8. Sasha Pieterse, who would go on to play Alison DiLaurentis, was this shut to touchdown the function 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 need a 12-year-old doing these issues?'” King recalled in an interview with Variety. “But in addition, they will solely work a specific amount of hours beneath the age of 16. In order that’s once we simply stated she’s Alison. She learn with a number of 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 foremost actors forged, 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 discovered it was canceled, and so she came visiting to this audition.”
King continued, “We knew we needed a blonde for this function as a result of it was one of many final roles to forged and aside from Alison, we didn’t have a blonde within the present. We could not discover the appropriate particular person and he or she got here in…there’s simply one thing magical that occurs together with her and the way in which the digital camera captures her and people eyes. All of us knew within the room that we discovered our Hanna.”