Page 3 - MIdWeek Kauai - Feb 24, 2021

FEBRUARY 24, 2021
KAUA‘I MIDWEEK 3
Life is a blast these days for actor Reyn Doi, who
plays the fun-loving Yoyo in the just-released Hflick “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.”
e’s just a boy, but 12-year-old time experience.”
Reyn Doi of Mānoa stole the Doi was able to see the film show with his breakout role as a couple of times before it was
Yoyo in the new film Barb and Star Go to released Feb. 12, and admits
Vista Del Mar.
From the opening scene, where he rides
he was “laughing really hard” throughout.
a bicycle through a neighborhood deliver- ing newspapers while belting out the lyr- ics to Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb’s Guilty, to the very end, he’s memorable, charming and straight-up adorable, even as a villain.
Wiig and Mumolo
co-star and co-wrote the
screenplay for the movie
(they also wrote Bridesmaids),
which is about two best friends
who leave their small Midwestern
town for the first time to go on a dream Floridian vacation filled with adventure, romance and, of course, an evil villain who wants to kill everyone.
In a memorable scene from the movie Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Reyn Doi sings the Barbara Streisand/Barry Gibb song Guilty while delivering newspapers. PHOTO COURTESY RICHARD FOREMAN JR. SMPSP/LIONSGATE
“It was so fun,” he says. “I had a blast. Being able to work with Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo and other different actors ... I feel that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and a once-in-a-life-
It was Doi’s first feature film, and one that he’ll forever cher-
ish. Filming took place in various locations through-
out the summer of 2019, including in Mexico.
“One highlight (of
this experience) would
be the opening bike
riding scene because that
was my final day of shooting, and my mom got sick that day
and she had to go to the hospi- tal,” shares Doi. “I was nervous and worried because she’s my support system, but I come to set and Kristen was there and
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