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DiLaurentis, was this shut to touchdown the position of Hanna earlier than producers found she was solely 12 years outdated.
“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 Selection. “But in addition, they will solely work a specific amount of hours beneath the age of 16. In order that’s after we simply mentioned she’s Alison. She learn with a couple 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 Selection, “I keep 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 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 forged and apart from Alison, we didn’t have a blonde within the present. We could not discover the proper particular person and she or he got here in…there’s simply one thing magical that occurs along 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.”
