auditions for the next big thing on disney channel

'It was little bit groundbreaking at the time.'Ħ. Network executives 'said, 'Oh my god, you can't do that!'' Rogow recalled to E! News. A reminder that Lizzie aired on Disney Channel: The network initially pushed back when the writers wanted to do an episode about Lizzie buying her first bra. She just wore such great outfits, and we wanted to see what she'd come in with next.' Duff later revealed she used her clothes as a way to make herself stand out from the hundreds of other girls auditioning for the part.ĥ. One of the reasons Duff may have ultimately landed the job was her sense of style, with Disney's former president of entertainment Rich Ross telling Newsweek, 'When we were casting Lizzie McGuire we called her in four times. 'Because I knew there was so much there.'Ĥ. 'I was very honest about it and said, 'You need to get more in the character,'' Minsky recounted to us. 'I hadn't read my lines.' Close to quitting acting before landing her breakout role, she didn't take the audition too seriously, but the show's creator Terri Minsky saw potential in the young actress and reached out to her. In an interview with E! News, Duff confessed she did 'a terrible job' in her audition. Though Duff obviously emerged as the winner, producer Stan Rogow once told E! News that all their options were 'terrific and had them 'excited about presenting to the network as. Some of the other actresses who went out for the role of Lizzie included Lindsay Lohan (Duff's future rival thanks to their love triangle with Aaron Carter), Sarah Paxton and Hailee Hirsh.

The show's original title was What's Lizzie Thinking? And when it was initially pitched to Disney, it didn't have the now-infamous animated Lizzie voice-over, but just a standard voice-over from star Hilary Duff.Ģ.

Auditions for the next big thing on disney channel