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The one-minute clip begins with Michael (Ryder McLaughlin) burning the tips of his shoelaces as he and his friends, Adolf (Aramis Hudson) and Jay (Nico Hiraga), get ready to skate in a school. A security guard, portrayed by
Workaholics alum Blake Anderson, tries to stop them from skating and filming on the property but is properly foiled by Adolf as he blocks him from disrupting Michael’s trick. The chaotic yet amusing scene reaches its apex when another security guard comes over and is mooned by Jay, causing the skaters and the security guards to get into a kerfuffle. It quickly switches over to a church where Michael, Adolf and Jay can be seen serving as altar boys.
The one-and-a-half-minute clip features a short but sweet interaction between Michael (Ryder McLaughlin), who is sporting a shiner, and Rachel (Miranda Cosgrove) in a grocery store, subtly presenting the dynamic of their relationship as Earl Lewis & The Channels’ “You Promised Me Love” plays in the background. The scene then switches over to a scene with Michael with his two friends, Jay (Nico Hiraga) and Adolf (Aramis Hudson), spending their afternoon in a skate park as the song plays on.
The coming-of-age tale produced by Illegal Civ, Pharrell Williams, Noah Centineo, Mimi Valdés, Malcolm Washington, Yusef Chabayta and Andrew Chennisi, and focuses on a kid who must make the tough decision of either choose his father’s dream or his own of becoming a pro skater: