7 Secrets with Victoria Justice (2010) - full transcript

- Hello, darlings.

[Upbeat pop music]

What makes me cry?

Pink is not really my thing.

No one believes me.
My parents didn't believe me.

They thought I was crazy.

I mean,
I can throw a mean spiral.

I'm not just saying that.

Yes!
Can we do that?

That'd be awe--
that's cool!

I just hit my reflex.
That's weird.



- We're having a sleepover
tonight.

- Hey, this is
Victoria justice,

and these are my seven secrets.

* gonna show 'em
who you are *

* anything is possible *

male narrator:
Ever wonder how a normal girl

deals with becoming a superstar?

Victoria justice
is finding out,

and she's about
to share it all with you.

- Why'd you pick
the French horn?

- I don't know.

I like French fries,
French toast...

Ha!

I had to get that out.



Narrator: This is seven secrets
with Victoria justice.

- You're not gonna believe it.

[Plays drum riff]

Yeah!

Narrator:
Get ready to get real

with the megatalented
and superfashionable

Victoria justice

as she gives you
the straight scoop on herself.

- [Exhales]
Okay.

Narrator: Are you ready?

Because here comes
secret number one.

Poised and perfect Victoria
is really a total goofball.

- I'm very goofy.

[Laughing]

I don't take myself seriously.

[Stammers]

Oh, my god.
I can't talk.

Okay.

I hope--I'm gonna
go cry in a corner now.

See you guys later.

I am very clumsy.

My mom always says

that I'm the only person
she knows

that can trip
while standing still.

I mean, I literally, like--

I'll be walking on set,

perfectly, like,
alert and awake and aware,

and I'll run into walls.

I just--I don't know.

I've never been
the best on my feet.

But the thing
is that I love dancing

and I can dance,

but when it comes
to just, like,

the simple tasks of everyday,
like, walking, running,

all that kind of stuff,

it's not my thing.

I like playing practical jokes.

I'm always pranking people
on set,

and I love hiding
behind doors and stuff

and, like, hiding
in people's dressing rooms

when they come in to work

and then turning off
all the lights

so that when they walk in,

like, I jump out and scream
at the top of my lungs

and freak them out.

I like doing that.

And I do that at home
all the time too.

I'm always,
like, hiding behind walls

and scaring my mom
and my stepdad and my sister.

The best practical joke
I've ever played.

Avan, one time,
he had just gone to breakfast,

and he had a bowl of oatmeal

with milk and Cranberries
and stuff,

and he was walking upstairs,

and I was doing my usual thing,

where I was gonna
hide behind the wall

and jump out and scare him,

and so I was hiding there,

and he walks up
and rounds the corner,

and I screamed
as loud as I could

and just, like,
shoved myself in his face.

- She turns around the corner
and scares me.

My oatmeal flies into the air...

- Hit the wall,
splashed everywhere,

and I felt so awful,

because I had no idea
it was in his hand.

But it was one
of the funniest things ever.

I wish I could have videotaped.
That was priceless.

>> Narrator: "Priceless"
is the word Victoria would use

to describe the one item
she's owned her entire life.

- Here's Victoria
on her prized possession.

- One object
that I've had my whole life...

Oh! Well, in Florida,

I was obsessed with 'nsync.

They were my favorite band,

and I had this Lance bass ring
because I loved Lance bass,

and so we moved all our stuff
from Florida to L.A.,

but we still had our house
in Florida,

and I went back
to visit one time,

and I was looking through
my old closet,

and I saw this little, little
shimmering glint

in the corner of the closet,
and I walked over.

I was like, "what is that?"

And I picked it up,
and it was my Lance bass ring,

and I was so excited.

And, like, from that point on,
I wore it every single day,

even though
I was, like, 15, 16.

I didn't care.
I love my Lance bass ring.

Come back, Lance.
Come back.

>> Narrator:
'Nsync? Huh?

So now you've got an idea

of what kind of music
Victoria likes, right?

- Clap, clap, clap
clap your hands.

>> Narrator: Well, not quite.

'Nsync is downright modern

compared to what Victoria is
rocking on her iPod right now.

And that's secret number two.

Victoria and her mom
share a record collection.

That's right.
I said "record."

- I kind of have the musical
tastes of a 40-year-old woman.

I'm not gonna lie.
I mean, seriously.

I love hall and oates.
Love them.

I play them every single day
on the way to work.

I love Frankie valli
and the four seasons.

I love Carly Simon.

So I love all those oldies.

My music has a b-side,

and what I mean by that is that
I love vinyl vintage records.

So you know,
on a vinyl record,

you have an a-side,
which has about six songs,

and then a b-side, which has,
like, six other songs.

And I just--
I've always--

I just love the sound
of a vinyl record.

There's just something so,
you know, like, familiar,

and homey to it,

and it's so raw and real,

which I love,

and there's nothing like
sitting in my room

when I'm not working

and just falling asleep
to an aretha Franklin record.

Who introduced me
to vinyl records?

I think it's kind of--

my mom always
had them lying around,

but they're all, like, dusty
in a cabinet,

and I was like,
"oh, what are those?"

And we never really
took them out or anything.

And then--I don't know.

I just kind of
discovered it myself,

and I told my parents

that I really wanted
a record player for my birthday,

and so they got me one,

and I just can sit there

and listen to that sound
for hours.

The one vinyl album I could find

would probably be Abbey road,
by the Beatles,

'cause it's my favorite album
by them,

and I love every single song
off of it,

so I would love
to have that one.

>> Narrator:
So where does Victoria

make all her vinyl fantasies
come true?

- Amoeba records is one
of my favorite record stores,

because it's one of the biggest
that I've ever been to

and also the fact

that they don't really have many
record stores around anymore,

'cause everything's on iTunes
and online,

so it's just really cool
to be able to go

into such a historic,
well-known place like that,

and the vibe about it
is so awesome too.

There's graffiti on the walls,

and--if we go there,
I'll show you guys--

there's an elevator,
and it has tons of graffiti,

and it's just so dirty
and messy-looking,

but it's just
so grungy and cool,

and I love it.

This is the elevator

of one of my
favorite record stores

in Hollywood.

It's pretty cool, because
it's really dirty and grungy

and, like, there's tons
of graffiti,

and I love it.

And some gum,
which I just put my finger on.

- Eww, eww, eww.

- Hello.
Fancy seeing you here.

So let's go look around
and check out some cool jams.

Isn't this amazing?

- What is this?

- What do you do with the tape?

>> Narrator:
All that record shopping

has inspired Victoria
to make her own music shine.

- Something people might not
know about me

is that I dabble in piano,

and I just learned
the victorious theme song,

make it shine.

Here we go.

[Piano flourish]

* here I am *

* once again *

* feeling lost *

* right now and then *

* I breathe it in *

* to let it go *

* *

* and you don't know *

* where you are now *

* or what it will come to *

* if only somebody could hear *

* when you figure out
how lost in the moment *

* you disappear *

[synths and drums enter]

* you don't have to be afraid
to put your dream in action *

* you're never gonna faint *

* you'll be
the main attraction *

>> narrator: So where did
this love of music come from?

- I've kind of always been
involved in music,

ever since I was little.

I have an uncle who was, like,
in a band

in the '60s or whatever,

and so he's been singing
all his life.

At family reunions and stuff,

when I was, like, three or four,
I would go on stage

and sing, like, my girl
by the temptations with him.

Like, I've always
just loved singing

and instruments
and all that kind of stuff.

I'm learning guitar right now.

And I would love to get really,
really good at guitar

so I can, you know,
be on stage

and just, you know, have an
acoustic version all by myself.

That'd be pretty awesome.

I don't know.

Music is just always something

that's been really, really
important to me,

and it keeps me grounded,
in a way,

and if I'm ever having,
like, a weird day

or, you know, I have
too many things on my mind,

if I just sit down
and, you know,

play a couple chords

or try and write
a song on the piano,

it just, like,
centers me somehow.

I've written, like,
a couple full songs,

but right now, basically,
I just have this journal

where I'll have, like, a thought
or an idea for a song,

and I'll just, like,

start writing down
all these different ideas,

and then maybe
I'll just write one verse

or come up with a chorus
or something.

But I definitely--
I really--

when I start working
on my own solo album,

I would love to start writing
a lot of my own songs.

For sure.

* in my victory *

* just remember me *

* when I make it shine *

yeah!

>> Narrator: And now Victoria
on hitting the high notes.

- One thing
I learned about singing

that I didn't know before that

is that it helps sometimes
to get on top of a note

to use, like,
your arms to do it.

You know, like--

I don't know
how to describe it,

but if I'm hitting
a higher note,

sometimes I'll do
the Christina Aguilera thing

when she was like...
[Vocalizes]

It helps you
get on top of the note

and stay on pitch.

For some reason, it just, like,
lifts everything up.

I don't know why.
It's weird.

>> Narrator: Who knew?

Bet you didn't know
secret number three either.

Victoria's hot new look
is old.

- I love fashion.

* fashion *

I love vintage clothing.

To me, it's so much cooler
than wearing anything else,

because it's kind of like
you found it.

When you walk
into a vintage store,

there's racks and racks
of just, like, old clothes,

and the fact
that you have to go through

and search for it yourself

and you find something that
really means something to you,

it kind of makes it
more special, in a way.

Most of the time,
I love going to, like,

secondhand stores
and vintage stores

and just getting, like, really,
like quirky, weird pieces

and then, like,
mixing it together

with, you know,
some type of designer thing

and just kind of
creating my own thing.

So I don't know.
I love fashion.

It's awesome.

But most of the days,
I kind of just love

wearing, like, ripped jeans
and, like, old converse.

Okay, so remember how I said
I love vintage clothes?

We're here at one
of my favorite spots right now,

so let's go in.

It's, like, coolest shoes ever.

Big plaid things like this
are what I love to wear.

I have about, like,
ten of these at home.

Can you see me wearing this one?
- Yeah.

- This is happening.

[Gasps] Cute.

I can't show it to you yet.

You have to wait
until I try it on.

Be right back.

Yeah.

Bam.

Bam!

I don't really know
what to say.

But wait,
there's more.

Got some cool shades on,
and good to go.

We are done here and moving on
to the next box.

>> Narrator: Vintage shopping

isn't the only thing that puts
a smile on Victoria's face.

Here's Victoria on happiness.

- What makes me really happy?

I love walking my dogs, like,
on a beautiful day in L.A.

Makes me really, really happy.

I love, like I said, food.

Going to my local diner
by my house with my friends

and getting breakfast
makes me happy.

Getting to sleep in
makes me happy.

I love listening to music.

Whenever, like, I get
into a recording studio

and I know that I did my best

and I couldn't have done
any better than that,

that just makes me really happy.

Like, knowing that I worked

really, really hard
for something

and I got the results
that I wanted,

there's no better feeling.

That's why I love performing.

That's why I love
acting and stuff,

because just seeing
people's reaction

when you know
you nailed something

or getting the laugh
that you wanted is--

there's no better feeling.

>> Narrator:
What's the one thing

Victoria can't bear to watch...

- It's literally torture
for me.

>> Narrator: Her fascination
with facial hair...

- I don't know; It's so weird,
but I just love it.

It's so much fun.

>> Narrator: And her secret
to success?

- I have amazing parents
and an awesome mom

who always told me...

>> Narrator: We're spilling
more seven secrets

when we come back.

- Seven secrets
will be right back.

- Right or left?

Right.
I'm right-handed.

First thing I think of

when I wake up in the morning

is food.

Shorts or skirts?
Shorts, for sure.

I hate wearing skirts.

I'm a sucker

for a really, really sweet
romantic comedy.

Window or aisle?

I would say window.

Yeah, I love photography.

Tea or coffee?
I would say tea.

>> Narrator: What about facial
or no facial hair?

Well, it's the subject
of our next secret,

and it's a hairy one,
for sure.

Secret number four:
Victoria loves mustaches.

- Yeah, dude,
I love mustaches.

The mustache phenomenon.
What can I say?

I mean, I don't even have
a good explanation

for why, when, and how
I love them.

I just do.

I just woke up one day,
and I was like, "mustaches,"

and I started
googling mustaches.

I have mustache stickers.

I have mustache band-aids.

I even have hidden
mustache stickers

all around my room.

So, like, if you really look,

you can find them in,
like, weird places.

The background for my laptop
became mustaches.

I draw mustaches
on me and my friends.

It's just mustaches galore
always.

- I don't know; It's so weird,
but I just love it.

It's so much fun.

And to top it off,
look what else we found.

Mustache rings.

>> Narrator:
While all you boys out there
get started on your mustaches,

let's check out our next secret.

Victoria is not originally
from California,

but she is from Hollywood.

No, it's not one of those
weird riddles.

It's secret number five:
From Hollywood to Hollywood.

- I grew up in Hollywood,
Florida,

really close
to the beach,

and I grew up in this amazing--

I mean, it's very, like,
art deco, where I live,

and, like, every other Sunday,

we would go to this brunch place
called Angelo's corner,

and we would just, like,
walk on the beach together

as a family and...

I had a really, really
great childhood,

and it was just, like,
a really beautiful place,

and that's the way
I like my home.

I love the beach either way,

so I'll still go
to L.A. beaches,

but, I mean, as soon
as I get in, I'm freezing cold,

but my body gets numb
after 20 minutes of it,

so you're just like,
you don't really care anymore.

But that's probably
the biggest difference.

The difference
between the Hollywoods?

Well, since I'm originally
from Hollywood, Florida,

Hollywood is very--

it's kind of, like, art deco,

and I live, like, a couple
blocks away from the beach,

so I never wore a lot of makeup,

and my hair was just kind of
the way it was when I woke up,

which is really cool,

and it's very colorful
in Miami.

Like, there's tons of, like,
ethnic flavor.

It's like a giant melting pot,

and that's also similar
to Hollywood, California, too,

because there's so many
different ethnicities

all coming together,
which is really cool.

Okay, I wouldn't wear this
in Hollywood, Florida,

or Hollywood, California,

but I'm just gonna
try it on for fun anyways.

The difference between Florida
lifestyle versus L.A.

You know,
they're pretty similar,

because I never really lived in,
like, a small town.

I've always lived in the city,
kind of.

But, I mean, they're both
really sunny and beautiful

most of the time.

I think as far as, like,
the atmosphere,

it's different.

I think L.A., the traffic
is a lot more intense

than in Florida,
that's for sure.

>> Narrator: Coming up,

what Victoria hates doing

and who she loves hanging with.

We're cracking it wide open

when seven secrets
with Victoria justice returns.

- Be right back
with more seven secrets

right after this.

>> Narrator: We're back,

and we've dug up
some more secrets

we want to share.

But first here's Victoria on
a typical day on the set.

- Breaking the fourth wall.

What happens on the set
of victorious.

Well, I wake up usually--

you know, this isn't
my favorite part--

around, like, 7:00,
6:S0 sometimes, on a bad day,

and, you know, Monday, Tuesday
are our rehearsal days,

so we'll get the script, like,
really late on Sunday night.

So then I'll wake up early.

I'll read it
on the way to work,

and then we have a table read,

and then after that,
we rehearse pretty much all day.

I go home, eat, sleep,
do it all over again,

and then on Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday,

are our shoot days.

So on those days,

I usually have earlier
call times,

so I'll have to come in and do--
get hair and makeup done

for about two hours,

but that's one of my favorite
part of the days,

because, like,
the entire cast is in there,

and we just talk

about everything
that's going on in our lives.

We complain for a little bit
about certain things.

But we just have so much fun.

Hey, Matt, what's up?

Just some homeless dude

that always comes in
and hangs out on set.

You know, I think a lot of
people think that, you know,

being on TV is, like,
glamorous and amazing

and hair and makeup
and wardrobe,

and it's awesome,
and it is really cool,

but it's also
a lot of hard work too.

It's a lot of work,
but it's a lot of fun,

because I'm with my friends
every single day

and I have an amazing crew

and it's just like hanging out
with a close group of friends

and doing what you love,
so it's pretty awesome.

I'm really lucky, because I get
to work with an amazing cast.

We have so much fun together.

- And cut.

[Cheers and applause]

>> Narrator: Victoria might
think working in television

is pretty awesome,

but there's one part of her job
she can't stand.

It's secret number six.

Victoria can't watch herself
on TV,

- this might sound weird
because, you know,

I'm an actress and everything,

but I actually hate
watching myself on TV.

It's literally torture for me.

Whenever I'm
in a group of friends

and they're like, "oh, let's
watch your show," or whatever

or I'm watching it at home,

I literally either
have to leave the room

or, like, cover my eyes--
I'm just, like, you know,

start talking really loudly
so no one else can hear it.

But it's just really hard
for me to watch myself.

I start thinking, like,

"oh, that could
have been funnier.

Oh, no, could have
done that better,"

or, "what are you doing with
your mouth there, Victoria?"

You know,
I'll just start thinking

all these weird things
in my head.

But I do love watching
the episodes by myself.

It's just kind of
a lonely existence,

sitting at home alone

when, like, no one else
is around.

Kind of sad, but...

Personally, I'm really,
really hard on myself

and very critical,

and I always like
everything I do to be perfect,

and nothing I ever do
is gonna be perfect,

so I kind of
have to get used to that.

>> Narrator: So what is
Victoria's secret to success?

It's Victoria on
dreaming big.

- I have amazing parents
and an awesome mom

who always told me,
you know,

if you want to do something,
go for it,

and, you know--
this sounds cheesy--

but dream big,

because if you don't have big
goals and aspirations,

then you have nothing
to build up to.

I came out here having a goal
in mind

and knowing that I loved it,

and I worked really,
really hard at it,

and I had an awesome family
who was supporting me 100%

all the way,

and, you know, there are times
when, you know,

I can get hard,

because you'll audition
all the time

and you get said no to

a lot more
than you get said yes to

as far as it comes to, like,
booking roles,

and so, you know,
there would be times

where I'd be really disappointed

when I worked really, really
hard for something

and really want something

and then you don't get it.

And it's pretty disappointing,

and at that point in time,

you start thinking, "oh,
this is never gonna happen,"

or this and that.

And you just have
to remember that

you just have to keep going.

If you really, really want it,
you have to keep trying

and you have to work harder
and harder and harder,

and that's what I've been doing,

and, you know, I'm so lucky

to have my own show
on nickelodeon, you know.

It's an amazing opportunity,

and I feel so, so grateful.

Hopefully after
I'll be able to do movies.

I'd love to do movies,

and I want to work
on my music a lot.

I'm really excited
to work on a solo album

and start writing
a lot of my own music.

And, yeah, I think as long--

you just have to really, really
believe in yourself

and really go for it,

because if you just sit at home
and complain

and say, "oh, I wish
I could do that,"

then it's never gonna happen.

You actually have to get up
and do it.

>> Narrator:
Know what else can help

to make your dreams come true?

A great friend.

And Victoria's definitely
got one of those.

And guess what.

He can actually grow
one of those mustaches,

because secret number seven is,

Victoria's best friend
is a guy.

- So everyone always asks me
who my best friend is,

and they always assume
it's a girl,

but the fact of the matter is,
is that it's a guy.

His name is avan jogia,

and he's actually on my show,
victorious, with me.

He plays Beck,

and we met on the set of
spectacular!

This other nickelodeon movie
we did together in Canada.

He's even told me
since that day

that he'll never experience

another moment like that
ever again.

- That's not true.
That's not true.

- It's like, when you meet
someone of that caliber,

it's, like, what do you do
after that?

- Kiss me.

- Little weird.

Let's do it.

- Man, I love this school.

He's really, really funny.

Like, we totally get
each other's sense of humor,

because we're both weird.

Like, we don't have, like--
I don't know.

We're just weird.

We make up weird songs.
We make up weird dances.

We're just--weird voices.

We're just always weird
together.

He's, like, my weird friend.

* brrring-ding, ding, ding *

* here I am *

- * once again *

- * brrring-ding, ding, ding *

[stammering lyrics]

* brrring-ding *

- all right, what kind of jokes
have you played on me?

- What kind of jokes
have I played on you?

- Other than toying
with my emotions?

- And we just, like,
immediately hit it off.

Like, he doesn't
take himself seriously.

He's so goofy and funny and...

You know, he's really musical,
like I am,

and he's just, like,
a really sweet, really kind guy,

and I see him pretty much
every day of my life

for the past two years,

and we have a lot of fun
together.

Avan, I can kind of see you
wearing these.

- Those are nice.
- I actually could too.

- Kind of, right?

- Or these.

Huh?
- Wait, wait, wait.

- What?

It lights up.

Even though he's a guy,
we still--

we do a lot of the girl stuff
together.

Like, I'll dress him up.
I'll do his makeup.

I'm just kidding.
[Laughs]

He's gonna kill me
for saying that.

And the thing I love about avan
is that, you know,

I can be bored at my house
and be, like,

"avan, come over.
I have nothing to do,"

and he'll just come over,

and we'll hang out in my room
and just play guitar

and do nothing,
like, literally nothing.

So, you know, he's just
a super laid-back guy

and really down-to-earth
and really, really sweet too.

I get to work with him
every single day,

which is so cool!

I mean, like, getting to work
with your best friend

on this awesome TV show--

we just have so much fun
together.

And our dressing rooms are
right next door to each other,

so we're always, like,
hanging out,

and during lunch, we all go to
avan's dressing room, usually,

or in the green room.

>> Narrator: Victoria,
all we can say is,

he's lucky to have
a friend like you.

- * you might be crazy *

* have I told you lately
that I love you? *

* you're the only reason
that I'm not afraid to fly *

* and it's crazy *

* that someone could change me *

* now no matter what it is
I have to do *

* I'm not afraid to try *

* you need to know
that you're the reason why *

now you've got the scoop on me.

Remember, I like
to prank my friends,

so watch your back.

Bye.

- * so tell me
that you love me *

* yeah, and tell me
that I take your breath away *

* maybe if you take one more *

* then I would know for sure *

* there's nothing left to say *

* tell me that you love me
anyway *

* tell me that you love me *

* yeah *

* and tell me
that I take your breath away *

* maybe if you take one more *

* then I would know for sure *

* there's nothing left to say *

* but tell me
that you love me anyway *