Here’s an interview from Starry Costellation Magazine with Robbie Jones. He talks about Hellcats and more!

Q. What are some of the recent projects that you’ve been working on?

A. “Hellcats” has pretty much taken up all of my time and it’s a very involved project where there are aspects of cheer and dancing that are involved in the character. We have to do cheer rehearsals and dance rehearsals and stuff like that along with shooting. It’s pretty time consuming so there hasn’t been a whole lot of time for anything else.

Q. How draining has all of that training been on you?

A. I wouldn’t say it’s been taxing, it’s actually been fun to get more in touch with my masculine dancing side. It’s been fun learning some things and learning about something I had no knowledge of prior to the start of this project. Coming from an athletic background, I just knew about athletics, I grew up playing on athletic teams but I had no idea about cheerleading and the whole concept of just cheers as a true athletic art form.

Q. What can you tell us about the show and about your character?

A. The show is based around a young girl named Marti Perkins and her mother works on campus and she has a scholarship because the school extends scholarships to the kids of the workers of the campus. They cut the financing for that program and her mom didn’t really tell her about it until the last minute. She’d depressed and in a funk because she doesn’t have the money to keep her in school so she needs to apply for some sort of scholarship to stay in school. She has a background of gymnastics and as a last ditch effort she rents Bring It On and tries to put together some moves that encompass her own unique dance style and her gymnastics background and bring it to cheerleading tryout. It’s about her and her journey to try and keep her scholarship and her joining the cheerleading squad. They are down one man and they needed her and it turns out to be a little more than they bargained for. My character Lewis is an ex football player who ends up coming out for the squad to keep his scholarship because he had some issues with the football team and he ends up coming out for the squad because of his girlfriend who is on the squad. He ends up liking it for obvious reasons, his girlfriend is around him all of the time, it’s kind of a cooler thing than what he thought it would be. It follows him and the progression of his relationship with Marti and his relationship with his on again, off again, girlfriend Alice.

Read the full interview at Starry Costellation Magazine

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