![]() The film, a sequel to “Daddy’s Home,” focuses on the rivalry between Wahlberg and Ferrell. Locations in Massachusetts included Lawrence and Concord in the east and Great Barrington in the west. Yamilah ended up filming for 14 days over a period of about 40 days in March, April and May. She got a call back for a second audition, then an email saying she was hired, pending approval from Paramount Pictures, the Hollywood studio producing the movie. Then, at the audition, they asked her to say the lines in various ways, including yelling them. When the Saravongs found out about the auditions for “Daddy’s Home 2,” Yamilah had one day to memorize three or four lines. Yamilah, right, as Casey, with Adriana Costine as Adrianna and Scarlett Estevez as Megan and in “Daddy’s Home 2.” “Would you have let them cut my hair?” Yamilah asked her mother. But the hair and makeup folks decided that would not work, and they fit her for a boyish wig instead. Yamilah’s memory of playing Tam is that there was a frightening – to her – discussion of cutting her hair. When Yamilah was about 5, the theater was putting on a production of “Miss Saigon” and needed several local boys to share the role of Tam, the 3-year-old son of a Vietnamese woman and an American soldier.Ī staff member at the theater approached Yamilah’s father, Ti Saravong, a mail carrier originally from Laos, and asked if his daughter might play the part. She’s also been in larger productions at the playhouse. She had never acted on film before, but she’s been in theater productions, including shows at Ogunquit Playhouse that were part of theater camps. She goes to auditions in New York City a few times a month and probably does five or six modeling jobs a year, her mother said. She also appeared as a toddler on the box of a Playskool toy tea set, and more recently she’s done shoots for children’s clothing lines. She eventually did, but the image that appears on the diaper box shows her fully-clothed, no diaper in sight. She says she remembers it vividly because she was recently potty trained, and proud of it, and did not want to put on the diaper. Yamilah’s first photo shoot was for Dollar General diapers, when she was about 3. Yamilah Saravong, 11, shown at home in York, auditioned for and earned a part in “Daddy’s Home 2,” starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow and Linda Cardellini, which opens nationwide on Nov. The film was shot in Massachusetts, creating opportunities for New England actors.īesides Yamilah there’s one other Maine actor in the film, Matthew Delamater of Portland, who plays a store clerk dealing with the film’s stars as they venture out on a gun shopping trip. She plays Casey, a girl whom the son of Wahlberg’s character has a crush on. Though she only has one speaking scene – with the wacky Ferrell – she’s seen and mentioned throughout the film. Yamilah’s first-hand assessment of Gibson comes after she spent 14 days this spring on the set of “Daddy’s Home 2,” a comedy starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, John Lithgow, Linda Cardellini and Gibson that opens Nov. “The other adult actors sort of stayed to themselves, but he would come over and hang out with the kids. What’s green and red? A frog in a blender,” said Yamilah, recounting her time with Gibson earlier this year. “What’s black and white and red all over? Two nuns in a fist fight. A part-time Portland actor comes face to face with some stars in ‘Daddy’s Home 2’. ![]()
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