8. Sasha Pieterse, who would go on to engage in Alison DiLaurentis, was this close to landing the function of Hanna right before producers uncovered she was only 12 yrs outdated.
“I realized what Hanna was going to do and I was like, ‘Do we definitely want a 12-year-old undertaking these matters?'” King recalled in an interview with Selection. “But also, they can only perform a sure amount of hours underneath the age of 16. So which is when we just claimed she’s Alison. She study with a couple of of the women as Alison, she was a number of decades younger than all of them, but she scared the hell out of everyone in a great way.”
9. Ashley Benson was the very last of the four principal actors solid, with King revealing to Selection, “I try to remember her coming in for her audition and she was in tears for the reason that she was on a demonstrate called Eastwick and she experienced just found out it was canceled, and so she arrived over to this audition.”
King ongoing, “We understood we desired a blonde for this part simply because it was one particular of the past roles to cast and other than Alison, we did not have a blonde in the clearly show. We could not discover the suitable man or woman and she arrived in … you can find just anything magical that takes place with her and the way the digicam captures her and those eyes. We all knew in the room that we observed our Hanna.”
