Hanging out with Tomorrowland’s Raffey Cassidy

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I did receive an all expenses paid trip to the #Tomorrowlandevent press junket, but all quirks and humor are my own

One of the things that always blows my mind is when I interview kids in Hollywood. These kids are young enough to be my children, but they are so sophisticated yet the same time still kids. This perfectly describes Raffey Cassidy who stars as Athena in Tomorrowland.

 

Even though Raffey was only 12 years old during filming, she plays the “adult” in the movie. Through lots of twists and turns we find out she is from Tomorrowland and has known Frank since he was a child.

Of course one of the first things we wanted to know was what it was like to play a robotic “adult” that looked like a child. Even though Athena is a robot, there was a lot that Raffey could relate to in regards to her character. She shared,

If I had to choose [how I am like Athena], it would probably be optimism, because I think that I feel that I’m quite optimistic and always look on the bright side of a bad situation.

Athena has so many different  qualities. She’s optimistic. She’s intelligent. She’s wise, and I just kind of put all of those together, and I always had an image in my head for a scene, so it was never just go in cold into it and trying to create one in my head. I always had an image that would just help me and I’d always be able to think of to get me through this.

The neat thing about child actors, is you get to learn just what got them into acting. It’s really fascinating. Raffey is from England, so we were especially curious about how she became involved in Tomorrowland being so far away. Raffey remembered,

My brother went for an audition, and then they kind of asked me if I wanted to have a go at that. So I had to go and then in kind of started from there.

Since Raffey, did live so far away the audition process for Tomorrowland was a little bit different. She shared with us,

I just went up for like an audition, but it was a self-tape at home and then I went to London to do another screen test. And then I went to America to do another screen test. And then I found out that I got the part.

Even though the audition part was a little bit of work, Raffey had so much fun actually filming Tomorrowland. She was even taught how to drive at the tender age of 12! What 12 year old kid wouldn’t think that was awesome!? We chatted with her about her first scenes and her favorite part of filming. She laughed,

They actually taught me how to drive and, and there was a scene where I had to like go down a ramp and then stop. I think really I started to get a little too confident, and I got too close. Britt just went stop, because it got so close.

Tomorrowland has a really strong message about our future. We wanted to get a jist of what Raffey thought the future would be like. She was so enthused to say,

There was so much technology in the actual Tomorrowland and I think that that’s how it’s going to be in, I don’t know, 60 years’ time or something. So, I think that will be what the future.

Raffey Cassidy was truly adorable, and it was hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that I have a daughter her age. She’s professional, smart, and witty. She’s definitely one to watch out for in the future. She does an amazing job playing Athena and it’s unbelievable that such a little package can be such a power house on the big screen.

 

Make sure to read all the Tomorrowland interview to see what the rest of the cast and crew are all about! Check out this fun featurette here!

 

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