After the film, contestants participated in film trivia while munching on Grimaldi’s pizza, while nearby folks donned costumes and had their photos taken with fake Academy Awards. Upstairs, a more sedate crowd swilled cocktails made from taurine-infused vodka, pomegranate juice and soda and milled between snack tables and the dance floor.

Bonilla and Inoa were dancing with friends, gabbing and smiling. Bronx-born Inoa told us she’s not much like her character Stefanie, who struggles with overprotective parents.“It’s not how I grew up,” she said. Any similarities? “Yeah, there are a lot of girls in my neighborhood who talk just like that,” she admitted in reference to Stefanie’s f-bomb-heavy New York twang.

Electric sliding up to Bonilla, we asked the heartthrob if he was like his character. Sort of. In the movie, his character pees on his shoes, so we asked about the strangest place he’d ever gone.Thankfully, he took it in stride.“Probably in the car on a road trip.You go into a bottle and then throw it out the window. Or on the train tracks at the 8th Avenue L,” he said with a smile.“But if I peed in a straight line, it would have come back at me, so I went sideways.”

Which is exactly the direction we shuffled off in.