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.
“I knew what Hanna was going to do and I used to be like, ‘Do we actually desire a 12-year-old doing these issues?'” King recalled in an interview with Variety. “But in addition, they will solely work a certain quantity of hours below the age of 16. In order that’s after we simply stated she’s Alison. She learn with a number of of the women 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 most important actors forged, with King revealing to Variety, “I bear in mind her coming in for her audition and she or he was in tears as a result of she was on a present known as Eastwick and she or he had simply came upon it was canceled, and so she came visiting 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 forged and apart from Alison, we didn’t have a blonde within the present. We could not discover the best particular person and she or he got here in…there’s simply one thing magical that occurs along with her and the best way the digital camera captures her and people eyes. All of us knew within the room that we discovered our Hanna.”