8 Luca: Your career is still so young, but what’s been your favorite role so far? Madison: That’s a tough question. It’s probably Charlotte from “Still the King”. She’s just a cool chick. Every time I think about days on set, I just have the best memories, and it was just such a good time. I think the whole entire project and the people I was with and the characters we played, all of that together makes playing Charlotte my best experience. After playing her for two years, I feel I am her and I connected with her and I love her. Luca: Does anyone make your heart skip a beat? Madison: Definitely, I have a significant other who I’m very fond of. His name is Spencer Sutherland. He’s a cutie (laughs).
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Luca: Is there a particular charity or cause that you are involved with or learning about? Madison: I try to stay involved as much as I possibly can, especially with things that are super-current, like everything that was happening with Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. One of the charities I’ve worked with since I was 15 is a smaller charity called Start With One – Kenya. I have actually traveled with them out to Africa. Before I even moved to LA, I was in South Carolina and I went with my church, and they’re just a great organization. They install water filters into people’s campsites and homes so they can have access to clean water. I’ve stayed in touch with them throughout the years and try to help out as much as I can. Luca: That’s fantastic. Where do you think those values were instilled in you? Madison: 100%, my parents. They’re the greatest people in the world. Fun fact: I was actually a wild child in high school. I won’t get into too much detail, but I had a really big wakeup call in high school, and was in with the wrong crowd and not doing great things, and I just had this realization of, “Where am I gonna be in ten years if I keep doing this?” If someone were to say something about me, like, what do I want them to say about me? Or in the morbid world, what do I want them to put on my gravestone? I don’t know, I just want to live a happy life and make other people happy. My parents have always taught that to me from a young age.
insane thing they could possibly do. And so, they just got a hose and stuck it up through her clothes and she held it on the side of her mouth. And but it wasn’t just one spurt. They only showed one spurt of it coming out of her mouth, but they had it going on – I’m not kidding – for a straight minute, just throwing up this mix of oatmeal and apple juice. It was a mixture of all the grossest things they could possibly put together and it’s just all over us. We were drenched. It was disgusting. That was one of those days (laughs). Another day, we flipped a giant taco truck in a high-speed chase. It was just so random, and all they wanted to do was flip the giant taco truck, and that day was absolutely terrifying because our stunt coordinator, Rocky, was in the car as it flipped. He was fine, but it was absolutely terrifying. Luca: With so much career still in front of you, whom do you look up to in your field? Madison: You know, my two go-tos are probably Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston because I love the both of them and I love their career and their career paths. I don’t necessarily even know where I want my career to go, but I’ve looked up to them since I was young, and I still do. They’re not only amazing actors, they’re great influences on the world and great role models and really strong, independent women in our industry. Luca: You mentioned not knowing where you want to take your career, but do you have any specific goals that you’d like to pursue? Madison: You know, I just like to work and I have so many things I want to do, it’s hard for me to put it in a box. One day I’d love to do a Nicholas Sparks romance movie, and then one day I’d love to be doing some crazy sci-fi alien movie. I have so many things I want to do, I don’t know exactly which is the one that is the one, you know? Luca: Final request, tell us something about you that not many people know. Madison: I can lick my elbow. Like, no one else can really do it. If, you try right now, I bet you can’t do it. I’ve got a size four and a half foot, which is really small. And I’m allergic to eggs. Catch Madison Iseman in this season’s highly-anticipated blockbuster “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”, starring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan.
Luca: With those life changes in mind, what do you think people might say about today’s version of Madison? Madison: Probably...grounded, weird, and silly. I guess weird and silly are similar, but it works. Luca: What’s the craziest thing that you’ve experienced while shooting a scene? Madison: There’s this scene we did for “Still the King”, and me and my special friend on the show, played by Luke Benward, we’re about to get a little serious at a party I’m throwing at my house. My best friend Mabel, played by Chelsea Talmadge, runs up and has had too much to drink and basically throws up all over us after like our fourth attempt of being alone. Oh my gosh, all the producers on our show are just insanely crazy and try to think of the most
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