Peyton Jackson stars in 'Victorious' spin-off 'Hollywood Arts'

Welcome back. If you scroll through Netflix, you'll probably notice a new series called Hollywood Arts. Atlanta native and rising star Peyton Jackson is one of the stars. This one goes out to Trina, our brand new teacherina. No cap, no cap, no cap, no cap. Trying to sing about what's happened so far. Red cap, red cap, red cap, red cap. Cycle it out, Trina. Ain't got her own origin story. Like a sister named Tori who's famous. Trina helped find the hidden talent of our techie. Hey! And Peyton joins us now to talk about his character on the show and what you can expect when it comes to the new series. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Good. Okay. So that was my first time kind of like checking you out. What did you think? Oh, you're talented. You got to teach me something. So tell me about the new series, right? Go through, talk about your character, talk about the show. What is it about for those who've never seen any of the trailers? Okay, well, I will say that the show is kind of like a continuation of the original show, Victorious. We're not a reboot. We are a spinoff. So it's kind of focusing on a new group of kids, but also focusing on the teacher or past student, Trina, who comes back and begrudgingly and unknowingly becomes a great teacher to all of these students. And my character is Quest, and he's the cool one who everyone kind of comes and reconvenes with. And he's like the mediator of the group, which is super cool. and he's also like really super talented he's a singer plays several instruments and uh i think the more that we get to know him and the more that i play him the the more like maybe it's eccentrified he will become but as of right now he's really cool really uh collected and honestly just who everyone goes to whenever they have a problem and you know they might get him in trouble sometimes but you know he's always there for his friends and that's cool and i noticed you mentioned music right so you have a connection to music off the screen tell us how you kind of made that connection of what you got in the you know your background and your character yeah well i mean it definitely helped with some of the terminology that's used in the show uh not as much in the first half and the second half which i can't wait for everyone to see but um it made it super easy with you know the the techno like the technology of everything and and just you know being in the studio and recording stuff and you know all of the moving parts it just made everything super cool because i'm a producer in real life so it's it's it's just it was really fun to kind of connect the two worlds that's awesome and you also got to work with some amazing co-stars some talented people uh tell me about maybe one or two of your co-stars that really stood out to you yeah well of course you know you have the amazing you know Daniella Monet she was really cool to work with super funny you know super you know helping with being in a new environment and being in a new genre for me because personally I've never been in a sitcom before and I had never done multicam before so she was super helpful with that as well as you know the directors and all of that stuff but also you know I gotta give a quick shout out to my other co-star Emily Wang she was also super cool too loved her I still talk to her like every day you know so if you're watching me love you but uh yeah yeah that those are the two I would probably say like they they really helped me on set you know feel more secure and and you know just really helped me through that entire process and so tell me about you have Atlanta Roots but then I also read something about the Apollo yeah talk about that one oh yeah that that takes me back to like 2017 maybe 2016-17 I think I was eight or nine and i yeah i flew to apollo after doing a little local theater production here in atlanta and they made me or not made me but they had me audition for apollo up in new york and i was able to perform there like twice and i won and it was really cool it was a really fun experience okay and you're you're not only acting right you're also in school so you gotta tell me about that because that yeah acting is a job and it is yeah it's been it's been really cool and and a little complicated to balance and juggle everything all together. But it overall has been a really cool experience and has definitely taught me a lot about time management because I don't know. I'm going to school for animation because I love to create stories through animation. I love storytelling through animation. It's, I think, in my opinion, a really beautiful thing, whether it be comedy or drama or series or action, whatever it may be, I just love animation and voice acting. So that's what I'm going to school for. And if you know anything about animation or art majors in general, you know that that takes a billion years off of your life. And it just it's a really hard and complicated but beautiful process to go through to learn and and really go to school for. So balancing that with my career and also, you know, my school life and, you know, the business side of everything has been it's been a learning curve. And I'm still getting used to it and I'm still, you know, learning about everything. um but i will say we only have a few seconds left yeah but uh before we wrap up tell us what's the future look like for you well any special projects yeah well you can definitely look forward to an animated series that i'm currently making and as far as any other future projects you're just gonna have to wait and see because i don't think i can really say anything about anything else i'm doing that's a good teaser all right guys if you want to check it out hollywood arts is now streaming on netflix yeah