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Lizzie McGuire star Lalaine is recounting the increase and slide of Disney Channel in a new audiobook.
According to Folks, Lalaine, 37, who starred as Miranda Sanchez in Lizzie McGuire from 2001 to 2004, will narrate the audiobook for journalist Ashley Spencer’s new guide, Disney Large: The Untold Story of the Increase and Slide of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire.
The novel, which is established to launch on September 24, discusses how the community reinvented itself into a “powerhouse tween network” soon after allowing the stars of their Mickey Mouse Club revival – Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling and extra – slip via their fingertips. In accordance to the book’s description, Disney Significant will aspect hundreds of interviews with former Disney executives, creatives and stars.
“It’s a enjoyment to be a portion of Disney High’s journey into the audiobook globe,” Lalaine explained to People on Thursday, June 20. “I’m honored to narrate this for Ashley and I’m on the lookout ahead to sharing these tales with lovers in a whole new way.”
Yet another Disney Channel results tale! Hilary Duff’s breakout position on Lizzie McGuire yielded a long time of achievement for the actress that proceeds nowadays, whilst her costars selected a little bit distinctive paths. The sitcom — starring Duff (Lizzie McGuire), Lalaine (Miranda Sanchez), Adam Lamberg (Gordo), Jake Thomas (Matt McGuire), Hallie Todd (Jo McGuire) and Robert Carradine (Sam McGuire) — aired […]
Soon after ending her position as Hilary Duff’s most effective good friend in Lizzie McGuire, Lalaine went onto star in motion pictures these types of as 2005’s Her Most effective Move, 2009’s Royal Destroy, 2010’s Uncomplicated A and 2020’s Definition Make sure you. She also unveiled an EP, Haunted, in 2004.
While Lizzie McGuire finished in 2004, two episodes of a reboot have been filmed in 2020 just before Disney canceled the present due to described issues with the material.
“She experienced to be 30 years old accomplishing 30-calendar year-outdated issues,” Duff, 36, told Women’s Well being in 2022 of the failed reboot. “She did not need to have to be performing bong rips and possessing just one-night stands all the time, but it had to be authentic. I think [the network] obtained spooked.”
In January, writer Jonathan Hurwitz reviewed the reboot — and what the storyline was planned to be for Lalaine’s Miranda.
“We talked a lot about adult Miranda and her getting a musician was component of the discussion, so an individual who was on tour with a band,” Hurwitz, 46, explained in a TikTok video clip at the time. “Her being queer was also component of the dialogue, so you probable would have achieved the girl that she was in a romantic relationship with.”
Hurwitz went on to explain that he was doubtful about Lalaine’s involvement in the canceled challenge.
“I genuinely really don’t know if casting ever reached out to her,” he shared. “All I do know is that her supervisor and I happened to be at the exact same party and he came up to me and mentioned that Lalaine was open up to being associated, so I’m hopeful that we could have experienced her concerned.”
Whilst Lalaine has moved on from Disney Channel for the most component, in 2019, she reflected on developing up as a individual of colour in an field that she claims “forced” her to appear extra “white.”
“Most of my life growing up I was forced to glance as ‘white’ as feasible. These times I battle to discover photographs where by I look as ethnic as possible,” she shared in an Instagram submit.
Clayton Snyder, who played Ethan Craft on the Disney Channel series, responded to Lalaine’s statements in the remark part.
“You were the very first particular person to open my eyes to the job of race in casting,” he wrote. “When I questioned why you did not use your previous name. Reported it was too Hispanic. Produced me sad.”
