"Final Destination" Couples Tell All!

You've probably lived this. You and your date go out with another couple and head for some fun attraction like an amusement park or a race. It's exciting and an adrenalin rush. But, what if something went terribly wrong? What if the roller coaster went off the tracks or the race cars jumped the protective fence? These are the kinds of questions that power the domino-effect Final Destination films to big box office. Now, you can see the latest installment in 3-D!

We sat down with two "couples" from the film to find out their scariest moments while filming, what they would do if death were stalking them, what it was like working in 3-D, doing some crazy stunts and actually having fun midst the crazy kills and gore. Good times!

For our Beverly Hills interview, the dark-haired actresses were looking very Hollywood glam and the guys were very crisply stylish. Picture cute Bobby Campo in slacks and blue dress shirt with white collar and his girl in the film Shantel VanSanten in a beige lace dress topped with cropped black leather jacket. Hot Nick Zano wore black pants and a dark dress jacket over a dark gray tee. His counterpart Haley Webb matched his look in a dark silver dress. Let's talk horror and what's next for these hot young actors....

TeenHollywood: Did you know this franchise before you signed on?

Haley: Yeah, but sometimes I can't do gore for gore's sake, but I do really enjoy this idea. I think it's really creative, I love the fact that (death) happens in order, because there's always the question, 'Can you beat death?' Well, what does that mean? Like, let's get to the bottom of it. I think the story carries the franchise, so I was definitely a fan before I had seen the movies, because I just enjoyed the idea of it.

Shantel: I had to see them. I hadn't seen them previously. Then, when I got there, (Producer) Craig Perry, who has been part of the franchise from the beginning, was like 'You have to see the other ones just to understand what the audience expects and what the whole franchise is about' so I watched them and I grew to understand what the nature of the beast was, the formula for all of it and it was really good to do because we wanted to make this the best one. Even though there are better stunts and more killings or whatever it might be, you still want to elevate the performance in every one that you see.

TeenHollywood: Are you a horror film fan at all?

Shantel: I don't like horror films at all. I can't. It's so hard for me. Even when I saw it last night for the first time, there were still parts of it where I had to look down. Like the pedicure scene, I can't do it. I get pedicures all the time.

Bobby: They're shoving a shovel into that toe. I saw the first one ten years ago as a little pup and they're great concepts because you take something that everybody does and make your worse fear come true. You're just flying on so many emotions and there are so many places you can go with it and now you're doing it in 3-D, you're living it. You're in it with us. It's kinda weird.

TeenHollywood: Do you start noticing things in normal life that might kill you since doing this film? Like, that pencil there is going to hit me in the eye?

Bobby: That pencil has killed four people today.

Nick: The plane ride to New Orleans, the cast, we all flew over together, and as soon as we got on the plane, I'm like, 'You've got to be kidding me. All of you are on this plane? Come on, man!' This is the most poorly planned - a movie about death, spawned from a first movie [that's] based on a plane crash.

Haley: It does make you more aware, which isn't necessarily the best thing but the fact of the matter is, there are a number of things that could go wrong right now but I can't go around thinking, 'What if this? And what if this, and what if this,' I would drive myself, and everyone around me, insane. So I think it definitely makes you more aware, but not really paranoid if that makes sense.

Shantel: But, like on set, especially when you're shooting and thinking about death every day, there's always mousetraps and other things and you'd be 'okay, if the back of the truck fell and hit that, then that would shoot up to the power line and I'd be electrocuted and die.

Bobby: You can't help it. You worry about doing it literally 24/7 on set so I had to take it off set and just stop.

TeenHollywood: Nick, when you read the script and you saw that your character's buns get stuck in a swimming pool that's draining, did you go, 'I can't wait to do this movie?'

Nick: (laughing) That was one of those things where (director) David Ellis was like, 'It's gonna look cool.' And I'm just like, 'Right,' and he's like, 'Don't over think it, it's gonna look cool.' And I'm like, 'Alright, dude. I'm with you. Submerge me.'

TeenHollywood: Were you good at holding your breath?

Nick: I'm not bad, but I can do it over a minute easy. But if I flail, we're looking at 17 seconds. That's legitimate, where you're like thrashing and then you need air.

TeenHollywood: And, Haley, being stuck in the car wash, was that frightening?

Haley: Oh yeah, definitely. And the thing is too, Nick was literally under the water for so long and I was really in this car that was filling up with water like to my chest at a really rapid pace, and the same thing, you exert so much energy that you don't expect to be out of energy in four seconds. It was about three days filming and it was very, very scary.

Nick: It's an interesting day of work when you're passing each other in the lobby, like, 'What are you doing?' 'Oh, I die tomorrow.' 'Oh, you're dying tomorrow, I'm going to come watch you. I'll come by and watch.' Everyone comes around for deaths, and [are like], 'That was really good, it looked great.'

TeenHollywood: Sick but fun. Did any of the cast know each other before? Did you bond in New Orleans, did you get to do anything?

Haley: No, none of us really knew each other. I knew Nick in the call back I had for the movie, because they did a chemistry test to see how the characters worked off of each other, and Nick was one of the picks for (the character of) Hunt. And I just remember just being like, 'Please let this guy get this job,' because they told me I got it and I was like, 'Cool. Who got Hunt?'

TeenHollywood: But you've both seen it? What do you think when you see your deaths?

Nick: I'm glad it came across, because a lot of work was put into it. There's a lot of danger, there's a good payoff. When we did the pool, I was a lifeguard for a long time, so if you're down there ignorance is bliss, but I knew all the variables that would get me killed, and I'm sitting there like, 'don't acknowledge them, just push them down, just do this. There was such a group of stunt guys that were like so brass men that you didn't want to look like a total wimp. They would totally make fun of you and tell you how they got stabbed in the bear suit and they are just fine, and I'm like, 'Wow, sorry that I complained about being tied down underwater. And I'm sorry you were stabbed while wearing a bear suit.'

TeenHollywood: Funny. Did the fact that the director was a stuntman bring a different kind of vibe to the set?

Haley: Definitely, definitely. Oh yeah, because he'd worked with Brand X the stunt team for such a long time and David had such a great career as a stuntman that there were a lot of jokes, it was very fun, a lot of punching, there was a lot of punching.

Nick: There were so many stunt people. We didn't even know some of the stuntmen were stuntmen. I think the funniest is the day where the crowd disperses in the opening, everybody's running, we didn't know who were stunt people, who were extras, so we'd run and wait off camera, and we'd look back and it was chaos, and all of a sudden you'd see a woman crack her head, you go, 'Oh my God, that woman just cracked her head,' and she gets up and everybody's like, 'yeah!' (gives high fives). What the hell happened?

TeenHollywood: If you guys knew you were on some sort of death list would you just party or would you try to do everything you could to stop it or what?

Nick: I would have to go the sentimental route. I wish I liked partying that much but I don't, but I'd have to spend it with my family and my friends, people I love, I got to get that last minute of face time with them before it goes.

Haley: Yeah, definitely. I agree, way to steal my answer. It's sort of a tough thing to imagine, you can imagine it, but then when it's really in your face you want to say, 'Oh yeah, I'll be totally fine, whatever, it's my time.' But then you're faced with it and you're just like, 'Oh great, wow.' And the first instinct is to be around people that you love.

TeenHollywood: I think you've all seen the film by now so, Shantel, were you able to watch even though you don't like horror films?

Shantel: No. Even scenes that I'm in. The escalator scene is really hard for me. When we did ADR, (extra voice recording) I vomited. The first time I saw it with sound effects and everything.

Bobby: Bad fish (we laugh).

Shantel: I wish it was that. It was really hard for me to see it. I made it through watching most of it last night without looking over at somebody and looking back but it's different than the horror movies I grew up on which were people running around killing each other and there's a person in a mask and there are zombies. This one is something where you wonder 'is this something that really happens?' It plays with your brain in that way.

Bobby: It's almost easier to watch the zombie movies because it's like it's fantasy. This one is so real.

Shantel: It's not a typical horror movie. It's not zombie. It's not being chased after with a mask and a knife. It's death. It's something that's intangible. You can't figure it out. There's no rules, nothing.

Bobby: There's slasher moments but it's not a guy in a mask. It's something that could be in the corner of the room. It could be anywhere so you don't really know what to expect and that creates quite a level of uncertainly because it's not just one person that I need to avoid, it's almost everything I need to avoid so that pencil you were talking about actually can kill you in a way.

TeenHollywood: Your kills are more creative.

Bobby: Yeah, the appeal to it is these things are everyday situations. After the second movie, driving behind an 18-wheeler, I couldn't really do it and then a tire fell off right after that and almost hit my car so it's real. Those moments happen and that's the thing that's great about it. It takes something that can really happen to you so that's the fear that we're playing on, that's the fear that we're evoking and it's more exciting. It's not something that's a fantasy like a stalking killer with a knife. This could happen to anybody at any moment.

TeenHollywood: With the arrival of TV shows like "1000 Ways to Die" do the filmmakers have to up the ante on each movie?

Shantel: Yeah. Besides the fact that's it's the fourth one in the franchise and it is going to be the last one, you do, you have to make sure that the deaths are better and bigger than anything else and exceed everyone's expectations because these are the kind of movies where you go home and start thinking 'Oh, that would be awesome if they killed somebody in that way or if they would do a death like that'...

Bobby: Don't go home with her (laughter).

Shantel: (ignoring him and continuing) There's so many possibilities. I've talked to Craig (Perry, the producer) before and said 'how do you come up with some really sick stuff like this?' I guess he does tons of research and finds these sick, gory ways that people truly have died. They probably give them a little bit more entertainment value but he does, he finds things that have actually happened to people. So, it does, it plays on normal fears that we all have and death being the culprit for it all.

TeenHollywood: What about shooting in 3-D? Don't you have to hit your mark just right?

Bobby: This stuff is a bit forgiving. These cameras were so bad-a**. We've never used anything like this before. James Cameron spent how many decades developing these things for Avatar so we got to be that guinea pig in a way. So, for us, the big difference was blocking. There wasn't a lot of it but you do have to be precise on anything, especially digital but, this one, we had to create slightly unnatural blocking arrangements because it would be almost more theatrical. You had to create a three-shot. You wouldn't just want to shoot with two people. You want to create a depth of field.

Shantel: It's how you see a normal room. And, as the audience member and for us even though we're in the movie, you're a participant in it. You're a person on the couch sitting next to the person on screen or you're in the front of the room by the door and you're looking into the room but you're always a participant in all of it.

TeenHollywood: Bobby, they don't explain why you have these visions of future deaths. Did you have to make up your own reason?

Bobby: They don't explain. I really played into the fact that I don't know why this is happening. He doesn't know and I wasn't going to try to come up with my own reasoning. It wasn't 'I don't know why this is happening' but 'how am I going to get through this? How can I win? How can we piece these different things together that we do know and make this understandable to us?' That was the way that I went about it. 'I don't know what's happening but I'm not gonna lose'.

TeenHollywood: We're talked about Haley's car wash scene and Nick in the pool. Which was your favorite scene to do Bobby?

Bobby: There's so many favorites of mine. The racetrack was fun to do because I did it in a way, I was so in my own head, it was two different scenes. I got to experience all this stuff and then they were experiencing something different. But the escalator was a blast to film with her. She was so tense.

TeenHollywood: I got my shoelace stuck in an escalator going up once. It was awful.

Shantel: People think of that all the time. I guess there was a little girl in India that it really did happen to and, when Craig told me that, I was like 'wow, that really brings that into perspective'. It does. That, for me, was the most intense scene. There was one day when we were shooting it and I kind of like lost it. You're in these scenes where you think 'How would I feel? What would I do? What would I think?' Then, you get on that escalator in the middle of a mall. You're three stories high. He's (Bobby) holding my hand and as safe as I feel, there's still a part of you that is this raw adrenalin and you're like 'what was the last thing I said to my mom?' Or, 'my God, what if my dad never sees me get married?' There's these crazy thoughts that I never envisioned would come to my mind. You have your own mortality to check.

TeenHollywood: The escalator one was the scariest for you Shantel but what was the scariest for you, Bobby?

Bobby: We were doing the racetrack, and when I was watching, it didn't really look as drastic as when I did it but I fell down four or five different bleachers and I was really doing that. You can't really see it on film. You can't really tell. But we were down and it got kind of nuts. I landed on top of Andy. He was playing the gear head and that's what we were supposed to be doing but it was intense when I was doing it. I thought I'd tweak an ankle or something.

TeenHollywood: There are a lot of safety issues on this set, gasoline, the nail gun, fires...

Shantel: Fires. They always had like sexy firemen (laughter).

Bobby: That was in her trailer.

Shantel: That's my world. (everybody laughs)

TeenHollywood: Uh, back to the safety issue. Were you in a harness or.....?

Shantel: I have pictures of me lifting up my shirt because I would have like these crazy devices that had pads on them and safety was always first. Injuries are gonna happen. I had severe bruising. My legs swelled because of the escalator stuff. Doing your own stunts, you feel like a bad-a** and it's amazing but, at the end of the day, there were always safety meetings and there were always precautions but it's a little scary doing some of the stunts.

Bobby: Yeah but you have David Ellis who's been doing it (stunt work) for thirty years. They know what they're doing. They are also creating an environment that is like 90 percent practically filmed so there is going to be safety issues within that but these guys also check, double-check, triple-check everything. Casey O'Neil, was my stunt guy, he was doing it, checking it beforehand, making sure the rig was safe and whatever I was gonna do was okay.

TeenHollywood: What about having fun on set? You have to break the tension sometime. Who was the jokester on set? Was it David the director?

Shantel: Yeah. He was the jokester, prankster. He was always doing something goofy. There was a scene in the carwash and they put insoles into my shoes and had to elastic them over my feet to make sure they stayed on when I was running through. I actually slipped and fell and they used that tape on accident but he put soap on the bottom of my insoles so that when we were in there and all this water was rushing at us, I was making suds and bubbles coming out of my shoes. You'd be like crying and look down and be like 'what in the world is coming out of my shoe?' He was always doing something like that to lighten the mood on set.

Bobby: On the first day, we get off the plane, me, Nick and Haley. She (Shantel) was still flying in later, but for me it was kind of nerve-wracking because I'd never been on this big of a set before and I was a little intimidated by this. So, I go in to meet the director and he says like 'hey, guys. Look at how many red vines I can stuff in my mouth!' He's got a wall of five hour energy shots that's as high as this cabinet, like a six foot high wall. So, I'm like 'yeah, this is gonna be a bit more fun than I thought.

TeenHollywood: Funny guy. Is this a good date movie?

Shantel: Yeah!

Bobby: Absolutely.

Shantel: Bring the girl in closer.

Bobby: It's so interactive. It's so much fun. It's like a thrill ride going to a roller coaster. It's the same kind of an amusement park feeling so it's a great date movie.

Shantel: You get a huge adrenalin rush and then you leave. I know, for me, I'm in the movie and I couldn't stop talking about the way that it all was and 'oh, my God, but what about that part? Or 'what about this part?' It's more an interactive movie with your emotions and your senses.

TeenHollywood: What's coming up next for all of you?

Shantel: I just started. I'm going to be a new series regular on "One Tree Hill". I've been filming in North Carolina. It comes out I think September 14th. I play Quinn who is Haley's sister.

Bobby: I almost was on that in the part opposite her. It would have been wild. I was too young for it. But I just got done doing "Law and Order SVU" which was such an awesome set to be on. They have so much time and experience has been put into that. I think eleven years. That and then I've got some meetings coming up with Screen Gems so I'm seeing where it goes next.

TeenHollywood: Nick, are you doing more TV?

Nick: I just got on 'Cougar Town'. I play Courteney Cox's boyfriend, which has been fun. It's awesome, the guy who created 'Scrubs' is the creator of the show, Courteney is a lovely lady, super motivated for the level of success that she's had, she's insanely motivated, I wish I had that. I realize why certain people are so successful and I got it hour one with her.

Haley: Oh, I am currently reading a few scripts and I have a few movies that will hopefully happen either this year or next. Northwood is a movie that I filmed last year actually that will probably be coming out later this year and I play Nick Stahl's girlfriend in that.