Collider Interview with Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden

What did doing this as a web series allow for, that you wouldn’t have been able to do on TV?

RATHBONE: It’s interesting, we got out of the constraints of network television. Even if you look at network television, the constraints are getting a little wider. They’re pushing the boundaries, constantly. What we wanted to do was push the boundaries on the internet, a little bit. It’s not that racy. We’re not saying anything that’s highly inappropriate. It’s not a Quentin Tarantino script. But, it’s really fun, it’s edgy and it’s 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 parlayed into Eclipse and the other Twilight films, and I’ve kept my stunt guys. There’s a group called Real Kicks, based in Los Angeles, that I work with all the time now. I brought them on to the rest of the Twilight films, and they choreographed the stunt scenes for us in Aim High. It was exciting. It was really fun. But, at the end of the day, the easiest training is just human instinct. When someone is swinging a knife at you, just avoid getting cut. Do not get cut. That’s the whole point.

What does it say about high school that being a teenage assassin seems easier?

RATHBONE: High school is rough, man. It can be like war. My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in the morning. They would use a cattle prod and just shock me, or throw boiling water on me, or fire a gun next to my head, to get me out of bed. I hated going to school, mainly because my sister would drive me and she would put her make-up on while she drove. That’s dangerous. That should be illegal.

Amy, did this compare to your high school experience, in any way?

TEEGARDEN: I wasn’t really around too much. I graduated when I was 15, so I didn’t have the traditional high school experience. I just kept going, for all four years, and condensed it down. And then, I was working full-time, which is not something that a typical 16-year-old does. But, no matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are. I think there’s a lot of really different, fun characters in this series, that a lot of people can relate to.

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