skatergator777
08-28-2008, 07:33 PM
This article made me laugh about miley on sert, and its very sweet.
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Mt. Juliet resident Alita Sparks spent three days on the set recently as an extra but ended up as Miley Cyrus' stand-in. She wanted to audition because her 5-year-old daughter, Colby, is a big Hannah Montana fan. But she also refused to stand in line at auditions.
After seeing a newspaper story about extras still being needed after the casting call, Sparks submitted her profile and photo along with those of eight co-workers she was able to talk into it. Six of them got called back.
The set didn't have the feel of Hollywood at all — no running water and lots of standing around and waiting, Sparks said. In fact, she was looking for some shade on set when a member of the production team tracked her down.
"I thought they just wanted me to do a walking scene, but they told me they needed me to be a stand-in for an inside scene for her because her normal stand-in was tied up doing something. I was just happy to be inside and out of the sunshine for the first time in three days," she said.
"I spent the next hour or so sitting in a chair staring at (an actor from the movie) and attempting not to move or speak. He told me when I came in it would be awkward because we would have to stare at each other for a while. He was right."
Extras were told they could not have any contact with the actors, something Sparks said she initially took offense at, "but I understood the poor girl probably gets tired of being harassed. By Friday, there was kind of a 'Yeah, I've seen her' feeling," she said.
"Just from watching her for three days, she seems like any other 15-year-old girl, kind of goofy, silly and a big cut-up. When she was on set, everyone knew because she was always laughing," Sparks added.
Sparks said she doesn't mind her daughter watching Hannah Montana on TV and sometimes watches it with her.
The moms' opinions on Cyrus' recent photo shoot with Vanity Fair differ. The teen was photographed by Annie Leibovitz looking provocatively over her right shoulder, her back nude.
"It didn't faze me at all. Nothing was showing. I think Vanity Fair took advantage of her," Sullivan said.
Sparks thinks the teen may have been trying to get attention.
"Why else would she take her clothes off? I do not think she did it to try to be controversial, but if you think back, every girl wanted to seem like she was older and sexier when she was a teenager," she said.
"I don't think it was a poor decision as much as a normal decision made in front of the entire country."
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Mt. Juliet resident Alita Sparks spent three days on the set recently as an extra but ended up as Miley Cyrus' stand-in. She wanted to audition because her 5-year-old daughter, Colby, is a big Hannah Montana fan. But she also refused to stand in line at auditions.
After seeing a newspaper story about extras still being needed after the casting call, Sparks submitted her profile and photo along with those of eight co-workers she was able to talk into it. Six of them got called back.
The set didn't have the feel of Hollywood at all — no running water and lots of standing around and waiting, Sparks said. In fact, she was looking for some shade on set when a member of the production team tracked her down.
"I thought they just wanted me to do a walking scene, but they told me they needed me to be a stand-in for an inside scene for her because her normal stand-in was tied up doing something. I was just happy to be inside and out of the sunshine for the first time in three days," she said.
"I spent the next hour or so sitting in a chair staring at (an actor from the movie) and attempting not to move or speak. He told me when I came in it would be awkward because we would have to stare at each other for a while. He was right."
Extras were told they could not have any contact with the actors, something Sparks said she initially took offense at, "but I understood the poor girl probably gets tired of being harassed. By Friday, there was kind of a 'Yeah, I've seen her' feeling," she said.
"Just from watching her for three days, she seems like any other 15-year-old girl, kind of goofy, silly and a big cut-up. When she was on set, everyone knew because she was always laughing," Sparks added.
Sparks said she doesn't mind her daughter watching Hannah Montana on TV and sometimes watches it with her.
The moms' opinions on Cyrus' recent photo shoot with Vanity Fair differ. The teen was photographed by Annie Leibovitz looking provocatively over her right shoulder, her back nude.
"It didn't faze me at all. Nothing was showing. I think Vanity Fair took advantage of her," Sullivan said.
Sparks thinks the teen may have been trying to get attention.
"Why else would she take her clothes off? I do not think she did it to try to be controversial, but if you think back, every girl wanted to seem like she was older and sexier when she was a teenager," she said.
"I don't think it was a poor decision as much as a normal decision made in front of the entire country."