E: Hi Janel! How are you?
J: Good and you?
E: Good! So you're in California right now?
J: Yes, I am.
E: Did you have a nice holiday?
J: Yes I did, I had dinner with my parents. I helped
make the turkey and the pumpkin pie.
E: Can you cook?
J: (Laughing) No really. Not really well.
E: Yeah me neither. Did you get to go back to Hawaii
or did you have the holiday in California?
J: I had the holiday in California. A lot of my
family is out in Hawaii, but I only get to go back once a year.
E: So you have sampled the music and the acting
scene, which one do you like better?
J: Ohh… they both are so different, I love them
both so much, I can't really choose one over the other. I can't
see my self doing one without the other.
E: So what about piano, you started out doing that
right?
J: I started playing the piano when I was six years
old and I started writing music. Piano goes hand in hand with
me singing, everything I'm singing I'm usually at my piano.
E: Awesome! Do you have an album coming out? I saw
your first music video on You Tube.
J: Aw thank you so much. Yes I do have an album
coming out. I'm with Geffen records and my album should be coming
out some time next year.
E: That's so exciting, so are you in the process
of working on that now?
J: Yes I'm writing right now and I will be in the
studio shortly
E: Wow you're a busy girl!
J: It's so exciting and so unexpected I'm enjoying
every minute of it!
E: Oh that's great! Did you have ideas of what you
wanted to be before you decided to be in the entertainment industry?
J: No because I decided to be in the entertainment
industry when I was like 5. Phantom of the Opera came to the theater
in Hawaii and I went to go see it and I just feel in love with
it. I told my parents I wanted to be on stage. And then I ended
up being on Broadway so music was always been a huge part of my
life and acting followed after that.
E: So what were you in on Broadway?
J: I was in Les Miserable.
E: Very cool, definitely one of my favorites.
J: Me too. I just loved it so much.
E: When did you decided to make the big move to
L.A.?
J: Well I was going back and forth from Hawaii to
L.A. for auditions and then I began to spend the whole summer
out here. So I guess five years ago when I was 14 my parent said
"since we've been spending so much time out here and this
is what you really want to do" we'll move here for you.
E: Do you have any brothers and sisters that come
with you?
J: I have an older sister she's in the army.
E: I just saw The Bratz Movie.
J: Aw did you like it.
E: I did. How did you like it?
J: It was so much fun, the best experience ever.
I made some amazing best friends and it was a really fun set.
It was a really fun movie and I had a great time making it.
E: That's awesome, was there any drama on the set?
Did everyone get along?
J: Surprisingly yes. You would think that there
would be drama with 5 girls. But honestly their was no drama at
all. They were the easies group of girls to get along with. We
were very lucky and we all became best friends
E: Do you keep in touch?
J: Yes we talk all the time.
E: Did you get to go to High School? Or did you
take classes on the rode?
J: I went to a year of Public School in Hawaii and
then moved out here after and then I've been home schooling.
E: Do you think The Bratz had any kind of relation
to your High School?
J: Definitely, I think that there are always cliques
and there is always that one mean girl, in everyone's High School.
And it everyone's life so Bratz was very realistic for me. The
Bratz was definitely a exaggerated form of High School, but it
does have a lot of similarities to Bratz.
E: Awesome. So I heard you are helping to send for
girls to college? What's that about?
J: It's a scholarship contest and basically what
it is, all the girls send in essays saying why they are passionate
about their life and what they are going to do with their passion.
And we will pick 4 winner and we are giving up to 50, 000 dollars
in scholarships.
E: That's great. So you are also doing a lot on
TV. What was your favorite show to work on?
J: Well Heroes was pretty overwhelming to be on
since I love that show. It was my dream to be on that show. But
Zoey 101 was pretty fun because it was a goofy fun and over the
top, and I got quail legged and I'm sure that will never ever
happen again ever in my life.
E: So on Heroes were your episodes air already?
J: Yes I was on two episodes so far.
E: And Kristyn here would like to know, you were
the cheerleader right?
J: Yes yes but I was the nice cheerleader though.
There was a mean cheerleader and a nice one and I got to play
the nice one.
E: What was the cast like on Heroes? Did you get
to meet the whole cast?
J: I so wanted to meet Milo but he was never there
when I was. But I got to meet Hayden and she's a really sweet
girl. And I meet Adair who plays Molly and she it just the cutest
thing ever, you would never believe that she is only 9; she acts
like a thirty year old in the body of a little girl.
E: So what's next? Just working on your album? Do
you have any movies or TV shows coming up?
J: I'm auditioning currently for one of them, my
fingers are crossed
E: That's great. We wish you luck.
J: Thanks! But yeah I'm definitely working on my
album. I just did a video with for NLP, She Said, I Said, I was
featured in it and that was really fun.
And they were on out soundtrack so I got to meet them and I was
like "ah I love you guys" They are awesome
E: So what kind of sound is your album gonna have?
J: Most of my stuff is piano based, I write almost
all my own music. But I'm a dancer as well so put some stuff on
that I can dance too. So it's got a different sound its like piano
meets cool beats.
E: Well that's good I think a lot of variety on
albums is a good thing it helps you to relate you lots of audiences.
J: Yes and I like to listen you my favorite artists
and learn from them and take from them.
E: Who are some of you favorite artists?
J: I love people who write there own music like
Robin Thick, Jon McLaughlin, Jewel, Sarah McLaughlin and of course
John Legend.
E: We were actually checking out your myspace today
and saw that you had Beautiful Disaster on there. Now do you do
your own MySpace?
J: I actually do my own MySpace. I answer all my
fan mail, I love the fans.
E: SO when you're not working what else do you do
for fun?
J: I like to hang out with my friends, I like to
go hiking and going to Six Flags and riding rollercoaster's and
going shopping.
E: And do you have a lot of free time? You must
be pretty busy?
J: I'm not that busy on the weekends, so I hang
out with my friends then and then during the week I do whatever
I have to do with my songs and auditions and dance classes and
all that.
E: Well that's all we have. But thank you so much
for talking with us!
J: Thanks! It was nice talking with you
E: Thanks you too! Take Care!
J: You too
