Olivia Holt reflects on her journey from Disney Channel star to leading lady in slasher films, highlighting the invaluable lessons she learned on Disney sets and how she ultimately embraced her past to forge a unique path in the horror-comedy genre.
Summary We have a wealth of wonderfully talented actors who got their start making Disney shows and films. But, as often discussed on Collider Ladies Night, this is an industry with a habit of boxing artists in to the first they do well. One particularly popular box? The Disney box, and that’s the one I focused on with Heart Eyes star, Olivia Holt.
With Heart Eyes now playing in theaters nationwide, Holt took the time to swing by the Collider Ladies Night studio to recap her journey to becoming an undeniable force in the genre space, beginning with the foundation she established for herself while working at Disney. “I think when I started on Kickin’ It was when I really kind of grasped what I was doing. We had an actor in the show, his name is Jason Earles, and Jason Earles was previously on Hannah Montana, and he played Miley’s brother. He’s a sitcom veteran. He knows what he's doing. He's so brilliant and so funny. He really became my mentor for four years. He made it feel less new. He always made it exciting, but he just made it feel familiar in a way that I don't even know how he did it.
“It's very difficult because, especially when you do not only one, but two shows, and I did a Disney Channel Original Movie in between doing those shows, there is a rainbow above your head that says ‘Disney Star,’ and it's really hard for people to break you out of that. Honestly, even for myself, I didn't know who I was.
“The director of our pilot on Cloak and Dagger, her name is Gina Prince-Bythewood. I love that woman, and she really helped me understand the gravity of being a woman on set. I don't even think she knows this. It's not something I think that she probably sought out, but I watched the way that she carried herself as a woman on set, and the way she spoke to her crew, and the way she treated her actors, and the way she was just so collaborative, and it all came from a very passionate place.
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