Tonight at 8p on ABC Family the highly anticipated Pretty Little Liars is premiering and Lucy Hale talked to me about the show everyone will be texting their friends about after they watch it! PLL is based on the books about four estranged best friends who are reunited one year after their best friend and queen bee of the group, Alison, goes missing – only to discover they’re receiving messages from an anonymous “A” who knows all their secrets. The show reminds me of Dawson’s Creek mixed with I Know What You Did Last Summer and the combination equals one amazing show. I can’t wait to watch the mystery play out tonight and every Tuesday at 8p!
Lucy Hale plays Aria whose life was normal before Alison went missing. She had a loving family and good friends, but then in one night she finds out her father is having affair, her best friend goes missing and she is uprooted to Iceland for the year. She comes back home and meets a stranger, who she will have a hot steamy scene with, and the next day they find out they will be seeing each other every day and not in the way they were expecting.
I recently sat down with the actress, who I missed having on TV since The CW unfairly cancelled Privileged, and she told me about Aria and why she likes playing her so much. She describes her character as, “Aria, out of the four girls, is probably the most different. She has sort of figured out herself, you know at 16 years old. So it is pretty awesome to play someone so mature, (she) just has different interests. She falls for her English teacher which causes a little trouble. Her whole family life is up in smoke because her dad (Chad Lowe) is cheating on her mom (Holly Marie Combs), so she got a lot issues but for the most part she is pretty put together.” Considering all of that, she really is and you will have to watch to see how much so.
So as you can see her parents are played by TV veterans Chad Lowe and Holly Marie Combs. She told me that they weren’t cast until right before they started filming the show, and she is loving having them play her TV parents. So I had to ask her if she was a fan of Charmed before the show and you will have to watch the interview to find out. She also shared with me that everyone has a crush on Holly because they were all such fans of Piper Halliwell.
And talking about crushes, I was wondering if she wanted to date a character closer to age or does she like dating someone older on the show, and she responded by saying, “I like it! I like the storyline of me and the teacher, it is naughty.” So I asked if she likes playing naughty and she said, “Yeah because I never have. I am usually the sweet girl, so it is fun to do something bad.” And starting tonight at 8p, you can see just how good she is playing someone bad on ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars.
Can I tell you I have seen her in Privileged, Sorority Wars and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 to name a few, and I think this might be her just role yet! BTW I know you were wondering, she is just as adorable in person as she is on the screen.
Finally make sure to follow Lucy Hale on Twitter, for updates on her and the show!
