KIdnap movie: Get to know its young star Sage Correa

[caption id="attachment_152655" align="alignnone" width="1800"] Contributor: Sage Correa[/caption]rn Sage Correa stars in the new film 'Kidnap' with Halle Berry. rnSage Correa is not your typical ten-year-old boy. He has an IMDB page dedicated to him, acting coaches, and is recognizable in commercials, television, and the new movie, Kidnap with Halle Barry. But Sage is also a kid; he plays sports, goes to school, loves his dog, and likes video games, especially NBA 2K17 and MLB 2K17.rnrn[related-category]rnrnWhen not on the set, you can find Sage playing basketball, tennis and practicing Kung-Fu. He likes to play team sports and feels it gives him the camaraderie to keep moving forward. He is smart as a whip and very personable. He plays chess at a high level and is very good with mathematics. He tells me that he knew division and multiplication before exiting Kindergarten. He is funny and likes to make people laugh. His passion comes in through when talking about acting and basketball. I am also a sports writer and he wowed me with his basketball knowledge.rnrnSage let us into his world and gave us a child actor’s perspective on acting and playing in the movie Kidnap. Without any pretentiousness or grandiosity, he is courteous and polite. Every time I commended him he would say “thank you” in all sincerity. It was my pleasure to interview and get to know Sage Correa.rnrn[nextslide teaser="Getting to Know Sage" slider="true" /]rnrn rnrn[caption id="attachment_152658" align="aligncenter" width="1800"] Contributor: Sage Correa[/caption]rn Sage Correa rn Hidden Remote: What is your favorite subject in school? rnrnI have two. I like Math and I like religion. I’m ahead of math because I practice it every morning and I have been practicing Algebra, decimals, and I was ahead of the whole class. I learned multiplication and division in Kindergarten. Math is very fun so I have no problems with it.rnrn Hidden Remote: What kind of music do you like? rnrn SC: I like Hip-Hop.rnrn Hidden Remote: Who is your favorite singer? rnrn SC: Drake and Kendrick Lamar. From old school, Rakim, LL Cool J, and Public Enemy. I like to listen to Travis Scott sometimes. Hmmm… what else. Snoop Dog, Rihanna, Chance, a little bit of Anderson Pack, and I pretty much like everybody basically.rnrn Hidden Remote: What is your favorite song? rnrn SC: Wild Thoughts , from the number one album by DJ Khaled. Because it has a little bit of rapping, singing, shouting out, major bag alert, and everything.rnrn Hidden Remote: I see you have a dog too. I have a chihuahua named Scout. What kind of dog do you have and what is its name? rnrn SC: I have Cocker Spaniel and her name is Gracie. My agent went to this adoption company called TAPS . She sponsored a dog and posted it on Facebook because she needed a home. My mom and Dad adopted her for me. I always wanted a dog.rnrnMy new dog likes to sleep with me, she licks me awake. I was playing video games and she put her paw on the controller and made the game better. I got a better score, because she put her paw on the controller. She loves to play ball. When we go to the park to play ball we get exercise also.rnrnMy mom throws a ball and we race each other to the ball and back and she always beats me. The thing that annoys me a lot is that dogs can only see black and white. I wish they could see color. Gracie got rescued on my birthday, that is why she is very special to me, because she got saved on my birthday.rnrnShe loves to eat bacon. She steals bacon from me when I am eating breakfast. One time I was eating breakfast and she went up and stole it as I was bringing it up to my mouth. Sometimes I give her a little piece or a crumb, but that’s all I basically do.rnrn[nextslide teaser="Sage and his Hobbies" slider="true" /]rnrn rnrn[caption id="attachment_152655" align="alignnone" width="1800"] Contributor: Sage Correa[/caption]rn Hobbies rn Hidden Remote: I see that you like basketball, do you have a favorite player and what are your favorite teams? rnrn SC: My favorite basketball player is Russell Westbrook. I really like him because He is a good slasher and passes the ball. I have two favorite teams, Lakers and Clippers. The Lakers because they are going to be very good in the next couple of seasons and are already good and the best team of all-time. The Clippers because I go to a lot of games and I could meet the players one day. I have a better chance of meeting them than any other players than on teams. I would like to show Clipper Darrell a Clipper show.rnrn Hidden Remote: You also play chess, tennis, and Kung Fu. What do you like about chess? rnrn SC: I like the tournaments. I haven’t done this in a long time but I like being in chess tournaments. The last one I was in I took second place against other kids my age who are really good at chess. I also beat one of the best kids in the league in a tournament. I really like the competition. Competition is really good.rnrn Hidden Remote: Do you like the one-on-one or team competitions better? rnrn SC: I like team competitions because there is always someone on my back if I fail, someone is always on my back to fix it. In basketball, if I get double-teamed I can pass the ball to someone else. Going one-on-one is very tiring, especially with tennis and Kung-Fu. In Kung-Fu you don’t have a team, I mean, I think you could, but it’s more reasonable to go one-on-one. Tennis is harder one-on-one because with two-on-two, you have one on each side. In Kung-Fu one-on-one is basically easier.rnrn[nextslide teaser="Acting" slider="true" /]rnrn rnrnhttps://vimeo.com/107105111rn Working the Job rn Hidden Remote: How old were you when you first started acting? rnrn SC: About four or five. I did a PSA for Fresh Society. You cannot hear me but it looks like I am rapping. I was in the party scene. The director said, “You’re not supposed to be in this scene, do you want to be in it?” and I was like “Ya, let’s get our party on!”rnrn Hidden Remote: When did you want to become an actor? rnrn SC: At school we did this concert, and the funny thing is, this has nothing do with acting, it was a singing concert, and I really like being on stage in the theater. There was 300 people in our school watching, and that was pretty cool. I’d rather be acting and that’s a better talent for me and also people can see me at the same time.rnrnI did this skit on Jimmy Kimmel. I was on it a few times, but this one I was the main character in the skit. I was the comedian in it. It was about the first Black Friday. They are eating their Thanksgiving feast and I come in as Jedediah. I tell them in the morning at the crack of dawn there is a sale and threw paper and everything.rnrnIn the morning, they start fighting to get all the stuff (at the trading outpost). I go backstage and they put makeup on me. One kid says “What shall we call this wonderful holiday?” I come back and say “We should call it Black Friday, cause its Friday, and you guys gave me two black eyes!” After that we did a song. (In the We Wish You a Merry Christmas theme) “We wish you good Black Friday, we wish you good Black Friday, we wish you good Black Friday, and a great Cyber Monday too.”rnrnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNIjhtZQi3grnrn Hidden Remote: How do you feel about voice over and playing Pig Pen in the Peanuts show? rnrn SC: It’s actually tougher than television. It’s very tough because I had to talk while the mouth was moving on the screen. We have to talk at the same pace. It was in Japanese writing and we had to translate it. I liked playing Pig Pen because it was the first time I got to do voice over. It was really tough, but it made a tick and when it made a cross that’s when you started the line. That helps, but there was nothing that helped for the mouth movement. Peanuts was really tough because you had to talk like Pig Pen actually talked, back in the day.rnrnIf I had to do a voice over I would rather do a new thing (movie/television show) that they just made up. If I wanted to do voice over I would rather do one that was not created from back in the day. If I had my choice for anything it would be for an animated Spider-Man. He is unique and I like his unique voice.rnrn Hidden Remote: Did you see the Spider-Man movie yet and did you like it? rnrn SC: Yes. I was not a big fan of it.rnrn Hidden Remote: If you can be in any movie what would it be? rnrn SC: Probably Homecoming, but I would make it way better.rnrn Hidden Remote: What would you do to make it better? rnrn SC: I would do a lot more comedy. Just come out of nowhere. Just like Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are having a big moment. He pops out of nowhere and says “Where is the potato chips” or something like that. No, “where are the mash potatoes?” then he goes “I got you yams yesterday, eat those yams!” I can’t wait to I see Daddy’s Home 3.rnrn[nextslide teaser="Set Teacher" slider="true" /]rnrn rnrnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6lLUiKqMM&amp;t=2srn Learning on Set rn Hidden Remote: When you are in a movie or television show, how do you go to school? rnrn SC: I have a set teacher. For Kidnap, my teacher came to the trailer and we did class work in the trailer and we did it in a hotel. For a commercial, we did it on set.rnrn Hidden Remote: How do your acting coaches help you? rnrn SC: My first acting coach was Dustin, and we did a lot of tongue-twisters. We did short skits, but all my other ones, we work on lines all-day. I just started going to a new class and what we did there was a lot of games, working on improv, and we had to do lines as if we were doing a commercial. I went to James Marshall and we also played games, in the beginning we made a circle, and just played music and mostly what we did was practice our lines. Everybody has to work on them. It helps the person for the audition.rnrn Hidden Remote: Do you like to go see your coaches and is it hard work? rnrn SC: It matters how hard you work. The new ones, that coach is fun and the class is fun, in James Marshall I really like his class even though it’s all day, it’s really, really fun. Basically, all the other ones are hard work. It’s just straight lines, no games or anything.rnrn[nextslide teaser="KIdnap" slider="true" /]rnrn rnrnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Ht8VRPRvUrn The Movie rn Hidden Remote: What can you tell me about the role in the movie? rnrn SC: I play a kid named Frankie and not Marco or Polo. He is a very scared little boy who is six-years old. He has curly hair with glasses and he gets kidnapped. He’s so scared and he is in a big car. Phew!rnrn Hidden Remote: Was it hard to be in a scary movie, did you get scared being in the movie? rnrn SC: I don’t get scared when I am in the movie, but it’s hard to act scared. Then, I didn’t have any in scary moments in my life. So now I have had scary moments a little bit. Back then I couldn’t relate, so I didn’t know what it was like to be really scared.rnrn Hidden Remote: How did you act really scared? rnrn SC: Well, I thought of nothing. So, number one, think about nothing. Number two, think about your hand getting cut off by a knife or something, and number three feel like you are in the moment. That was actually the hardest one because there are cameras all-around. But it’s good practice for a reality show, if I ever get kidnapped on a reality show, because there are camera’s everywhere.rnrn Hidden Remote: What was the hardest part about doing the movie? rnrn SC: The hardest… was to act scared. Also, one day, we had to do a scene, and we were in the basement and I was sick that day, I had the flu. That was pretty hard to do all of that. Then I had to leave early back to my trailer and the doctor came in and everything. Then everybody got sick it was crazy. That was the second to last day. The last day everybody was okay. It was a relief because it was the water scene we filmed. The water was freezing it was cold, like 30 degrees, but it wasn’t snowing, but it was crazy cold.rnrn Hidden Remote: What was it like to work with Halle Barry? rnrn SC: She is really, really nice. She brought me over to her hotel to talk about stuff, it was a get-to-know-you session.rn The Future rn Hidden Remote: Do you plan to keep on acting when you grow up? rnrn SC: I want to act and do many other things. I want to own a basketball team, I want to work at Chipotle, and I want to be an Olympian. I am a really fast runner. I am an extremely fast runner one of the fastest kids in my class.rnrn Hidden Remote: Because you are so fast, do you want to play football? rnrn SC: I don’t want to play football, I like football, and I am really good at football. I am really good at wide receiver and I can run by everyone, but, I don’t want to play it because I don’t want to get injured. Because they have the worst injuries.rnrn Hidden Remote: What other jobs would you like to do? rnrn SC: I would be a doctor or a lawyer or business man.rnrn Hidden Remote: Would you like to direct? rnrn SC: Direct? Yes. I would like to be a director and a producer. I would be a movie producer, a TV producer, and a music producer.rnrn Kidnap is directed by Luis Prieto and written by Knat Lee and is in theaters.

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Interview: Get to know ‘Kidnap’ star Sage Correa

Sage Correa stars in the new film ‘Kidnap’ with Halle Berry.

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