A new documentary mining the behind-the-scenes magic that made “Degrassi” a teen television sensation will premiere in September.
The film, “Degrassi: Whatever It Takes,” dropped its first trailer Aug. 27, teasing interviews with some of the series’ biggest stars, including Canadian rapper Drake. In contrast to some of the other recent documentary films that have chosen to revisit beloved teen dramas with a more critical eye, “Whatever it Takes” seems to adopt a slightly rosier view of the series, which ran in some form for decades.
Beyond Drake, no doubt the biggest star to come out of the show, the documentary will also combine interviews with stars Dayo Ade, Stefan Brogren, Amanda Deiseach, Maureen Deiseach, Shenae Grimes-Beech, Jake Epstein, Shane Kippel, Miriam McDonald, Stacie Mistysyn, Melinda Shankar, Amanda Stepto and Jordan Todosey.
At the start of the trailer, Drake recounts being cast on the show, saying, “I didn’t have a great time in high school. I just didn’t really fit in …Then one day, my mom called me and told me, ‘You got the role.’ And I just grabbed my bag and left. And man, what a wild journey that started.”
Other stars then went on to describe how the awkward, coming-of-age plotlines that drove the show’s success were also happening to the actors themselves behind the scenes.
“All that stuff that happened on the show was stuff that was happening to us in real life,” Ade told the cameras.
The back half of the trailer takes a more serious tone, focusing on how the young stars of “Degrassi” faced mounting pressure amid the show’s success, to differentiate from their characters, and weathered more scrutiny and criticism than they were prepared for.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: New ‘Degrassi’ documentary shows how stars did ‘whatever it takes’
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