Getting Real with Chrissie Fit & Jordan Fisher from Teen Beach 2! #TeenBeach2Event

Getting Real with Chrissie Fit & Jordan Fisher from Teen Beach 2!

By Erin

*I attended as a guest of Disney. I received an all expense paid press trip for the Inside Out/Phineas and Ferb/Teen Beach 2/Celebrity Family Feud event. All opinions are my own.*

The next chapter to Disney Channel’s outrageously popular “Teen Beach Movie” will be premiering this summer on June 26th at 8PM EST. “Teen Beach 2”, A Disney Channel Original Movie — starring the original foursome from the sing-and-dance hit, Ross Lynch (Disney Channel’s “Austin & Ally”), Maia Mitchell (ABC Family’s “The Fosters”), Garrett Clayton and Grace Phipps is ready to roll, but this time, is set in the modern-day high school attended by Brady (Lynch) and Mack (Mitchell) with their 1960’s silver screen friends Lela (Phipps) and Tanner (Clayton) stuck in it. A plan must be made to get their friends back to their old-fashioned movie world before it’s too late.

To celebrate this occasion we had the pleasure to meet up with and chat with the ever popular Chrissie Fit (Chee-Chee) and Jordan Fisher (Seacat) who also star in the movie. You might have also seen that they gave us a dance lesson in a previous post the other day, so be sure to check that out as well. Those two sure can move! And the rest of us, well we tried. We can move, just maybe not as gracefully or as fast. 😉 Chrissie and Jordan were such a joy to talk to, so come join in the conversation with us!

TEEN BEACH 2 - "Teen Beach 2" stars Chrissie Fit and Jordan Fisher participate in a Mom blogger event to celebrate the movie's June 26, 2015 premiere. (Disney Channel/Valerie Macon) CHRISSIE FIT

Chrissie Fit. Photo Credit: Disney Channel/Valerie Macon

One of the first things we all wanted to know was  about their dance backgrounds and if they started out as singers and then got into dancing or what?

Chrissie Fit told us, “I’m not a Professional Dancer, although Teen Beach 2 makes me look like one. I am Cuban. So I grew up in a household where we were dancing Salsa, Meringue and you know it was a dance kind of loving family. I was a Singer and then I became an Actress so I don’t really have a dance background.  I think I learned the most doing the Teen Beach Movie and I appreciate it so much.”

TEEN BEACH 2 - "Teen Beach 2" stars Chrissie Fit and Jordan Fisher participate in a Mom blogger event to celebrate the movie's June 26, 2015 premiere. (Disney Channel/Valerie Macon) JORDAN FISHER

Jordan Fisher. Photo Credit: Disney Channel/Valerie Macon

 Jordan Fisher had this to say about how he got started dancing. “You know you walk into a rehearsal full of a bunch of people that you watch on So You Think You Can Dance and incredible choreographers, incredible dancers and you walk in.  Yeah I’m an Actor.  I walk in I’m like, “Okay here we go, let’s get this going.”  I had a crush on a girl in the 5th grade who joined the Drama Club and so I loved that, joining the Drama Club.  And so I started acting and singing and dancing all on the same day and like when I was 10.”

TEEN BEACH 2 - "Teen Beach 2" stars Chrissie Fit and Jordan Fisher participate in a Mom blogger event to celebrate the movie's June 26, 2015 premiere. (Disney Channel/Valerie Macon) CHRISSIE FIT, JORDAN FISHER

Chrissie & Jordan during our interview. Photo Credit: Disney Channel/Valerie Macon

While we were on the topic of singing, dancing and acting it was only fitting to ask them if they had any advice for an aspiring Musician, Artist, or Dancer?

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Bloggers Getting Their Jam on With “Gotta Be Me” From Teen Beach 2 #TeenBeach2Event

Bloggers Getting Their Jam on With “Gotta Be Me” From Teen Beach 2

By Erin

Everyone, it’s time to get your jam on!  Teen Beach 2″ is creating waves and will be surfacing on the Disney Channel on June 26th! We’re already on our feet and dancing to the beat!  This was all part of the Inside Out Event that I attended earlier this week.”Teen Beach 2″ stars Chrissie Fit and Jordan Fisher attempted to teach 25  of us bloggers the dance to “Gotta Be Me,” one of the hit (and very catchy may I add!) songs from the new movie to celebrate the movie’s June 26, 2015 premiere at 8PM EST on the Disney Channel.

TEEN BEACH 2 - "Teen Beach 2" stars Chrissie Fit and Jordan Fisher participate in a Mom blogger event to celebrate the movie's June 26, 2015 premiere. (Disney Channel/Valerie Macon) CHRISSIE FIT, JORDAN FISHER

Photo Credit: Disney Channel/Valerie Macon

I’m sure you can tell, for those watching, this must have been a very interesting and hilarious sight to see 25 bloggers trying to learn a dance like this! I’m in the 2nd row here, 2nd from the right. From what I can tell here, I’ve at least got the same arm back as both Jordan and Chrissie do! Haha! There were no mirrors in the room, so if you were in the back of the room, it was really hard to see what was going on. We rotated what rows we were in every few minutes so that everyone got a chance to see the moves we *should* be doing.  We all get an A for effort I’d say. 😉

TEEN BEACH 2 - "Teen Beach 2" stars Chrissie Fit and Jordan Fisher participate in a Mom blogger event to celebrate the movie's June 26, 2015 premiere. (Disney Channel/Valerie Macon) JORDAN FISHER, CHRISSIE FIT

Photo Credit: Disney Channel/Valerie Macon

Jordan and Chrissie were both so sweet and patient with us. They really slowed the dance down for us  at 1/8 speed so we could learn it correctly. The dance scenes in the movie are very elaborate and beautiful to watch, but they are not hard to learn. I don’t think we captured that elaborate look for the dance, but we sure did have fun! It was only about 20 minutes or so, but it was a mini workout for sure with all the moving and turning and jumping around. We all had a blast, even if we were crashing into each other or stepping on toes, it was a good laugh. Jordan and Chrissie were very high energy and kept us on our toes the entire time, giving us encouragement to make it our own, and to be ourself and add some attitude to the dance. That IS the name of the song right? “Gotta Be Me” Makes sense…

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