Sara Waisglass was looking to prove something to herself with her new film, How to Lose a Popularity Contest: that she’s so much more than just her Ginny & Georgia character, Max Baker.
“One of my biggest fears is that I can only play Maxine Baker, because, like, my energy does bleed into my performances,” Waisglass, 27, exclusively told Us Weekly while discussing the film. “And something I was very worried about was, in this movie, is it just going to be Max in a different film?”
Waisglass plays Ellie in Tubi’s How to Lose a Popularity Contest, a high school overachiever who enlists nemesis Nate (Chase Hudson) for a scheme to win back their exes by having him run for student body president. To make matters more confusing, Nate’s nickname for Ellie happens to be “Max” — short for maxi-pad — a moniker spurned from an unfortunate incident in class years earlier. (Waisglass confessed she’s actually been calling Max Baker “maxi-pad” on the G&G set since season 1, adding to the irony.)
To carve Ellie into an entirely different Max than the one she’s played on her hit Netflix show for three seasons, Waisglass said she tried “really hard” to find aspects of the character that felt unique, even down to the minutia.
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“I was very intentional about silly things like posture and tone of voice,” she explained. “So it was the same energy, just a different execution, I guess. And I’m hoping that that played out right.”
Coming off one-note was the last thing Waisglass needed to worry about. While the actress delivers an empathetic, loving, kind and fun teen in Ginny & Georgia’s Max, Ellie reads as uptight, selfish and egotistical. She’s a hard protagonist to root for — at least in the first half of the movie — and even Waisglass had a challenging time with the character when first reading the script.
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“I really didn’t love her when I read the script, I thought she was very spiky and sharp and kind of mean to be honest,” she told Us, adding that having such a visceral reaction to the character actually did her good in the long run. “It almost kind of teaches you something, and you’ve got to dive a little bit deeper and see why you think that character’s mean, and take that in. So I was excited to do that.”
But, of course, Ellie only remains a snake for so long — she “sucks the poison out of people,” Waisglass described of when audiences meet her — and eventually her and Nate form a connection beyond their initial plan. Building that bond with Hudson, 23, was easy, Waisglass confessed, as she’s already a naturally curious person.
“I love people, and I love staring into people’s eyes and studying them and getting to know them. I think that humanity is such a beautiful thing, and the more people I know, the more I grow,” she explained. “So when the cameras aren’t rolling, I’m constantly digging, and I just want to know more about the person I’m with and why they want to perform, and kind of what makes them tick. And I learned so much. Then I [was] just in awe.”
Waisglass noted that while she’s “amazed” she gets to make a career out of acting “at all,” she’s even more floored by the people she works with — Hudson included. The Degrassi alum was deeply impressed with how (humbly) the social media star handled starring in his first feature film.
Chase Hudson and Sara Waisglass Tubi“The thing I admire most about him is his willingness to jump into something that he’s not comfortable in,” Waisglass told Us. “He definitely walked in and was like, ‘I’m scared. This is my first big project like this.’ And he attacked it head on. He trained, he did everything he could possibly do to bring it to life in the best way and he took it seriously. He gave it his all.”
Waisglass pointed out that a lot of internet personalities — Hudson has amassed more than 30 million followers on TikTok alone — would walk on set with an attitude, but Hudson didn’t take one moment for granted. “He was so grateful,” she said. “He was so ready to just work and be there. He just loved everyone, and I really admired that about him.”
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This was may be his first time acting, but Hudson is no stranger to having all eyes on him. That came in handy when Waisglass approached him about dealing with online trolls in the wake of Ginny & Georgia’s success.
“Both of us have dealt with negativity online, so we had a quick discussion about that,” she shared. “And he has the most beautiful perspective on it. He says, ‘Embrace it. Embrace the cringe. People are gonna say whatever they want, but you should be true to you, always.’ And to hear that coming from him, it was just really cool.”
How to Lose a Popularity Contest premieres on Tubi Friday, January 16.
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