These are the kids I grew up watching and was a fan of.Įveryone else got to do two or three scenes of a screen test. I'm seeing Bow Wow I'm seeing Romeo Miller I'm seeing Taj Mowry. So immediately, I'm in my own head: I'm seeing all the names that I recognize. I'm looking at this list for Zero, and it's the longest list. So there was Zero, there was Zigzag, there was Armpit, and then they had the actors who were coming in underneath the names. The screen test stands out because I walked into this studio, and it had all the characters’ names up. What did the Holes audition process look like? “That allowed me to hire a choreographer, hire the dancers, book the stage, book the lighting, book the crew, everything.” The resulting video was impressive and over the top, to say the least.īelow, Thomas opens up about his Holes audition, that catchy “Dig It” rap, and the time Bow Wow took him on a sold-out, 32-city music tour. “That entire budget was filled within a week and a half,” he tells Bustle. Take this past Halloween, when his Twitch community raised the money he needed to film a reenactment of the “Eye to Eye” dance routine from 1995’s A Goofy Movie. With a million followers across TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and Twitch, Thomas does interact with his Holes stans, but his community is also interested in what’s next.
In the last year, Holes has unleashed a viral TikTok sound - “I’m tired of this, grandpa / well that’s just too damn bad!” - and trended on Twitter for its unforgettable one-liners, though Thomas has built an audience of his own thanks to his quiet charisma and his ongoing work as an actor in Shameless, Roll Bounce, and Dirty. I love that I can embrace the fact that the name Zero will be tied to my name for the rest of my life.” You’ve got Daniel Radcliffe who, no matter what, is Harry Potter. “You’ve got someone like Harrison Ford who, no matter what, is Indiana Jones or Han Solo.
“As an actor, I think a lot of people wish to have one role on their resume that can forever resonate with,” Thomas tells Bustle of the 2003 film’s enduring popularity. People like 32-year-old actor Khleo Thomas, who young audiences fell for as Zero in the beloved Disney film Holes, adapted from Louis Sachar’s bestselling 1998 novel. While this may present some challenging memories for anyone who experienced these trends first time around - “there’s some cherry picking going on,” comedian Carly Aquilino said in a viral TikTok about the era’s unusual sartorial combinations - the nostalgia can be a welcome development for the faces who defined the era. Gen Z is styling itself in crocs and trucker hats, and then capturing the evidence on disposable cameras. Reboots of ’90s and ’00s classics like Sex and the City and Gossip Girl are dominating streaming lists. I think we may have reached peak nostalgia.
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