinky dink cheesy movies whereas I want one of those perfect cool Natalie Portman roles. She's always someone I've looked up to but there's nothing at the moment so I'm still looking. AGW: What about you, Mika, anything lined up next? Mika: I used to go to a French school. I'm going to France for the holidays and after than I'm coming back and I'm doing this movie that films in China and partly at Malibu High. I have the lead role in that one. AGW: Of the guys in this movie, who do you relate to the best? Both girls say "Shane" and laugh. Mika: There's Lance (Hunter Parrish), Miles (Shane Hunter) and Russell (Evan Peters) and of all of them I like Miles. Alexa: Miles rocks. Shane and I get along really well and Hunter always comes over to my house. We all hang out. Shane's really easy going so I relate to him the most. AGW: Who do you two have a crush on in Hollywood? Alexa: Orlando Bloom. Hottie. We tell the girls we're interviewing him later in the week and they go nutz! Alexa: You are sooo lucky. I'll just come and say 'I'm from the Sleepover fan club'. Is he still dating Kate (Bosworth)? We say he doesn't talk about it but we think so. AGW: Mika, who do you like? Mika: Josh Hartnett. He's still a cutie. Alexa: You know who has grown up and matured in a good way is Justin Timberlake. I didn't think that he would ever turn into what he is now and he's just incredible. I love his new CD. It's awesome, so great, soothing in every way. Mika: You're right. There's such a big difference between that and N' Sync. He's grown up and into his own. AGW: What about Music? What's in your CD player now? Alexa: I have it here with me. Right now it's Blink 182. I'm very eclectic. I love all sorts of music. If it's classical I listen to Beethoven. Actually one that I'm obsessed with at the moment and never thought I'd buy is the Hilary Duff CD, one called "Coming Clean". It's a very interesting, good song. Mika: I listen to a lot of different stuff. I like that Milkshake song. We've been dancing to it on set. It's so fun. [they start singing]. And I like Hot Hot Heat. I saw them in concert about a month ago. AGW: Is there an ideal character you would love to play? Alexa: If I could be someone in a movie I saw, I'd be Natalie Portman in Leon The Professional. Check it out. She's great. Mika: A movie I'd love to be in is Gangs of New York. I loved that movie. That whole period would have been fun to be in. The girls are approached by a hairdresser who takes the big pink rollers out of their hair and they are set upon by make-up artists and go back in front of the cameras to say "goodbye" yet one more time… Photos
by Dale Robinette
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15-year-old
dark-haired Alexa Vega played Carmen in the Spy Kids movies. Now, she's
growing up and moving on as the star of a comedy adventure with romance
called Sleepover, due out this Summer. The
film features gal-pals sneaking out on a wild scavenger hunt. Playing
Alexa's best pal is blonde, 16-year-old Mika Boorem, the youngest girl
surfer in the summer hit Blue Crush. The girls were filming Sleepover
in Glendale, California and we were on the set for their last day. They
were shooting a sad goodbye scene at a posh home on a beautiful tree-lined
street. 
Alexa:
Normally I'm really, really sad but I think for the first time, everything
is riding on my shoulders and it's kind of scary and intimidating yet
a little bit liberating. I'm happy yes and sad. The crew rocks though.
Mika:
[In Blue Crush] it was like the motherly thing. They would take me out
surfing. They'd teach me about things. My character in this script is
sort of motherly and is the older more mature one. I kind of felt some
of that on the set. This is like the 13th movie that I've done.