If you don't know who Cheer’s Jerry Harris and La’Darius Marshall are by now, you’ve probably been living under a pom-pom.

A pop culture juggernaut, Netflix’s addictive docuseries—about the drama of the Navarro College competitive cheerleading squad as they prepare for the Daytona Beach national championships—turned Harris and Marshall into celebrities overnight. Even Hollywood’s biggest stars want a piece.

La'Darius Marshall (left) and Jerry Harris.

Marshall and Harris appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in early February, and soon after the talk-show host enlisted Harris to conduct red-carpet interviews at the Oscars, where the likes of Brad Pitt, Kathy Bates, and Laura Dern stanned him hard. Harris, coach Monica Aldama, and other Navarro team members also joined Oprah for a little mat talk in Dallas during the 2020 Vision WW Tour this month.

Harris, who graduates in May, is now repped by influencer management company Digital Brand Architects and parent agency UTA, while both he and Marshall are on personalized celebrity shout-out video service Cameo. But despite their newfound fame, the pair are keeping their squad goals grounded and are back home in Texas focusing on their championship competition this April. Between clasps, stunts, and pyramids, they took time out to chat with NewNowNext about making the series, bizarre fan requests, and their various starry run-ins since the show took America by storm.

Harris, Marshall, and the Cheer squad on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

While shooting Cheer, was there anything you initially intended to keep off camera?

La’Darius Marshall: I didn’t really like being shot. I honestly felt over it. I didn’t want to reveal everything about my family. But in the long run I had to realize that it’s your story, and people need to know your truth in order to truly know whatever you’re going through.

Jerry Harris: I don’t think I really had an expectation of how it would come out because it was so new to all of us. They got into the rhythm and flow and asked us questions, and if we weren’t comfortable with answering, we wouldn’t have to.

What do you think about how the show turned out?

LM: When I watched the final product I was like, Wow. We weren’t just cheerleading. I didn’t realize they would go that deep into my life. It was very different.

JH: None of us were expecting it to get this big. We just expected it to be something big in the cheer community. Then we saw that celebrities started watching it, and now we have a whole lot of people who love the show.

La'Darius Marshall in Cheer.

What about competitive cheerleading are you really glad Cheer illuminated?

LM: The inclusiveness of everything. All people are welcome. Color, gender, whatever. It doesn’t matter. I just love it.

So there’s no evil, homophobic, racist, all-white cheer team out there?

LM: That’s what everybody says cheer athletics are like, but it's not at all like that. It’s the most inclusive sport.

JH: The cheer community is very small, so basically everyone knows everyone, and if there was [a team like that], people would get ridiculed for it.

Although you’re both openly gay, La’Darius is the only Navarro team member to explicitly discuss his sexuality in the show, and it’s been hailed as a jolt of positive LGBTQ representation. Did being queer come up with any of the other members?

LM: Yeah. I was just the one who was most open about it. I live an open life, but there are others who definitely are gay and showed they were gay.

JH: I’m pretty sure it came up [with me], but I don’t think it was the big storyline for me, so that’s why that probably didn’t get shown. But I’m very happy that it's out there. I love anything positive that’s thrown into the world, whether for the LGBTQ community or anyone else.

What’s it like being back at Navarro?

LM: I feel so much better. I feel like watching myself, checking myself, and reflecting on how my year has made me a much better person and cheerleader. This year has been so much fun and different!

JH: A few of us traveled, but now we’re back to practice and focusing on our main goal, which is Daytona. It’s a little different but also feels exactly the same because of how much we’re practicing—just as we would if we weren’t doing anything else.

Is competing different now that the team is so well known?

JH: I find everybody is working hard to try to beat us because of our name and reputation, so the pressure is definitely going to be more than in the past. More people will be watching our big competition—but it’ll be fine at the end of the day.

Marshall and Andy Cohen.

Celebs love you now! How was meeting Andy Cohen, La’Darius?

LM: I was starstruck. I spent most of my life watching him and all of his Bravo shows like Real Housewives. We didn’t have that much time because he was too busy, but I made sure I gave him a hug!

Who else is Team La’Darius?

LM: Oh my goodness. Charli XCX and Jenna Dewan. I went live [on Instagram] one day and Jenna’s husband was messaging in the comments. I didn’t know who that was, but I got a video request, so I got on and it was her and him, and obviously she’s pregnant, and I was shook! I was like, "Girl, I watched you on Step Up!"

Harris at the 2020 Oscars.

Who all did you meet on Oscars night, Jerry? Anyone ask for some mat talk in private?

JH: I met a lot of people at the Vanity Fair after-party. Paula Abdul! Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade wanted to see me, but we didn’t get around to it because our schedules didn’t line up. But I would love to meet Beyoncé. That would be so much fun. I would love to meet Nicki Minaj, too.

You’re both on Cameo. Do the shout-out requests ever get a bit unusual?

JH: Kind of. Someone asked me to give motivation as they go into labor. Basically, mat talk them while they’re in labor. And the other day, someone said, "My friend just went through a breakup. Tell her she don’t need no man." Something like that. It was hilarious.

You don’t seem to wear a shirt in your Cameo sample clips, La’Darius. Is that because it’s requested, or are you just doing you?

LM: It’s normally because I record mine late at night after practice. That’s why. Yeah. [Laughs]

What’s your best mat-talk advice for a young LGBTQ person who's thinking of trying competitive cheer?

JH: Chase your dream. If there’s something you really want to do, do it. You only live once, so don’t let anything get in the way of what you really want. It’s your life—you’ve got to live it the way you want to.