Rachel Zegler Unpacks ‘Y2K’s Porta Potty Scene At SXSW Premiere
deadline.comRachel Zegler and the cast of A24’s Y2K had a blast describing a favorite scene where a group of fleeing high school students slide, tumble and bump down a hill inside an overflowing porta potty “So, like, the big sh*t — let’s just nip it in the bud — the big sh*t was hot chocolate mix with glycerin, so it smelled amazing.
And it was really confusing to shoot that,” said the star of the Kyle Mooney disaster comedy that premiered at SXSW tonight.
The Porta Potty “was on its side, on shocks. Yeah, it was actually bouncing up and down,” Zegler said. “And you can see lovely [co-star] Jaeden Martell here was covering my ear because I kept talking about how I didn’t want water in my ears.
And Evan kept saying ‘get your hand off her ear, we can’t see her face.’ But the take that got used was Jaeden protecting my ear,” she said in Q&A after the screening. “The actual Y2K was such a letdown if you lived it.
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