St. James kids chat with Buddy Handleson
Kidsday reporters Dianna Johnson, Will Park, Brooke Moses, and Christina Simmons from St. James Elementary School in St. James, interviewed Buddy Handleson from the Nickelodeon show "Wendell & Vinnie." (Feb. 25, 2013) Credit: Newsday
We met with Buddy Handleson, who stars as Wendell on the hit Nickelodeon show "Wendell & Vinnie," when he was visiting the Nickelodeon offices in Manhattan recently.
Probably almost 100 people, because there's all the crew, the camera people and the sound [engineers] and then we also have the audience, who we need for the laughs. Right? Then we have producers and everyone. So probably over 100.
It's very fun. He's really nice and he teaches me how to be louder. He teaches me different ways to say lines. It's really nice to work with him.
It feels great because I've been doing acting for, like, five years now. and so I finally have my own show. It's pretty awesome.
I don't know if I consider myself famous, exactly, but just a lot of auditions and hard work, really.
Well, Michael J. Fox, but he stars in "Back to the Future," and that's my favorite movie.
The best thing is getting to do stuff like this and being able to live my dream. I think the worst, it's a difficult one, because there aren't much bad things about it. Maybe having to get up very early.
I got, like, three pieces of fan mail one time. Those were real fun to read and then I responded to them with a head shot that I had signed and everything.
Yes, it is. But we have an awesome studio teacher on set. So it makes it a lot easier.
The average would probably be, like, four, but sometimes we'll do it up to, like, eight times.
It's a baseball episode. That one was really funny to just rehearse, and then filming was hilarious. The audience laughed a lot. So I hope everyone enjoys that episode.
"Hannah Montana" was my first role I ever did,. That showed me how everything worked, and then "Shake It Up" was just a lot of experience, and kind of, like, polished some of my acting techniques.
I do, yeah. I like being recognized, but, like, if I'm eating a dinner or something with my family, then it's, like, "Oh hang on one second, I'm going to finish eating and then I'll take a picture with you." But it's really nice to be recognized, it feels cool and stuff.
You're going to see a lot of quirky antics from Wendell and Vinnie. Both of them just kind of working together to become used to each other, being complete opposites. I think just every episode would be something to look forward to because they're all really funny.
I am like him because I do like to learn. I do like school, but I don't like it as much as him. I don't like doing math or anything. But I like to read a lot, and he doesn't like video games, but I do.
I think Jim Parsons, who's from "The Big Bang Theory." But I actually would like Michael J. Fox to be on it. He would be really cool on it.
I think maybe a lawyer.
No, none of them are but I think my dad wanted to be a rock star at one time. Who doesn't?
I'm from the San Francisco area in California.
