Lucy Hale could also be finest referred to as the de-facto chief in Fairly Little Liars, however in an alternate actuality she may need been enmeshed in a double life because the protagonist in Disney‘s Hannah Montana. The actress mentioned the auditioning course of for the function, which ultimately went to Miley Cyrus, solidified her need to be within the leisure business.
In a latest installment of BuzzFeed’s The Pet Interview, Hale revealed a collection of roles she auditioned for that could be stunning for viewers, together with Pitch Good, Hairspray, Hannah Montana, 50 Shades of Gray and The Substance.
“Oh my gosh, so many,” she mentioned. “I really feel like, as a result of I’ve lived in L.A. virtually 20 years, everybody who will get the function is at all times, it’s meant to be their factor, however for each ‘sure’ to an audition, there’s like a lineup of 200 that you just heard a ‘no’ for, so I ought to in all probability return like in journals and have a look at all of the issues I’ve auditioned for.”
When requested which function she tried for within the in style kids’s sitcom, which ran from 2006 to 2011 and solidified Cyrus as a teen star, Hale confirmed it was for the lead, including that she was 14 and nonetheless residing in her house state of Tennessee on the time.
“It was a pair years earlier than they’d solid Miley in it,” she defined. “I bear in mind the audition. It was a taped audition in Tennessee. It was the audition that made me wish to be an actress. I do not forget that vividly, it was very cool.”
In a while within the interview, the F*** Marry Kill star touched on her first appearing job in one other kids’s sitcom staple: as one among Drake’s dates in Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh on the age of 15.
“I used to be very nervous. Within the scene, Drake [Bell]’s character, he’s like, ‘What’s your title?’ And I’m going, ‘Hazel!’ And he goes, ‘Just like the nut?’ And I’m going, ‘uh-huh!’ And that’s it. Groundbreaking. My profession skyrocketed since then, so, it’s all due to that,” she joked.