![]() ![]() ![]() “Whatever you have that’s unique should be celebrated and not hidden,” Donnelly says. “I think I will be the first person in our family to play a zombie.”īoth hope viewers of all ages, not just the tween and teen audience, will give “Zombies” a try, for all of the reasons they’ve mentioned already, but mostly for its message that you should be you and not worry what others think. “She couldn’t have been happier,” he says of her reaction when he landed this first role, earned him some family bragging rights. ![]() “It ended up looking super cool, having this mixture of both sides of dance,” says Manheim, who is the son of actress Camryn Manheim, an Emmy winner for her work on “The Practice.” “For ‘BAMM,’ it was really difficult because the zombies are supposed to look super cool,” Donnelly says of that musical number. “Learning the dances was not the hard part, it’s just that the dances were really difficult,” Manheim says. “The fact the zombies are unique and different, I guess that’s what it’s representing: being yourself.”īoth Donnelly and Manheim are featured prominently in the song-and-dance numbers that pop up throughout the movie, and both said those were some of the most fun moments on the set of the film made in Toronto over 10 weeks of rehearsal and shooting as well as some of the hardest work. “Seabrook is very conformed so everything looks the same, everything looks perfect,” Donnelly says. Like Manheim, she sees the value of the message the movie carries. “When I was 5 I wanted to be in ‘High School Musical,'” says says of the popular franchise from which “Zombies” is a clear descendant. Being different is not something we should look down on.”ĭonnelly, who’s been acting for much of her life, says playing Addison is a dream come true. “I grew up in doing theater and that wasn’t the norm for boys,” says Manheim, for whom “Zombies” is his first professional role. “Zombies don’t feel like they’re being accepted in this town. “I think zombies, they’re representing everyone who’s different and unique in their own way,” says Milo Manheim, 16, who plays Zed. (Zombies in “Zombies” don’t kill you there’s a cure that puts them on a brains-free diet.) (You mostly know they’re zombies by their pale skin, green hair, and fresh dance moves.)Īddison and zombie Zed form an attraction for each other and through that spark end up bringing their tribes together. The set-up for “Zombies” will be familiar to anyone who’s seen a Disney Channel movie before: There’s fear and estrangement between the human kids, who are eerily uniform in lifestyle and personality, and the zombie kids, who are the individualists. The multi–talented actor/host/recording artist RuPaul Charles (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”) joins the cast as the voice of “The Mothership,” a comedically passive-aggressive UFO that brings the aliens to earth.“I looked into it more and thought, ‘Wow, this is really cool: zombies with humans, but zombies aren’t liked by humans,'” says the 17-year-old who also appears on the ABC sitcom “American Housewife.” EDT/PDT with a special encore premiere featuring additional bonus footage and a brand new “lost song” musical number. “ZOMBIES 3” will be coming to Disney+ on July 15th and it will then make its Disney Channel debut on Friday, August 12th at 8:00 p.m. It also stars Chandler Kinney as Willa, Ariel Martin as Wynter, Pearce Joza as Wyatt, Carla Jeffery as Bree, Trevor Tordjman as Bucky, Kylee Russell as Eliza, Terry Hu as A-spen, Matt Cornett as A-lan, Kyra Tantao as A-li, James Godfrey as Bonzo and Kingston Foster as Zoey. Then suddenly, extraterrestrial beings arrive in Seabrook, provoking something other than friendly competition. Zed is anticipating an athletic scholarship that will make him the first zombie to attend college, while Addison is gearing up for Seabrook’s first international cheer-off. The film stars Milo Manheim as zombie Zed and Meg Donnelly as cheerleader Addison, who are beginning their senior year at Seabrook High in the town that’s become a safe haven for monsters and humans alike. Disney has released some new photos from “ZOMBIES 3”, giving a first look at a new group of mysterious outer space aliens to the diverse student body of zombies, cheerleaders and werewolves at Seabrook High. ![]()
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