Malia Baker Talks TBS, Activism, & More with Flaunt

Malia Baker is featured in Flaunt. The Baby-Sitters Club star sat down with the website to talk about her hit show, The Baby-Sitters Club, her activism, her family, her career goals and so much more. Highlights can be found below.

On landing the role of Mary Anne in The Baby-Sitters Club: “Mmhmm, it was very big! [laughs] It’s been amazing. We just finished filming Season 2, that was heartbreaking to see them all go back to their homes. Whatever, I miss them already. I first landed the role when I was 11 years old. The funny thing is my mom had given me one year to do acting. She said, “If nothing happens, that’s okay, but the drive to all the auditions is too much.” I said “I understand that, I can get with that.”

It was one year on the dot that I booked Mary Anne, like “Yes! Finally!” It was such an amazing experience. Everyone had prepared me for it to be really competitive, everyone wasn’t going to be so friendly. When I first walked into the audition room for the chemistry test, everyone gave me a hug. “You must be auditioning for Mary Anne!” I was wearing a generic outfit and rocking my braids, like “yeah, I am!” I met my best friends in that room that day. It’s been such a journey so far.”

On her activism: “Having a platform, it’s a responsibility to choose what you want to do with it. Whether that’s having a safe space for people online, where they want to relax and watch you living your life, or they want to see what’s going on in the world. Have their voices heard for, realized and acknowledged. That’s where my page comes in. With social media nowadays, it’s so easy to spread things. Although that can be so amazing, it can also be really hard because wrong info could be spread so easily.”

You can read her full interview here. This young star continues to impress me everyday! She is absolutely fantastic.

Source: Flaunt