Lucy Hale Says She Auditioned for Miley Cyrus' Part in 'Hannah Montana': 'It Was Very Cool'

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15-03-2025

To promote her newest film F*** Marry Kill, Lucy Hale joined Buzzfeed for 'The Puppy Interview,' where she revealed one of her lesser-known auditions for a popular 2000s Disney show.
When asked what role people would be surprised to find out she auditioned for, Hale, most known for her role in the TV series Pretty Little Liars, responded, 'Oh my gosh, I've auditioned for Pitch Perfect, Hairspray, Hannah Montana, 50 Shades of Grey, The Substance."
'Oh my gosh, so many," she shared. "I feel like, because I've lived in L.A. almost 20 years, everyone who gets the role is always, it's meant to be their thing, but for every 'yes' to an audition, there's like a lineup of 200 that you heard a 'no' for. I should probably go back like in journals and look at all the things I've auditioned for.'
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Hale confirmed that she auditioned for Miley Cyrus' leading role of Hannah Montana, which aired from 2006-2010.
'When I still lived in Tennessee and I was 14 at the time, so this would have been, 'math, math' 21 years ago, and it was a couple years before they had cast Miley in it.'
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'I remember the audition' Hale continued, 'It was a taped audition in Tennessee. It was the audition that like made me want to be an actress. I remember that vividly, it was very cool.'
The children's show Hale did appear on came up in conversation, though, when Hale revealed that her first ever acting role was on Nickelodeon's early-2000s show Drake and Josh.
'I had one word on Drake and Josh on Nickelodeon, and I was 15. And I was wearing an orange shirt and like a blue terrycloth skirt. I was very nervous. In the scene, Drake [Bell]'s character, he was like, 'What's your name?' And I go, 'Hazel!' And he goes, 'Like the nut?' And I go, 'uh-huh!' '
'And that's it. Groundbreaking. My career skyrocketed since then, so, it's all because of that' she joked.
In the interview, Hale also acknowledged that she continues to stay in touch with the cast of Pretty Little Liars, which ended in 2017.
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'We do have a big group chat with the whole cast of PLL,' Hale said. ' It's everyone, I mean, I think there's like 20 people in it. We're all kind of scattered around and doing different things, and like everyone has kids, and so we don't see each other maybe as often as we'd like to, but we've been toying around with the idea the last couple years of having a big reunion.'
"I ran into Sasha and Ashley the other night," Hale continued, "(I) didn't know they were going to be there. It's just so nice to see familiar faces."
F*** Marry Kill, Hale's newest film, is out now in select theaters and on digital.
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