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Interview with Jennifer Stone from ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’

Jennifer Stone is getting ready to show some more of her acting chops outside of Disney Channel’s ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’. On March 26th, she has a new Disney Channel Original Movie coming up called ‘Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars’.

I chatted with Jennifer for awhile about her movie, Wizards and how she got started in acting. She also had some great advice to share for those wanting to get started in the business.

On her character Harriet: Oh, wow, she is the polar opposite from Harper. I think she’s really cool. She’s very much her own person, just like Harper is but in a very different way. She writes a lot and she doesn’t really pay attention to what she wears. She’s pretty much a jeans and t-shirt girl. The only real thought she puts into it is she likes the color red and she incorporates that a lot into her daily wardrobe, but other than that, everything else is very easy.

She’s a very focused writer and focused on work and observing other people and really just making the best piece of writing that she can. She doesn’t have time to worry about fashion or things like that.

On how she got started in acting: Well, I always joke and say it was my brother’s fault. He got into theater back in Texas, so I was always the little sister that got dragged to rehearsals, so I was always there for hours on end and I would just pretend on stage. So, of course I was the tom boy sister who wanted to be just like my brother. I got into it and over the years my brother stopped and I didn’t. I kept going. Then, somehow I got it into my head to come to California and my mom was sweet enough to listen. I went through lots of auditions and lots of no’s before I got to any yes’s. And I am definitely not done with the no’s either!

On advice for anyone wanting to start an acting career: As I look back, I think I really cultivated my love for acting while doing theater. It’s so flexible and it’s so easy to join a theater. You can join your theater at school, your drama club, your local community theater and it’s just do much fun. If you go to a childrens’ theater, one that’s not at your highschool, you can meet a lot of new kids who have the same interests as you. You get to sing and dance and just be someone else. You don’t have to worry about all of the stuff happening in high school and it can just be a great escape from that. And you learn a lot of the essentials in theater. That’s where it all came from, it all started, so you might as well learn the basics of it.

Be sure and read the full interview with Jennifer Stone here.