Mia Isaac Says 'Don't Make Me Go' Cast and Crew Didn't Believe She Could Drive

Mia Isaac i s having a huge month. First, the 18-year-old stars with John Cho in the Hannah Marks-directed film "Don't Make Me Go," which hit Prime Video on July 15. Later this month, she will also appear alongside Zoey Deutch and Dylan O'Brien in the influencer satire "Not Okay." And although the young actress had full faith in the cast and crew of 'Don't Make Me Go' despite being early in her career, there was apparently one thing they weren't so. sure she can do: drive. That's a big deal in a movie about a road trip.

"I knew how to drive, but no one believed me," Isaac told POPSUGAR. In the film, Isaac's Wally learns to pilot a vehicle for the first time - with disastrous results. Isaac says that neither she nor Cho actually drove the car most of the time during filming. a nacelle on top of the vehicle took care of it to ensure everyone's safety.

"But we had to do this free-driving scene where I had to drive the car, and everyone was like, 'Mia, are you sure you can do this?'" she said. "I was like, 'I've got my license. I've had my license for almost a year. I promise I can do this.' And nobody believed me, but I did really well, I think."

In the film, Wally and his father, Max (Cho), drive from California to New Orleans in search of his mother, who has abandoned the family. But Wally doesn't know why they're making the trip - and she doesn't know her father's ulterior motive: he has terminal cancer and has decided not to have surgery. Despite the sad subject matter, the film has a lot of joy thanks to the incredible chemistry between Isaac and Cho.

“I think it came very naturally to us,” Cho told POPSUGAR. "It wasn't something we had to work on a lot, I have to say. She felt like family to me pretty immediately, and then [the script] really drove us."

Cho says he was drawn to the project because he's a father himself and the on-screen relationship resonated with him. "But in a broader sense, too, it just felt timely. I just feel like in our country we're becoming more and more fractured, and that was something about the thing that everyone everyone can identify with, each person has in common,” he says.

Isaac also says she immediately fell in love with the script. It helped that she wasn't a travel newbie. "I've been on a lot of road trips with my family. They were very cramped," she says. "We have a little, little Prius, and there's five people in my family, and we're all cramped in that car and going where we want to go... It's like one of those clown cars, and everyone fits in."