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Joey King Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions

Joey King visits WIRED to answer her most searched questions on Google. Where did Joey meet her husband? How old was she when she made Ramona and Beezus? How did she meet Taylor Swift? Joey King answers these questions and plenty more as she does the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.

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Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Lydia Bowden; Matthew Colby
Talent: Joey King
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Meredith Judkins
Camera Operator: Lucas Vilicich
Sound Mixer: Paul Cornett
Production Assistant: Liza Antonova; Fernanda Barajas
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds

Released on 06/26/2024

Transcript

I'm Joey King

and this is the Wired Autocomplete interview.

[upbeat jazz music]

[laughs] That's really funny.

[upbeat jazz music]

Here we go.

Was Joey King on Survivor?

Kind of.

So growing up, Survivor was my family's favorite show.

We would have family night every Thursday,

then it changed to Wednesday.

If you're a fan, you know,

and we were friendly with some of the family of Sir Probst

and I got to ask a question at the season finale

to the contestant Ozzy,

who I was in love with at the time.

So technically yes, I was on Survivor

and it's a really funny haircut I had.

Joey King, glambot fail.

Oh guys, it's, you know, it's true.

I was at the People's Choice Awards in 2020

or 2021, I don't remember.

It was my first time doing a glambot

and I like, you know, spun around and made a silly face

and like gave a thumbs up and gave like a half smirk.

But for some reason I looked totally toothless

and like so ugly.

I would make fun of me too.

I actually constantly do make fun of me

when I do some stupid stuff like that.

Joey King, Dark Knight Rises.

That's true.

I was in the Dark Knight Rises.

I was 11 I think when I was in that movie, 10 or 11.

The Chris Nolan Batman universe was just so cool.

Like, I can't believe I still get to say that that's true.

First time I shaved my head

and then I fell in love with it and kept doing it.

Joey King, family affair.

Family Affair, my new movie

with Nicole Kidman and Zach Efron.

It's wonderful and it's super funny and it's super cute

and I'm super proud of it and yeah, watch it, please.

Who is Joey King's best friend?

Probably my sisters.

They're both my best friends.

Kelly and Hunter, shout out to them.

First of all, I'm the youngest sister.

I'm the youngest of three.

My oldest sister is very, Kelly,

she's very much like older sister vibe.

She's like likes to take care of all of us.

She's a little bit more type A.

My middle sister Hunter, she's very like funny

and also very sensitive and has a huge heart.

And then there's me.

I think I'm thoughtful.

I like to buy people presents.

I like to wrap presents.

Who is Joey King to Selena Gomez?

Joey King to Selena Gomez was the Ramona counterpart

in the movie Ramona and Beezus.

That was my first leading role when I was a youngster.

I was nine when I made that movie with Selena.

That was the job I really fell in love with what I do.

Who designed Joey King's wedding dress?

Oscar de la Renta.

Prettiest thing I've ever put on my body.

Like the biggest thing I've ever put on my body.

It's sitting in like a closet in the house

and it's like bursting at the seams,

like just trying to get out of the closet, it's so large.

I don't know how you preserve those.

Like do you get it like shadow boxed, like vacuum sealed?

I don't know, I don't want it to yellow.

Any tips on how to preserve my wedding dress?

It's kind of just sitting in a closet right now

and I know that's not how you are supposed to save it.

Who attended Joey King's wedding?

I don't know, 115 people.

You wanna know every single one of them?

I don't know what to tell you.

My family did, my friends came,

his friends from Chicago,

my husband's from Chicago.

It was a destination wedding.

It was in Majorca and if you're not from New York,

it took at least two planes to get there.

So a lot of people who love us came

and we were really appreciative of that

and it was the best weekend of my life.

Okay, how is, how is Joey King?

[laughing] That's really funny.

I'm fine.

You know, I'm okay.

I'm doing, I'm trucking along.

I'm happy, I'm pretty good.

Does Joey King have an accent?

I mean, don't we all have some kind of accent?

I'm American, I'm from California.

I grew up with a grandmother and a mom who are from Philly.

I hate the sound of my own voice.

Who doesn't?

That has nothing to do with the question.

I have an accent probably, an American accent.

Why is Joey King in Romania?

I was in Romania filming my television series,

my mini series called We Were The Lucky Ones.

I loved it there because I loved making that show

and I also adopted my dog there, so that's really cool.

Fable, shout out to Fable

for capturing my heart in Romania, ya weirdo.

Now you live in Los Angeles, you lucky duck.

When did Joey King meet her husband?

I met my husband while working

on a television show called The Act.

He was directing and I was acting

and I was so smitten with him

and I convinced him to go on a date with me

and the rest is history.

And yeah, so I asked him out,

which was really brave of me.

Can't believe I did that, but I'm glad I did.

It worked out.

So that's how I met my husband.

Love you babe.

When did Joey King meet Taylor Swift?

I met Taylor Swift for the first time

when I was, I think 11 years old.

I was in the Mean music video with her.

She's BFFs with Selena, which we know.

She was like, oh my God, she should be in my music video.

And I was like literally so excited.

My God, one of the coolest moments for me.

How old was Joey King in Ramona and Beezus?

I was nine years old.

I was eight when I auditioned for it

and they thought I was too young

to play Ramona so I didn't get it.

And then it took them so long to like keep looking

for other Ramona's while they were casting it

that they actually called me back again like a year later.

They were like, we know you're a little older now.

Maybe you wanna come and audition again.

And I was really excited and then I got it

and that changed my life.

The cool part about starting so young

was that it was like kind of just fun for me.

Like I didn't quite understand the responsibility of it

and I just fell in love with the feeling of it,

of like letting loose.

I loved pretending as a kid and I still love pretending.

Are Joey King and Hunter King sisters?

Bingo, correct.

We are sisters happily.

We've been sisters happily for the past 25 years.

Thank goodness, she's the best.

Joey King, minions.

I'm in the new Despicable Me movie, Despicable Me 4.

It's so funny, it's so cute

and I can't wait for people to see it.

It makes me LOL.

Joey King, Vanity Fair Oscar party.

What did I do?

Did I do something?

Was it when I was taking shots on the red carpet

with the Entertainment Tonight interviewer?

That was like, I was being polite.

Although I did instigate it a little bit,

but he had it there.

I'm always afraid that's like I did something wrong

or like I did something embarrassing.

But no, I kind of slayed with that outfit.

I was wearing a full Balenciaga look

that just, mmm, I love that dress so much.

I was so curious how they make it look like that

and they like, it's like silk

and they dip it or spray it in this wax material

to preserve the shape of it after draping it.

I just, it's so cool.

Is Joey King a dancer?

Not professionally, but I can throw down.

Joey King, Life cereal.

This was my first job ever in the industry.

I did a Life cereal commercial.

I was four and it was so cute.

I looked like a little cherub at the time.

What happened?

And then I remember I spilled the milk and I cried

'cause I thought I did something wrong

and my mom was like, no, like chill.

Like you're cute, everyone loved it.

And I was like, what do you mean?

I was so emotional.

That kind of kick started everything.

Life cereal commercial man

and Life cereal is in my top three favorite cereals today.

But the cinnamon Life cereal specifically.

You know what, this was really fun

and like I said, I hate the sound of my own voice,

so hopefully you don't.

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