Raphael Alejandro, star of Netflix’s new movie Incominggave some insight into that disgusting Tesla scene as well as the prospects for a sequel.
The film follows Mason Thames’ Benji and his group of friends as they transition into high school freshmen. The core of the story revolves around Benji’s love and the tricks of a crazy party organized by Kooshi’s (Bardia Seiri) brother.
Alejandro, who plays Connor, doesn’t actually get to attend the party. Instead, he gets stuck driving around the Tesla with one nasty surprise.
Raphael Alejandro breaks down Incoming’s outrageous Tesla scene
In an exclusive interview with The Direct’s Russ Milheim, Incoming star Raphael Alejandro (who plays Connor) opened the film with a disgusting Tesla scene.
When his other two friends get to the big party, Connor gets stuck in a Tesla with Ramon Reed’s Eddie. They end up having to fill in for a spontaneous Uber driver in drunk high school student Loren Gray’s Katrina.
Things don’t go as planned, as a drunk Katrina, who was also fed by piling up Taco Bell, ends up pooping herself and Connor’s borrowed Tesla.
Alejandro revealed that the fake poop was made “a mixture of peanut butter and oils:”
“It was a mixture of peanut butters and oils and stuff. It was — I don’t like peanut butter. I really don’t. I don’t like peanut butter, which is an unpopular opinion. Reeses are in the middle. I wasn’t really really excited because it resembled anything, so of course that helps acting in that car sometimes we didn’t even have to act at all.”
“I had never done an R-rated movie in general,” the actor remarked, adding how they too “had to work with an intimacy coordinator” for all of Gray’s Katrina poo scenes:
“I’d never done an R-rated movie in general like this. But I’d also never done anything where… We had to do the scene where Loren (Gray) was cleaned up after everything. And that scene, actually, we had to work with the proximity coordinator with. So it wasn’t the hardest scene, but it was definitely something surprising because I had never done anything like that to be in close contact with Loren.”
“(Loren Gray) was awesome,” Alejandro repeated, noting that he “reminisced, loved how the scene came together:”
“And (Loren Gray) was great. Later, Ramon and I were very respectful, and he goes and says, ‘Thank you guys for being gentlemen,’ and all that stuff. So it was a really wholesome and nice moment, but it was definitely something , which I had never tackled before, but overall it was a great experience and I really liked how the scene turned out.
But there could be a possible sequel Incoming do you ever play cards Alejandro agreed “that would be cool” while adding how he “Can’t really talk too much about a potential sequel:”
“I mean, that would be cool. I can’t really talk too much about a possible sequel. Stay tuned, guys. I’ve heard a lot of support for maybe another movie, which is, you know, really happy as an actor.”
The actor theorized that in a hypothetical sequel, Connor would “be a little potentially tamer:”
“For Connor, that would be cool — a freshman in college. I mean… I think he learned that when he pushes himself toward this edge and feels like he has to be, everyone else is having fun, so he needs I think he learned a lesson , that if he wants to have fun, if he wants to freak out and all that, he can, but he doesn’t have to because he feels like everyone else is doing it. , so I have to do it… So maybe in another one, he is possibly a little tamer, but I think just as angry.”
As for Connor as a character, the actor explained that one of the key factors in figuring out who he was was solving. “why is he so angry:”
“I think the North Star is obviously the foundation of his character and everything, and he finds out why he’s so angry. And it’s not; I don’t think it’s just because he’s also short and all that, it’s more that he’s just afraid that because he’s short, or because, you know, what’s stopping him, even if he’s not short, he’ll always seem to be angry, that he’s always angry, that someone’s going to push him, say that he’s not allowed, say , that he is part of the crowd, part of the popular crowd.”
He went on to explain the character’s situation “confrontational” side was there to help “save yourself the hurt of it:”
“I think that was the basis of his character. It was to find out why he was always angry all the time. Because anger is a secondary emotion from a psychological point of view. First of all, there is another emotion. And I think it’s He feels that he’s not allowed to be invited to the party. So he is always angry and confrontational with someone so that he can save himself from being hurt by his actions.”
“He’s not always angry” Alejandro clarified the matter and specifically pointed to a different scene in his Tesla adventure:
“Because he’s not always angry… Sometimes when I’m in the Tesla, like when the cops don’t stop us in the Tesla, he smiles and he’s actually happy and he’s all that. Actually, he’s not that. angry because he thinks he doesn’t take her seriously. He wants to be adventurous as a character.”
Raphael Alejandro’s personal school experience is a little different from the traditional one, though.
“I’ve been acting since I was four years old” the actor shared, and there was a lot of it “online:”
“It’s kind of hard to say if it’s very close because I’ve been acting since I was four. So most of my school life has been online and not like the traditional idea of what normal people go through. But I’ve been to a lot of parties and parties and even though they’re not haven’t been as wild as ‘Incoming’, they’ve been just as fun, so I included that.
In the film, Connor has a close group of friends: Mason Thames’ Benj, Ramon Reed’s Eddie, and Bardia Seir’s Koosh.
Alejandro shared it as actors and people “clicked right away” what he can’t say about every description he’s experienced:
“… We clicked right away, and then we saw each other in high school. And then it really clicked, the whole friendship and the whole chemistry. And that was really rare. Honestly, I’ve been in a lot of other projects where it takes a little bit of adjustment time before you get that chemistry and everything, but it was pretty immediate with this actor… When we were on set, you could immediately feel the chemistry in the air.
Speaking from his experience Incoming helped him grow as a performer, the actor explained how he realized that “letting go and just being there was the best:”
“I’d never done an R-rated comedy before where you just go in there and I’m just cursing or whatever… I think it helped me overall as an actor, you know, you know, letting go and just being there was the best thing, but especially in this comedy, the directors Dave and John Chernin made it a really safe environment (that)… So I think it just helped me realize how collaborative the filmmaking process really is and how free you can be as an actor, especially in a comedy.”
Rafael Alejandro was also excited to talk about his other project, which is Dreamworks’ Wild Robot:
“If you’re looking for something else I’m going to be in, I don’t know if you’ve heard of Dreamworks’ ‘Wild Robot.’ I’m going to be a character named Peck in that movie, and you might not even recognize me if you’re going to watch it because I have a different voice than mine, so stick around hearing.
He continued to run away from his sensations Wild Robot is a “very important message” and “a story to tell:”
“I worked with producer Jeff (Hermann) on Boss Baby 2. He invited me to do Wild Robot. When he told me about the project, the messages and everything, I thought it was a really important message and a really important story to tell. So I’m glad, that I can be a part of such a beautiful story.”
Incoming streaming now on Netflix.