Katie Stevens opens up about her amazing new show Faking It in this JJJ interview!
The 21-year-old American Idol alum stars alongside Rita Volk, Michael Willett, Gregg Sulkin, and Bailey Buntain in the MTV comedy about two best friends who love each other � in slightly different ways.
After numerous failed attempts to become popular, the girls are mistakenly outed as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by their newfound fame, Karma (Stevens) and Amy (Volk) decide to keep up their romantic ruse.
Faking It premieres on TONIGHT, April 22 @ 10:30PM ET/PT on MTV!
JustJaredJr: Hi Katie! We loved you on American Idol. You’re an amazing singer. Have you always been interested in acting too?
Katie Stevens: Growing up, I did theater and all that fun stuff. Acting was always something I was interested in. I just so happened to do Idol first to get me out here. And then once I was out here, I was like, “I never tried to television and film side of things.” And being in L.A., what better place to do that. So I met with my agency and their acting department, and basically said, “I want to do this and I want to put the work in.” I started taking classes and auditioning, and here we are.
JJJ: Did you originally audition for Karma or another part?
KS: It was funny and I didn’t find this out until afterward, but they had already seen everybody for Karma and had already chosen people to go in for a test. And the casting director just felt like she hadn’t seen everybody. So she went back through her emails that she missed, and she skipped over one email with three girls faces in it, and one of them was mine. She just happened to point to me and say, “Oh, I haven’t seen her yet.” I was the last girl they saw for Karma. And then I went into the test, and Rita, who plays my best friend, she was going out for Karma at the time. She and I basically said, “Let’s not do this whole bitchy audition room thing. If you get it, you are completely different from me. It’s not going to be a reflection on my acting talent.” And so in the test they asked her to read for Amy and we did a chemistry test. It worked out perfectly.
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