Here’s everything we know about the series so far: Janel knew about the spinoff about a year before Pretty Little Liars ended, and Sofia didn’t actually audition to play her character, Ava.
Sofia Carson keeps it classic while arriving at the 2019 TCA Winter Press Tour event held at The Langham Huntington Hotel on Tuesday (February 5) in Pasadena, Calif.
“From the pilot of Pretty Little Liars and on, we treat our characters as adults because they are,” Marlene shared on the Youth Movement panel about the show representing real teens. “We treat them like adults because they are dealing with very grown up problems.”
Sasha added, “That’s part of the reason why our viewers became attached. They saw themselves in us.”
The 25-year-old and 23-year-old Fosters actresses attended the Youth Movement panel during the Freeform segment of the 2019 Winter TCA Press Tour on Tuesday morning (February 5) at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena, Calif.
The panel was part of the network’s “continued commitment to inclusivity and authentic storytelling.”
“At Freeform, our shows are uncompromising and bullish on what’s possible when young adults are empowered to be themselves and share their voice about the things that define them and their generation,” said president Tom Ascheim.
On the same day, it was announced that Grown-ish is being picked up for a third season.
The 22-year-old actress returns as Alison DeLaurentis in the new series, which also brings back Janel Parrish as Mona VanderWaal.
The new show, a spinoff of Pretty Little Liars, centers on the perfect town of Beacon Heights…but nothing in Beacon Heights is as it appears to be. The stress of needing to be perfect leads to the town’s first murder. Behind every Perfectionist is a secret, a lie and a needed alibi.
The cast includes Sydney Park as Caitlin, a senator’s daughter with political aspirations of her own, Eli Brown as Dylan, a talented cellist whose love of music is matched only by his love for his boyfriend, Hayley Erin in a mystery role, with Sofia Carson as Ava, a blogger and coder with designs on a career in fashion.
Chris Mason is as Nolan, a privileged pretty boy who manipulates others into doing his bidding, Kelly Rutherford as Claire Hotchkiss, a calculating businesswoman and mother who basically runs the town and Graeme Thomas King is Jeremy, a handsome, “charming and witty” Brit with more abs than you can count with just your fingers, Jeremy is also an intelligent scientist working for Beacon Heights’ prestigious Hotchkiss Technologies.
Janel Parrish gets into the Halloween spirit while visiting Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights on Thursday night (October 4) in Universal City, Calif.
“Had a scary good time at @HorrorNights @UniStudios 😱 #universalHHN,” Janel wrote on Twitter.
Janel recently joined her Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists co-star Sasha Pieterse in a new anti-bullying PSA for Disney/ABC’s #ChooseKindness campaign. Check it out below!
Executive producer and showrunner Marlene King promises that fans will get an answer straight away when the series premieres.
“You learn in the pilot why Alison is there, and what’s going on with her and Emily,” she shared with TVLine.
She adds that, “We left her very happy with Emily and the twins, so to justify why she would leave that behind to come to Beacon Heights was worthy of much more conversation.”
Lucy Hale, Janel Parrish, and Sofia Carson were just three of the stars who sent their congrats to the couple on social media after they said “I Do” over the weekend.
“The most beautiful. Wishing you a lifetime of love my beautiful sash,” Sofia wrote on Twitter just moments after hearing.
Sasha later shared a 360 view of her gorgeous wedding gown on Instagram, writing, “A few days ago I married the man of my dreams at a Castile in a faraway land in front of my closest friends and family…swoon. I apologize in advance for the amount of wedding and honeymoon documentation to follow.”
