![]() At the callback, director Sean Anders put her and two other finalists through their paces. She memorized her lines overnight, and came prepared. She found out about it the day before and was sent a script. The audition for “Daddy’s Home 2” was not unlike other auditions. It’s fun to get dressed up, having a different look each time. “I see it as a lot of fun,” she said, “and I can still be a kid. This summer, for instance, she was in New York four different times taking part in shoots for different New York children’s clothing designers. ![]() ‘They’ll see me coming in and they say, ‘I’ll go grab her.’” A good student, Yamilah is able to catch up pretty quickly when she’s gone for a few days.Īnd the shoots themselves are a lot of fun, Yamilah said. The middle school front desk staff knows the drill by now. The York schools have been accommodating, said Jill. I’ll say, ‘Why am I leaving?’ And she’ll say, 'You have an audition.' I say, 'OK.'” “Sometimes my mom has to come get me at school. She said although she does work, her company is “pretty flexible” about letting her rearrange her schedule.īut by now, Yamilah takes it in stride. Often, the agency tells her the night before about an audition the following day – particularly if it’s in New York. Jill said it’s been kind of a whirlwind lifestyle, having a model in the family. They were not like super, ‘You have to get this right.’ You get to have fun.” “I remember I had this thing of glue and this thing of yarn, and I had to make a heart. Shoots for Family Fun magazine, often two or three times a year. A package for a magic tea set that turned pink when you poured water in it. “I just remember seeing my face on the package and thinking, that’s pretty cool.” “I don’t really remember it,” Yamilah said. ![]() So we thought about modeling, and decided to get her an agent.” Her first shoot was for diaper packaging for Dollar General diapers. As a toddler, said Jill, “she was super energetic and outgoing, so happy and smiling. In many ways, a Hollywood movie is the kind of natural next step for Yamilah. They don’t want the surprise to be spoiled.) (Mum’s the word about saying a whole lot more, says mom Jill, except that it was in the Berkshires. Yamilah plays a girl who is spending the holidays at the same place as the two families. The Christmas-themed sequel also stars John Lithgow and Mel Gibson as the two men’s fathers. The film is the sequel to the popular comedy “Daddy’s Home,” in which Ferrell plays an over-anxious stepdad to two children whose real dad, played by Wahlberg, is a cool, connected and savvy. But when I got a callback, I thought, ‘Wow, I really do have a chance to be in a big movie. I tried out for TV once and I didn’t get it. “I honestly didn’t think I was going to get it,” Yamilah said at her York home with her parents. Because the movie was mostly filmed in Boston, they were looking for a New England girl, 11 or 12, preferably Asian, and of course, said proud mom Jill, “cute and adorable.” Yamilah, whose York mail carrier father Ti is Laotian, checked all the boxes. In some ways, the role seemed to fit her perfectly. When the Christmas season films open in November, she can be found with the likes of Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell on the big screen, in the movie “Daddy’s Home 2.” And now she can add another moniker: Hollywood actor. Yamilah Saravong is also a veteran model whose face has been on packaging and in magazine advertisements since was 3 years old and who has performed in numerous Ogunquit Playhouse productions over the years. YORK, Maine - Yamilah Saravong is a perky, charming 11-year-old girl entering sixth grade at York Middle School - a normal kid who plays with her friends, likes to jump on the trampoline in her back yard and hates math.
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