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Peyton Elizabeth Lee may have nailed her Andi Mack audition, but she still had to go through many callbacks!

The 15-year-old actress had only two guest star appearances on her resume when she tried out for the Disney Channel show, but was so natural at portraying the character.

Even though creator Terri Minsky felt that Peyton was definitely Andi Mack, she still had to go through the whole casting process with Disney because she had such little experience.

“Out of nowhere, there was Peyton Elizabeth Lee. She didn’t have a reel; she had only been acting professionally for a few months with two guest spots on her résumé,” Terri told Backstage. “When Peyton read my dialogue, it didn’t just sound natural, it sounded so real that I felt like I was meeting my own character.”

“But before Disney would hire her, they had to rule everyone else out, which meant Peyton had to audition again and again and again, each time competing with a new crop of candidates,” she continued. “The final time, the network executives asked her to do a cold reading of the scene where Andi finds out her sister is actually her mother. They gave her a half hour to prepare. She came back in five minutes and killed it. She was only 11 years old.”

“I once asked Peyton how long she could see herself playing Andi. She looked at me like I was crazy: ‘Forever,’ she said, as if it was obvious she was the one,” Terri added.

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Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Sofia Wylie and Joshua Rush hug it out in this sweet pic from the Andi Mack finale celebration at Neuehouse in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (July 24).

The three stars of the Disney Channel series were joined by Emily Skinner, Luke Mullen, Lauren Tom, Trent Garrett, Lilan Bowden and Raquel Justice to celebrate the groundbreaking series.

Creator Terri Minsky told Variety a bit about the series finale, which airs tomorrow, July 26th.

“I didn’t want to end with a cliffhanger. I believe people will miss Andi and her friends and her family,” she shared. “To me, the finale is a way for them to tell our audience, ‘We’ll miss you, too, but you don’t have to worry about us: We’ll be fine.’”

The Paper Crane Project, created by fans, was on display at the event. It’s made of 1000 paper cranes, categorized and separated into strands of 10, each with a handwritten message from viewers around the world who expressed their appreciation for the series and its commitment to thoughtful, inclusive and entertaining stories that reflect their lives.

Peyton Elizabeth Lee was just the cutest thing at her Andi Mack audition!

Disney shared some footage from her audition for the hit series, which is ending after three seasons this week, in a flashback video.

In the unearthed footage, you can see Peyton reciting some of Andi’s iconic lines from the show, and being insistent of how she’s not a singer at all.

“I’m really bad at singing,” Peyton says. “In the car, my dad will be like ‘quiet down’.”

Check out her audition below, plus more footage from behind-the-scenes on Andi Mack!

Peyton Elizabeth Lee and her Andi Mack mom Lilan Bowden share a very special bond!

Lilan recently opened up about their relationship, and what Peyton did this past Mother’s Day.

“The cutest thing is during the most recent Mother’s Day she sent me a message, ‘Happy Mother’s Day to my fake mother. I miss you, and I love you more than you’ll ever know.’ I’m going to get teary-eyed. I didn’t know that when I signed up for a TV show, I’d end up with a new family member, but we are clearly friends for life,” she told Parade magazine.

“My connection to her came on so organically where I just feel like this was somebody that I have to protect and someone I feel so close and fond of, and I want her to do well, and I’m going to help guide her in any way I can,” Lilan continued. “Peyton is representative of a new generation that has self-confidence in her identity in a way that I don’t know if I had coming up as an actor. She is a critical thinker, and she knows very much what she stands for and this started at an early age. So, that’s really incredible to see.”

Andi Mack is currently airing it’s final episodes Fridays on Disney Channel. The show will end with the series finale on Friday, July 26th.

Peyton Elizabeth Lee is showing her LGBTQ+ pride!

The 15-year-old Andi Mack actress attended the Pride Toronto Festival with friends this month and posted pictures from the event on Instagram Wednesday (June 26).

Peyton tagged several fans in her post, including Skylar Astin, Olivia Deeble, Maddie Lomax, Noah Lomax, and Faly Rakotohavana.

“FEELING PROUD ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜,” Peyton wrote on Instagram.

Peyton also shared a series of several pictures of herself and her friends celebrating at the festival.

See how Peyton Elizabeth Lee’s Andi Mack story line will wrap up here!

Andi Mack‘s final episodes are coming up soon and some of the cast is opening up about what to expect.

Stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Lilan Bowden, and Joshua Rush dished that storylines will come to a close, and they also reflected back on working on such an impactful show.

“There are so many wonderful storylines that wrap up in such a beautiful way—and I’m talking visually as well as emotionally,” Lilan told D23. “So, I can’t wait for fans to experience that.”

“I’m excited for fans to get to imagine a future for the characters,” Joshua added. “The way the show ends is really wonderful in that Cyrus, Andi, Buffy, Jonah, Bex, and Cece are going to keep living in their own world. I’m really excited for fans to see that.”

Peyton was thankful for the different representations featured on the program. “I think it’s really important that everyone is represented in the media,” she said. “Seeing someone who looks like you or someone you connect with onscreen is very important.”

“Being able to play this gay character has been absolutely incredible. It’s something a lot of older people did not have when they were growing up,” Joshua added. “And for these kids out there who are just having that realization in their own minds and are maybe internalizing it, I’m excited to give them an opportunity to see themselves portrayed. The other side of it is Cyrus being a Jewish character—a strong Jewish character. Because for me, when I grew up, Passover, or Pesach, was ‘Jewish Easter,’ and Chanukah was ‘Jewish Christmas.’ And it’s great to have a character out there who shows that Judaism is its own thing and that we are our own people.”

“It’s wonderful to be on a show that normalizes so many things we don’t see a lot of represented in the media,” Lilan chimed in. “We have the gay storyline, we have an Asian American family on TV, and the show is led by the three female characters. And on top of that, we have learning disabilities, we have a deaf character… Bex is a teen mom! For us to show so many different kinds of issues that real children and families face is so meaningful, because I can tell when I talk to our fans that it means everything to see themselves represented on TV.”

Andi Mack begins airing it’s final episodes THIS Friday (June 21) with the series finale set for July 26th.

Congrats to Peyton Elizabeth Lee!

The 14-year-old actress is slated to star in Disney+’s first original movie, Secret Society of Second Born Royals.

The movie will center on Sam (Lee), a rebellious princess second in line to the throne of the kingdom of Illyria. Just as Sam’s disinterest in the royal way of life is at an all-time high, she is stunned to learn that she has superpowers and belongs to a secret society with a longstanding tradition of covertly keeping the peace throughout the kingdom.

Sam’s adventures at a top-secret training program for a new class of second born royals tasked with saving the world.

Also starring in the flick are Skylar Astin as James, Elodie Yung as Queen Catherine, Ashley Liao as Princess Eleanor, Noah Lomax as Mike, Faly Rakotohavana as Prince Matteo, Isabella Blake Thomas as Princess January, Olivia Deeble as Princess Roxana and Niles Fitch as Prince Tuma.

Secret Society of Second Born Royals will begin production this month in Toronto.