Malia Baker Chats Auditions & The Baby-Sitters Club With ELLE Canada

Malia Baker is featured in the new issue of ELLE Canada. The young actress is in the magazine to promote her new Netflix series, The Baby-Sitters Club. Highlights from her interview are below.

On her audition process for Mary Anne: “The audition process for Mary Anne was the longest audition process I’ve ever been through. That was my first audition with such a big company [Netflix]. I first auditioned with a self-tape, and of course my mom and I were running around the house with excitement, because it’s Mary Anne Spier from The Baby-Sitters Club. The second audition they asked me to do a video call and I happily agreed. For the third audition, they asked to fly me out to L.A., and of course I agreed – it’s Netflix! I went there and did my thing and everyone was so lovely and nice. It was really surprising because we got told at the final audition [that we got our parts], which is super rare. That gave the cast a bit of leverage because we got to exchange phone numbers and get to know one another before filming.”

On favorite memories from set: “We had two birthday parties and surprised each of the girls for their birthdays. For one of them, we hid inside of her trailer in her bathroom while we decorated the rest of her trailer. It was an early morning and we came in even earlier than her, and she was so surprised when she came in. Catering got her cake and after that we went to the movies and saw It Chapter Two. I am not a scary movie fan but I did it for her. It was honestly terrifying, but I learned to like it afterwards, I think she got me hooked in the horror realm. We ate pizza and it was so much fun.”

You can check out even more from her interview here. The Baby-Sitters Club is available to stream on Netflix now.