Victoria Ruesga
Victoria Ruesga
Victoria Ruesga (born June 4, 1997) is an American actress who gained fame for her breakout role as Ryan in the 2019 comedy Booksmart. She won critical acclaim for her work, and attended the film's debut at the 2019 South by Southwest.
Early Life
Victoria was born on June 4, 1997 in the United States. She is from North Hollywood, Los Angeles. She grew up Skateboarding and made her acting debut in the 2019 comedy Booksmart.
Career
Victoria began acting by starting off with smaller background roles.
She is best known for her role as " Ryan" in Olivia Wilde's directorial debut film "Booksmart" (2019), a story where two high school bookworms cramp 4 years of high school fun into one night before graduation day.
In the film Victoria Ruesga plays Ryan, a cheery skateboarder and Amy’s crush.
When we first meet Ryan, she skates onto screen through a confetti toss of potato chips in a Deathwish tee… just before skating right into Amy.
She was profiled in Refinery29, Buzzfeed News, and Vulture following her breakout performance in Booksmart.
She is also a professional skateboarder and post her skateboarding videos on her Instagram page.
Interview
You’ve been skating since you were six and you’re used to skating in front of the camera.
What was it like doing that on movie set?
Oh man.
It was way different.
You can film a trick on your phone like, for Instagram or whatever and that’s great.
But, if you’re going to film a real thing, you want VX or a HD camera, like it’s a little bit more advanced.
What was that shooting that first scene like?
That scene, they were very free with it.
They asked my friend, Mikey Alfred to help out that day.
He started out skating but now he works a lot in the movie industry and actually helped on Mid90s.
It was funny.
Like, there were these big cameras, like these huge cameras and these super techy guys are just running around in circles chasing me on my skateboard.
I thought that was the funniest thing.
I probably just skated around for like 15-20 minutes while they chased me with the cameras.
It was all whatever I wanted to do.