Twilight Eclipse Trailer – On the new Facebook and Cambio 6-part web series Aim High, premiering on October 18th, Nick Green (The Twilight Saga star Jackson Rathbone) is a top agent for the U.S. government. Hes effective, clever and deadly, and a 16-year-old high school student. And, if all of that wasnt tough enough, Nick is interested in Amanda (Friday Night Lights star Aimee Teegarden), a cool rocker chick dating the captain of the schools championship swim team. With a look and feel equal to the quality of any TV show or big screen movie, this fully interactive web series certainly seems like a sign of things to come. At a press day to promote Aim High, co-stars Jackson Rathbone (who is also a producer on the series) and Aimee Teegarden spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about how this project came about for both of them, how the idea of the personalization aspect is really going to change the way that people consume entertainment, training to play a top spy, and what makes high school more difficult than being a teenage assassin. They both also talked about closing the recent chapters in their own lives with Rathbone finishing the Twilight Saga films, and Friday Night Lights coming to a close on television for Teegarden and how bittersweet it was to say goodbye. Check out what they had to say after the jump. Question Jackson, as a producer and actor in this, how did this project come about for you? What made you want to get involved with a web series? JACKSON RATHBONE In pre-production, Wonderland brought me in as a producer and actor, and we discussed a lot about what we wanted to do with the show.
We didnt want to just create another web series. We wanted to do something new and innovative, and we talked a lot about the Facebook integration. But, we had to make the show first, and we had to find an amazing leading lady that would get all the boys riled up, so we asked Aimee Teegarden to come in and help us out with that. We were really excited about the process of making the show. We were running and gunning, and shootin from the hip. We shot with 7Ds and 5Ds, as the cameras we used, and we did it all in eight days, but it looks aesthetically like any show that would be on a network. Now, with the personalization integration, we have something that no one has ever done before.
And, the fact that were premiering on Facebook is exciting. Its an exciting, new time. Aimee, did you get any input into your character? AIMEE TEEGARDEN When I came on, the character was pretty developed, but it was really fun to shoot. We had a couple takes with everything because we were just running and gunning, but we got to play around a bit with the characters.
I had such a fun time. The idea of the personalization is really going to change the way that people consume entertainment. I feel like television, as it is now, isnt going to be the same, in a couple of years. RATHBONE No one really has television that much, anymore. TEEGARDEN I dont have a TV at my house. I literally do not.
I have a television, but I dont have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs. RATHBONE My buddy has a TV in our house, but I dont watch TV much.
Every once in awhile, it will be on, and Ill walk by and turn it off, and hell be like, Hey, man, I was watching that, and Im like, Read a book! What did doing this as a web series allow for, that you wouldnt have been able to do on TV? RATHBONE Its interesting, we got out of the constraints of network television. Even if you look at network television, the constraints are getting a little wider. Theyre pushing the boundaries, constantly. What we wanted to do was push the boundaries on the internet, a little bit. Its not that racy. Were not saying anything thats highly inappropriate. Its not a Quentin Tarantino script. But, its really fun, its edgy and its that dark comedy. It rides the line. It toes it and sneers at it. Jackson, did you have to do a lot of training to convincingly play a top spy? RATHBONE Yeah. I trained in martial arts when I was younger, and then I did a lot of training for The Last Airbender, which p
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