Stars of "Masters of the Universe" Nicholas Galitzine and Camila Mendes show off their hilarious chemistry as He-Man and Teela, and share how much they love the memes and their "yassified" action figures. Camila reveals how Nicholas almost cost her the role, and the duo reveal how they trained for their action-packed scenes (and famous He-Man mini skirt). Camila also dishes on celebrating her 30th birthday with a bounce house!
0:00 - Nicholas Galitzine & Camila Mendes Join The Kelly Clarkson Show 0:56 - Reacting to Having Toy Versions of Themselves 1:30 - Camila Mendes' 30th Birthday Party 2:32 - How Camila and Nicholas First Met 3:17 - Dealing with the Height Difference on Set of "Masters of the Universe" 4:30 - Their Favorite Things About Their Characters 5:39 - Nicholas and Camila Explain the Film's Improv 6:07 - Intense Physical Training and Dieting for Their Roles 8:02 - Nicholas Explains Delivering the Iconic "I Have the Power" Line 8:36 - Camila’s First Day on Set and Flying a Spaceship 9:30 - Dolph Lundgren’s Cameo and Passing the Torch 10:25 - "Masters of the Universe" Movie Release Details
Two actors, Nicholas and Camila, discuss their experiences filming a new project based on the \"Masters of the Universe\" franchise. They share stories about their initial chemistry, the physical demands of their roles, and the surreal experience of bringing nostalgic characters to life.
Thank you
It's like that's like older for me whenever I was younger and like that was I feel like my
Siblings like a little bit older than me had y'all known about he man or anything before
We knew the internet culture. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so I'd seen the memes Nick had seen the memes
Viral YouTube video. Yeah, what's up by the four non-blondes? Yeah, but we didn't know it was masters of the universe
And that was something we found out later. Well, I did I knew it was master
I've been lying the entire press, but you just keep speaking for me
We're already bickering I love it. I love it. No, so wait, but did you play like I feel like my my kids
They totally play were you like that when you play with like
Yeah, completely. Yeah, it's very surreal now that we have toy versions of ourselves because I wish I could just that was my name
She's a human have you seen the He-Man Barbie no obsessed with the He-Man Barbie because it has a little beauty mark
If she calls it yassified
That's cool though, but it's pretty good version of you would be like I am coolest. Oh, yeah, truly. Yeah
Yeah. Oh my god. Wait last time we talked. I feel like you were about to throw a party. Was it your 30th?
Yeah, you said you're gonna have a bounce
At the bounce house birthday that I told you about and it was amazing. Yeah
They're there. Look how fun I
Have been to many adult parties where there are bounce houses. It was amazing. We had face paint for
Ping-pong. Oh, it was like a kid's party for adults. Yeah, and I highly recommend it
No
I do think I always say this because I have kids that are 10 and 12 and that's we still play in the house like
Play and do stuff like that
I think that adults we miss out because we get too cool for school or we stop playing and stop celebrating birthdays
But I'm just playing in general. What's like a have you ever had a big party? That was like really epic. Oh
like a
Party person. No, really? It's so hard to get this one out of the house. I
Like the comfort of my own home
The wood I go to the woods and just
No, so talk about when you you two have such a great chemistry like even when you're talking all over each other
I love it. So when did you first meet was it for this project? It was at the chemistry read? Yeah
And I walked up to him and I said if it isn't the king of Amazon
I don't exclusively work with Amazon. I don't want to you know restrict myself to other employers
But I said I was the oh, it's the queen of Amazon. We did we started doing a bit my applause
And and then I commented on on how short you are
Me the job
Because we were we were doing our chem read and there was a little monitor where we could kind of see the frame of the
Shot and Nick looked at and he goes you're really tiny
And I'm auditioning for a warrior. So I was just like, can you not can't hear that enough my height right now?
Yeah, I had socks and my lady you had socks. How tall are you? I'm five three and a half. I'm six foot
You're like I am for sure five ten
For sure me too
it is interesting when people do see you in person though and you're on TV like even from like I don't I started people would
Be like, oh you're short and I'm like, I don't really know how to receive that
But they you appear taller that does happen like I run into actors or they'll come on here and I'm like, oh damn
Yeah turns out not six feet tall. You're lying. No, I'm five two. Yeah. No, I think it's great though
I think that's even cooler. I think that's what an amazing warrior to be like small, but it's just a different skill set
Yeah, now you're like Swift. Yeah, you like crawl under their legs. Yeah, kick them. I know
What did you like most about your characters though like playing them? Oh, I like the little mini skirt. Yeah
Now I have a different version of you in the woods
It's just fun though because like you come into work every day and and you're you know
There's kind of no costume to speak of but everyone has to be okay with that. Yeah, you know, you've got to be okay
They're gonna be and you just got to get comfortable with each other because it's so weird
Yeah, cuz there's not a lot of clothing. Is that what you're meaning? Yeah
No, I'm just saying I'm comfortable in that environment
Yeah, we've all got the same
I like that mentality. Yeah, I don't know. I'm very different. Yeah, my mother
Everywhere tomorrow
Man that I love anytime you see something that's personal nostalgic and like superhero vibes, but it's also hilarious
Yeah, I love that. They incorporate so much humor was any of it improv a lot. Yeah, I don't know how much of it
May be honest
I forget what's improv and what isn't but there were some lines in there that were improv that made it that I'm so happy
They did I'd say 90% of it was not the rating
The rating would have gone like up by like three. It would have been a very unhinged a movie
Yeah, if they let us yeah, they kept in all the air. Yeah, it's kind of fun
It makes it like you're in on the joke and like with it. I just said love when they do that. It's my favorite thing
What kind of training though cuz man you're talking about look if I had to walk around naked on set
I look like you I'd be absolutely fine
That's a lot of like and I'm funny but like that's a lot of athleticism man
That's a lot of training that you both have to do for this
It's it's crazy because you know you you hear like five months pre-production you think oh, wow
That's a lot of time really in the grand scheme of what we had to do. I mean, it's quite short
And you know you came in a month later, obviously
Yeah, but it was a really nice point of bonding because you know every day we'd be with each other for a few hours a
Did you just hate your life at first, I mean you get used to it but like that to get that lean
It's just really it's you're eating like way too much food at first
Sexy fine, but like it's that's hard to do people really trained to try and do that with their bodies. That's incredible
Yeah, it was so impressive
We could because we hardly had any time I had to do a lot of my cut while we were shooting and I remember I
You know would film a scene as Adam and they'd say you've got 10 minutes and I'd sprint outside to the exercise bike
And I got my exercise back 10 minutes, and then I run inside
Yeah, it was like, you know, it was it was it was non-stop. It was it was hard
It was probably one of the hardest things I've had to do is as an actor. Yeah. No, thank you
I mean, yeah, it was it was challenging in a different way. Obviously, I didn't have to transform. We were equally as big
When you see yourself like that's you man, I know you see yourself do you feel better I do
I almost don't like see it as me in a way because I'm so not that person in real life
It's fun. It's cool to step into that. Yeah, I would feel incredible. Yeah
Well, he man's famous line is I have the power true. So when's like the gym room the first time you said it in the
Oh, yeah, I mean it was there, you know, it was a big scene
Yeah, it was a lot of anticipation the whole crew had sort of assembled for it. Oh, no pressure. Yeah, it was like
It was it was I remember it was beautiful, you know, I said the line Travis came out he was crying all the crew started
Crying there were there were doves
And then I think there was a few explosions I can't really
Pretty sure there was explosions. Yeah
It's just cool to be able to say something like that's so nostalgic for people like certain lines
But your first day on set I heard was flying a spaceship. Yeah. Oh my god. That's a big first day
I feel oh my god. I was I was losing it because I had to act like, you know what you're doing
Yeah, so literally and we had a pilot come in not that this ship is a real thing that works
Yeah, but I was just like can you have a pilot come in and just show me what theoretically this could be and so he
Kind of walked me through all the buttons and and levers
I think he was like
Like I mean this could live
Yeah point this is thrusters
Cuz there is always it always freaks me out to whenever I remember when I first started flying
I took flying lessons, but you walk in the cockpit and I'm like
There's too many things here going on. Yeah
Yeah, like there's too many things to keep up with but then when you start flying you actually don't
Utilize like a lot of those things. Yeah, so I guess he is right in that sense
But I wanted to bring this up because the original He-Man
Dolph Lundgren has a cameo in the film. That's kind of cool. It was so amazing. I mean look
Very surreal, you know passing the torch moment obviously even beyond He-Man, you know, we're talking Rocky and
He's an icon
But so I was I was just trying to really nuts a fanboy and and and kind of let it you know
Conversation happen naturally and he's he's a ridiculously smart person as well. You know, he's I think he's literally like a
Chemical engineer graduated from MIT and so, you know, we just had a really and also was He-Man. Holy
It's kind of not fair cuz he's also like all the cars like Scandinavian God
Came out ready for the world
But we tried our best. Yeah, I think you did. All right
Okay, we have to take another break everybody give it up for Nicholas and Camila