Sabrina Carpenter Chats Music & Acting With HERO
Sabrina Carpenter sat down for a quick interview with Hero magazine. The young actress was on hand to discuss her new film The Hate U Give and her music. Highlights are below.
On joining the Disney family: “How I ended up in the Disney family… I guess is through a lot of different ways. Between the ages of ten and thirteen, there aren’t a lot of lead roles for kids, especially ones that focus on them and their story. I was also very particular, if it was a Disney show, then what kind would I want to do? I think that I was lucky to come into a show that was dealing with real life issues, and obviously putting a lighter spin on things because you do want that optimism – although our writers never spoke down to the audience. My character had very real circumstances – a father who left the family when my character was five years old, and now has another family, and a mother that was a bit unstable and didn’t have a job. Playing that, I was like, this is great, they’re really trying to address real life issues and things actually happening in so many kids’ lives.”
On balancing acting and singing: “When you’re twelve years old, it’s so easy to be like, “I want to be an actress and a singer, let’s do it all!” because your metabolism is up, you don’t need an espresso, your body is like, go, go, go! And then… you go through puberty and things start to slow down, you can’t run as fast… I’m nineteen, but still [laughs]. I’m lucky that I have a great group of people that I surround myself with that have always supported me and told me when to rest and take some time out. There’s just a big world out there, and we’re so small. But definitely the past few years have been harder than the years before, because I’m that kind of girl that will work until they physically pull me off set or out of the studio. I am very passionate and a perfectionistic in many ways… but I always want the best of what I can offer, and I think that’s a blessing and a curse.”
You can check out even more from her interview here.
