Ryne Sanborn - December 2, 2007

Tommy: Ryne how ya doin?

Ryne: Good, how are you?

Tommy: Good! Now the DVD release for High School Musical 2 is just around the corner and last week you were at the DVD launch event with the rest of the cast. How'd that go?

Ryne: Awesome! It was so much fun. There were so many great fans there and we got to do a bunch of really awesome interviews and meet a while bunch of cool people. So it was a ball.

Tommy: Now at that they actually had a screening for the movie. Did you actually get to see that or were you like doing interviews the whole time you were there?

Ryne: Yeah, well we got to come out and say hi to everybody and we got to say a few things but we had to leave right after so we so we didn't actually get to sit down and watch it.

Tommy: That's the life of a movie star right?

Ryne: Yeah.. yeah, haha.

Tommy: After it there was an afterparty. Were there any big names there?

Ryne: There was some of the kids from the Disney Channel like the kids that plays Rico on Hannah Montana and Madison the little girl from Game Plan so... mostly it was just Disney fans that are fans of the movie were there. But of course Kenny (Ortega) and all the big Disney executives were there and stuff. So it was fun.

Tommy: Cool. Now as far as the movie - one memorable scene featuring your character Jason Cross is the song Work This Out. What was it like to shoot that segment?

Ryne: Awesome! That was easily one of my favorite dance numbers just cause it was so like different from all the other ones. You know the choreography of the dance was a lot more - it was just a lot more, all the other dances seemed to be more pop culture kinda stuff and that one was more funky and I like that because we were doing it in a kitchen and we got to play with a bunch of random things and bang on pots and stuff. That was one my favorite dances, just cause of that.

Tommy: What's it been like to be part of this thing called High School Musical?

Ryne: A dream come true! A fantasy life basically, I can't even, I could've never imagined a couple of years ago that I'd be where I'm at right now. It's like I figured it be another one of those Disney Channel Originals that, you saw every here and there and never thought anything of it. But, it's amazing to see that it's turned into such a phenomena and we've got people begging us for a third one, so it's ridiculous.

Tommy: And would you be interested in doing a third?

Ryne: Absolutely, would totally love to.

Tommy: Now one thing unique about you in that cast is that you're from Utah.

Ryne: Mmhmm.

Tommy: Has that been a good thing or a bad thing to be close to the state where you're shooting?

Ryne: I think that it was a kind of a little bit of both maybe. Ya know cause there's definitely a huge advantage of being out in LA when you're trying to pursue and acting career, but at the same time ya know living out here and having the movie be shot out here I felt like I had an advantage to all the other cast members cause it's kinda like my home state. Plus, I love that everyone is from LA and I get to rep Salt Lake City. The movie is shot in Salt Lake City and I love being from here, so.

Tommy: And of course with Utah, you're into a lot of the winter sports like Snowboarding and Hockey.

Ryne: Absolutely!

Tommy: Which one of those is your favorite?

Hockey always is my favorites sport, but I've kinda stopped playing it over the last couple of years so Snowboarding is definitely taking its place right now.

Tommy: Is that having a lot to do with your career or other things?

Ryne: Well, ya know I haven't... it's kind of still a transitional phase. It's ya know... I'm trying to move out to LA but I'm kinda staying here cause I'm doing school out here. But at the same time Snowboarding season and all this other stuff is about to start up so I'm kinda thinking I'm gonna hang out here for just a little while before I go out to LA.

Tommy: Now I'm always looking for some new facts and a fun thing would be for you to give us a run down if you were to play sports or some other winter activity with the cast of High School Musical - based on their personality, which snow activity would the choose? Would it be Snowboarding, Hockey, Making a Snowman or having Hot Chocolate in the Lodge. So I'm just gonna read you the names and you can say which one of those four you'd think they'd want to do.

Ryne: Alright

Tommy: Zac Efron

Ryne: Snowboarding

Tommy: Vanessa Hudgens

Ryne: Hot Chocolate in the Lodge

Tommy: Ashley Tisdale

Ryne: Hot Chocolate in the Lodge

Tommy: Lucas Grabeel

Ryne: Snowboarding definitely!

Tommy: Corbin Bleu

Ryne: Ya know he'd be kind of a mix between Hockey and Snowboarding cause I know he wants to try Hockey, so I'd say Hockey and Snowboarding.

Tommy: Monique Coleman

Ryne: Snowboarding! She's a daredevil. She'll do anything.

Tommy: And KayCee Stroh

Ryne: I would say Hockey cause her family has a lot of Hockey players in her family. So I'd say Hockey.

Tommy: Now, aside from High School Musical do you have anyprojects in the future that we could look forward to?

Ryne: Well, I've been reading a lot of scripts and I've been going on quite a few auditions and coming close to quite a few things but It's kind of tough because High School Musical doesn't have a set date right now and I know I want to do that so I haven't really committed to anything yet. Right now my big focus is right now are just school - I'm studying Architecture at the University of Utah and that's pretty much it. Doing school and reading scripts and just kind of taking it as it comes.

Tommy: And for those people that want to stay up to date with you is there any way they can keep track with you online?

Ryne: There's... I know IMDB keeps up pretty well with everything but I haven't actually seen, but I've heard of a fan site that someone made for me that kinda of keep tracks of it at FanForums.com or something that I've heard about, so they could check that out.

Tommy: Alright Ryne, thanks for checking in with us today.

Ryne: Absolutely!

Tommy: And of course I want to remind everybody they can pick up High School Musical 2 on DVD and Blu-Ray on December 11th!

Ryne: Mmmhhmmm.

Tommy: We'll talk to you later.

Ryne: Thank you so much.