Kamala’s Get Curious! Space Talk Used Kids That Are Professional Actors

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The first installment of Vice President Kamala Harris’s YouTube Originals space series featured child actors who auditioned for their roles in the project.

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“And then after that, like a week later, my agent called me, and he’s like, ‘Hey Trevor, you booked it,’” Trevor said.

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Last week, YouTube Originals announced Get Curious with Vice President Harris

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The project was produced by Sinking Ship Entertainment, an Emmy award-winning media company based in Toronto that specializes in live-action programming, according to its website.

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“The most exciting part was definitely meeting Vice President Harris. There’s nothing that can top that. Like honestly, she just sat us down. She’s super charismatic. She’s everything that I ever thought of her, plus more,” he said. “She made me feel like one of her peers, and at the time, I felt super important. I was talking to her face to face.” Bernardino's talent agency shared a montage on Instagram.

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The video, which by Monday had garnered some 114,000 views on YouTube, as well as 1,900 likes and 2,800 dislikes, was shared online by the vice president’s aides and supporters. A trailer for the show drew 48 likes and 136 dislikes. Comments on both videos have been disabled.

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“I am so so so excited this project is out!” wrote Emily Keller, a YouTube executive overseeing progressive civics content partnerships, according to her LinkedIn. She was the Democratic National Committee’s social media director until June.

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At the time the NASA series was filming, the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan was in collapse, with Washington’s withdrawal from the two-decade conflict drawing comparisons to the fall of Saigon in 1975.

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