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8. Sasha Pieterse, who would go on to play Alison DiLaurentis, was this shut to touchdown the position of Hanna earlier than producers found she was solely 12 years previous.Â
“I knew what Hanna was going to do and I used to be like, ‘Do we actually need a 12-year-old doing these issues?'” King recalled in an interview with Variety. “But additionally, they will solely work a specific amount of hours below the age of 16. In order that’s after we simply stated she’s Alison. She learn with just a few of the ladies as Alison, she was a number of years youthful than all of them, however she scared the hell out of everybody in a great way.”
9. Ashley Benson was the final of the 4 major actors solid, with King revealing to Variety, “I bear in mind her coming in for her audition and he or she was in tears as a result of she was on a present referred to as Eastwick and he or she had simply came upon it was canceled, and so she came to visit to this audition.”
King continued, “We knew we needed a blonde for this position as a result of it was one of many final roles to solid and aside from Alison, we didn’t have a blonde within the present. We could not discover the suitable individual and he or she got here in…there’s simply one thing magical that occurs together with her and the way in which the digicam captures her and people eyes. All of us knew within the room that we discovered our Hanna.”