It was a set to remember.
Mandy Moore revealed Macaulay Culkin got her into underage drinking while filming the 2004 teen comedy “Saved.”
Production on the movie — which followed a group of teenagers at a Christian high school — took place in Vancouver in 2003 where the legal drinking age is 19.
“I do remember a little bit of underage drinking,” Moore confessed while on Thursday’s episode of the “Shut Up Evan” podcast. “As it happened, I was like, ‘Look, I didn’t go to high school.’ I was 18.”
Since Culkin was the oldest in the group — which included co-stars Jena Malone, Patrick Fugit and Eva Amurri — and was able to legally drink in Canada, he “introduced” them to “a White Russian.”
“I was like, ‘Milk and alcohol? This is made for me,” Moore recalled. “I love this! This is like ice cream, this is fantastic!’”
At the time of filming, the actress was fresh off of 2001’s “Princess Diaries” and 2002’s “A Walk to Remember.
“I was like, ‘This will be a fun,’” Moore recalled thinking.
“And the fact that I’d had so much fun doing both of those films, namely ‘Princess Diaries,’ because it was with a lot of other young people — I was like, ‘Oh, this is like summer camp!’”
Once on the set of “Saved,” Moore instantly bonded with her fellow castmates.
“I felt like a cool kid,” the “This is Us” alum gushed. “I was like, ‘Oh, I get to sit at the cool kids table with these young Hollywood kids that are making really cool choices, and they’re a part of really great films.”
Despite some drinking, Moore insisted that the young stars were well-behaved.
“I distinctly remember the sweet, innocent — like, we would take giant marshmallows and throw them at people off the balcony,” she detailed. “We were kids! We weren’t really getting up to no good.”
Moore called working on “Saved” a “crazy, crazy life-changing experience.”
“I just loved the script and the character, and I thought it was really irreverent and funny, and also like gonna move the needle,” she mused.
The part of self-righteous Hilary Faye Stockard was also unlike any role Moore had done before.
The “Candy” artist remembers hoping it would “open up a door to other projects,” and allow people to see her “in a different light.”
Moore went on to appear in a series of different genres, including rom-coms, horror and adventure.
The icon also starred in the hit NBC drama “This Is Us” for six seasons from 2016 to 2022.
While on the series, Moore received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2017 and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2019.
In 2018 and 2019, Moore and the rest of the cast — which included Milo Ventimiglia, Chrissy Metz, Sterling K. Brown and Justin Hartley — took home the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
