![]() ![]() ![]() Teo Briones:He was just a delight to work with. They’re all just the sweetest people ever. I learned so much from them and Jennifer and Fiona. They’re veterans to the business and acting and stuff. You get used to it.” Especially people like Devon and Lexa, who played my parents. None of the new cast had ever worked with dolls like that before, so it was funny working with them finally and being used to it, because we all found it kind of annoying sometimes. They’ve been obviously in not just the business, but Chucky for so long, that they know how it goes. PopHorror:What was it like filming with the OG stars like Jennifer Tilly and Alex Vincent ( our interview)? Once the show started coming out, I started getting a following on social media, and I realized how diehard all of these fans are. and went to Beyond Fest, and there were all these people dressed in Chucky stuff. I didn’t really get the scope of the fanbase actually until after we had finished filming. Was there pressure coming in as a new person? PopHorror:That doll has quite the diehard fanbase. I was like, “Yeah, I have to do this.” Teo Briones with Chucky and Devon Sawa That’s so cool.” I did it because I fell in love with the role and the show, the writing and everything in the first episode’s script, which is all I had read at that point, but it was really great. My decision for taking the job, I didn’t take it because, “Oh, this is Chucky. You just kind of audition for whatever comes in. ![]() Teo Briones: For auditioning, you don’t really decide. What made you decide to audition for the Chucky show? PopHorror:I understand that you hadn’t seen any of the Child’s Play films. ![]() I had also read the first episode’s script, and I was just in love with the show and the character and the writing. I had a meeting with Don, and he basically offered the job and also explained Junior’s arc and the development that he would go through as a character in this first season. That’s the one he was supposed to audition for in the first place. Then I auditioned for Junior, and that’s when they realized, that’s it. I got an audition for Chucky, and I actually auditioned for Jake. Teo Briones:It was around January/February of this year. PopHorror:That’s awesome! Can you walk me through how and when you got the role of Junior? Teo Briones: Ratched, I was actually fortunate to be in the show with my dad, which was really cool! He played Dr. PopHorror:I saw you’ve been in so many cool shows over the years, like Pretty Little Liars and Ratched. When I was 5 years-old, everyone was going on auditions every day and I was like, “When am I gonna start having auditions?” My parents said, “Alright, I guess it’s time.” My first audition actually, I booked, and then from there I was hooked. My sister is an amazing actress and singer. My parents met on stage touring in the Broadway musical, Miss Saigon. Teo Briones:I’m in a family of very talented performers. I understand it’s something you’ve been doing for some time now? PopHorror:Before we get into Chucky, I’d love to learn more about your background in acting. Briones also revealed his favorite, yet admittedly disturbing, moment from the entire Chucky experience. On the heels of the season finale, PopHorror chatted with Briones about Junior’s shocking transition from good to evil, his early roots in acting, what it was like working with the OG Child’s Play stars, and the technical difficulties that sometimes came with having a doll as a co-star. This all culminated in Junior beating his father to death with Chucky, with whom he sang a dazed duet of “We Got The Beat” by the Go-Go’s while drenched in his dad’s blood. He was forced to live with his sculpture-building cousin after Chucky electrocuted Jake’s father (Devon Sawa: Final Destination 2000) to death, received endless pressure from his own father (also Sawa) to be a track star, and had a front seat view as his mother, Bree (Lexa Doig: Jason X 2001), crashed into the family car’s windshield after Chucky pushed her from a high window. Throughout season one of Chucky, viewers witnessed Junior’s downward spiral. It follows everyone’s favorite supernaturally possessed Good Guys doll as he wreaks havoc on the lives of four Hackensack, New Jersey teens: Junior, his cousin, Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur), his girlfriend, Lexy Cross (Alyvia Alyn Lind) and friend, Devon Evans ( Björgvin Arnarson). The series, created by Don Mancini-the brains behind the Child’s Play franchise-recently wrapped up its first season, with a second one slated to air in 2022. But after learning about the character’s drastic shift from dating the most popular girl in school to committing patricide, he was hooked. When 16-year-old Teo Briones first auditioned for SYFY’s new Chucky series, the role of Junior Wheeler wasn’t the initial one he went for. ![]()
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