This director there, Jenny Peterman, she's like this genius - a super talented, local gem. I've always kind of hated musicals and plays, but I made myself do it and it turned out to change the whole coarse of everything. I think I was maybe 19, there's this local theatre called UPT that my cousin forced me to audition for. Afterwards, I worked with my uncle for a little bit - he’s a big theater guy.ĭid you ever take any improv classes or anything like that?
I moved in with him, and I was trying to pursue dancing. After high school, I was kinda back and forth, and I was living with one of my buddies, Ryan Johnson, who's a dancer. After a while, they would start letting me choreograph my own dances for the shows that they would put on. I would go there and take like a hip-hop dance class, and became really close with the people who run it. I started taking classes at this local place it's called SPACE (School of Performing Arts and Cultural Education), it's not an actual school you go to it's more of a place that's good for breaking you out of your shell and learning choreography. That was kind of my first passion really. I just have always loved dancing when I was a kid I was always dancing. I feel like people that watch your videos think you’re joking when you’re dancing but then realize how good you are. I just made myself be consistent, because I had tried so many times and not stuck to it. But I wanted to do the comedy stuff so badly, I would just force myself to do it even though it made me super uncomfortable. At that point, I was just making dance Vines because I was actually way too shy, it made me really uncomfortable to film myself being funny. I was in L.A., and I was trying to pursue dance, like industry. I kept making videos on and off, the consistency thing was something I could never really stick to.Īnd then Vine started. Then we started to get a tiny bit of traction on there I remember, like way back. We had a little duo of making videos and editing and just gradually got better at it. My cousin Max and I - he was kind of like my camera man I guess, but he would be in them too sometimes. When did you become aware of the online platforms for video that were emerging?Īround 15 or 16, watching all the old YouTube stuff when all of that started off I wanted to do it so badly. A lot of them were action movies we were creating with dialogue, but most of the time we would make it up as we went. He was extremely meticulous - it was funny. He started directing and editing, so I assume I got into it because of him.
Also my big brother - he's super into film and all of that stuff so i'm sure he got me into it, he was always making home videos and movies. I think I've always been into it, starting from when I was really young. It’s understood that a majority of comedians are not how they seem when they perform in “real life,” but is it different for social media celebrities? As he picked up and we started talking, he seemed humble and reserved - a bit shy even. This was when his career truly took off, turning him into a viral meme, gaining him 2.2 million followers, ending up with him starring in various music videos and now partnering with major corporations.īefore speaking to him over the phone from his hometown, I had no idea what to expect. The Vine is essentially making fun of fuckboys and how he sees girls acting around them.
In one of his most notable early Vines “ bad boi’s” from 2016, Frey plays two characters: a “bad boy” and the girl he’s talking to. When Vine was introduced, Frey began posting his videos for the public to see. His brother would direct small skits they would record and edit them together and then show it to friends and family. As a kid growing up in Northern California’s Mendocino County, Frey and his brother made home videos together - a process similar to the one he uses today.
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