{"id":623833,"date":"2026-10-08T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623833\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:28:11","slug":"crew-girls-miku-martineau-on-rowing-boot-camp-and-love-triangles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623833\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew Girl’s Miku Martineau on Rowing Boot Camp and Love Triangles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter a day of New York Fashion Week and press, actress Miku Martineau<\/a> opted to spend the night in. Instead of buzzing around the city, as she had during the day, the 22-year-old settled in for the night to watch the latest Netflix<\/a> YA, Crew Girl<\/a>. To be fair, Martineau, as the star of the rowing-centric sports romance series, has been waiting quite awhile to see the finished product. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI came home at 9 p.m. and just got in my pajamas and started watching,\u201d she tells The Hollywood Reporter on a Zoom from New York. \u201cIt really intrigued me because I played a lot of sports growing up. I also had never done a coming-of-age YA sports romance story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Toronto native had little to no knowledge about rowing going into the show, which premiered on the platform on Sept. 10. \u201cWe had a three-week bootcamp to learn how to row. All of the actors, my castmates and myself,\u201d Martineau says. \u201cWe wanted to do our best to portray the sport accurately with what we were given and the time that we were given.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Vivian Lin-created series, Martineau plays high school student Teagan Tao, a California high school student who\u2019s been forced to move across the country to a an elite prep school. A rowing star at her former school, Martineau\u2019s Teagan joins her new school\u2019s boys rowing team as the coxswain after finding out there\u2019s no girls team.<\/p>\n

\n\tLike many YA romance shows, there\u2019s a core love triangle between Teagan and two boys on the rowing team, Sam Braun\u2019s Josh, the poor little rich boy type, and Kyle Clark\u2019s Cam, the down-to-earth local boy. The show\u2019s already been renewed for a second season.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just have a lot of respect for rowers and rowing,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s such a technical sport and it requires so much strength and resilience and coordination and communication.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhat sports did you play growing up? <\/p>\n

\n\tI played hockey for years. Hockey and gymnastics were the main sports that I did, but I also did figure skating. I did a few years playing volleyball, soccer a little bit. I grew up with a brother who\u2019s a year and a half older than me, so I think my dad just threw us into all of the same sports together. I loved playing sports growing up. It was such a huge part of my childhood. It teaches you so much about teamwork and communication. It\u2019s just so much fun to be a kid and to be super into sports.<\/p>\n

\n\tHockey shows are having a moment right now. The shows right now are focused on men, but hopefully there\u2019ll be one with women hockey players. Would you want to do one?<\/p>\n

\n\tYes. A female version of Heated Rivalry? I would be down. I\u2019ve said this for years: I would love to do a show that\u2019s related to hockey. I would love to do a show that\u2019s related to any sport, to be honest. Even if I haven\u2019t played it before, I love learning new skills for different roles. It\u2019s so much fun. It\u2019s a challenge to take on. It\u2019s very physical and mental, and I love that aspect of it.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMartineau on learning rowing for the Crew Girl: \u201cIt\u2019s such a technical sport and it requires so much strength and resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Tyler Twins\/Netflix<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat do you do now that you\u2019re into adulthood? Seems like you were in so many activites. It\u2019s hard to make time when you\u2019re working so much.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s harder. I live near the beaches of Toronto, so there\u2019s a lot of beach volleyball all summer long, but I was working on Bet season two all summer. My friends would text me every weekend to play recreationally on the beach. I would say, \u201cOh, I wish I could, but I can\u2019t. I\u2019m working.\u201d Because you\u2019re so right. It does get so busy, but I would love to join a club or something if I had free time.<\/p>\n

\n\tHave any of your previous roles taught you something about yourself in a surprising way?<\/p>\n

\n\tIt definitely teaches you a lot about confidence. The reason that I feel like quite confident person today is because all of the years that I\u2019ve spent working in this industry. It\u2019s a really huge game of believing in yourself. Maybe there\u2019s hundreds of people auditioning for one role and perhaps you do a hundred auditions and you only get one. It\u2019s really important to see the \u201crejection\u201d part of it as just redirect.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf you really love the craft and continue to work at it and believe in yourself, eventually somebody else will believe in you as well. Working in this industry over the years, it\u2019s made me really self-assured and made me believe in myself and made me realize, \u201cOh, I can do this job and I can handle this responsibility and I will show up and do my best job and I\u2019ll also have fun doing it.\u201d There\u2019s so many learning lessons over the years.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019re in New York for fashion week and press. How do you feel about doing stuff like that?<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s so fun. This is my first fashion week, so it\u2019s so cool and interesting. This is just the celebratory part that comes along with my job, so it\u2019s just fun. It\u2019s the end of summer. I\u2019ve been working all summer, so I am so grateful to be in New York for a week, just doing fun events. You get to meet a lot of wonderful people too. I went to the Tory Burch show, and it was beautiful. I have never really been to such a professional fashion show before, so it was like watching the ballet.<\/p>\n

\n\tDo you get nervous at these events? Or does that confidence we just talked about making you feel self-assured going into these as well?<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t think I really get nervous. I\u2019m just there thinking \u201cOK, let\u2019s navigate it.\u201d I don\u2019t really know what to expect, but I just feel lucky to be there.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMartineau on what she\u2019s learned as an actor: \u201cIt\u2019s really important to see the \u201crejection\u201d part of it as just redirect.\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Tyler Twins\/Netflix<\/p>\n

\n\tDo you consider yourself to be an extroverted person?<\/p>\n

\n\tI think as the older I\u2019ve gotten, the more extroverted I\u2019ve become because the work I do is so social. A huge part of why I love what I do is the collaborative part of it. I love traveling to somewhere I\u2019ve never really been before, living there for a few months, meeting 50-plus people and making really, really great friends. I would definitely say for sure I am an extrovert in that sense, but I think I\u2019m also a mixed introvert. When I have moments of quietness and when I\u2019m done work, I like my alone time or I just like very simple, quiet things.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat does that perfect day off away from people look like for you?<\/p>\n

\n\tIt means having maybe a nine-hour sleep, having a slow morning, eating a really yummy breakfast, hanging out with my cat, Brick, going on a walk. Maybe going on a walk with one of my girlfriends, relaxing, being outside, swimming in a lake, maybe doing an activity and maybe just going for a really nice dinner. I\u2019m such a foodie, something chill, something simple, something outside and calm.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat\u2019s your favorite kind of food to go and get out if you love to get food?<\/p>\n

\n\tEverything. I\u2019ve been eating a lot of Italian recently, but I love Japanese. I\u2019ve been eating a lot of Korean food lately. I actually have an Uber Eats order that I\u2019m looking at right now. I just ordered sushi for breakfast.<\/p>\n

\n\tI love that.<\/p>\n

\n\t[I like] everything under the sun. I got street tacos in New York the other night. I\u2019m not a picky eater at all. I love all food.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe love triangle in the show is interesting. There\u2019s a lot of back-and-forth, episode to episode. What was it like playing with that dynamic?<\/p>\n

\n\tI love the duality. Sam and Kyle are such professionals, and I\u2019m lucky to call them my friends in real life. Working with them was such a pleasure. I think we have such a great ensemble, and we\u2019re all really good friends in real life. We really bonded on this show. The group chat goes off almost every day, so having to do scenes with them, it was very natural, it flowed, and we were always there for each other.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat was the memorable experience you have from the set or filming?<\/p>\n

\n\tDefinitely rowing boot camp.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat did rowing boot camp entail exactly?<\/p>\n

\n\tI was shooting a sci-fi movie in Ithaca, New York, before I got to Victoria, [British Columbia]. I believe some of the boys were already in Victoria or in Vancouver training. I was doing separate training, so I was learning how to row on a single scull. When I got to Victoria, I was learning all the terminology, how an eights-boat works and how to become a coxswain, just as Teagan is also learning throughout the show. That was so much fun because we would just be out on the water all day long, hours long, under the sun. Getting a huge workout in, and all the boys were doing so great. They were trying so hard, and they looked great on the water too. It\u2019s a really cool experience to completely learn a new sport, not just by yourself, but with a group of people. It made us a team on the water, and that helped us become team players on a cast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a day of New York Fashion Week and press, actress Miku Martineau opted to spend the night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,306673,156,306674,1094,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-623833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-crew-girl","tag-entertainment","tag-miku-martineau","tag-netflix","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}