Hey Secret Life fans! You might have heard that our very own Megan Park (Grace) will be starring alongside Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) in A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song. To get us ready for the movie’s ABC Family premiere, Megan sat down to answer questions about her character, working with Lucy Hale and being on set! Check it out:
In A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, your character can't sing--does that mean that you don't get to sing in the movie?
Megan Park: I don't get to, which is such a bummer. I have to bad sing--fake sing, which is actually really hard to purposefully bad sing off key. But, no, I don't get to sing in A Cinderella Story. Maybe I'll get to sing in something else.
What's the biggest character difference between your role in this new film and your role as Grace?
Megan Park: Playing Beverley and playing Grace are literally complete opposites. Grace is a very compassionate person, and she really wants to please everyone, and Bev is pretty selfish and just kind of wants to get ahead. I mean they're both really good people at the heart of it but Beverley is not necessarily the nice girl. So they're pretty polar opposites, which was really fun to get to do something so different than Grace. It was kind of fun.
You were doing the movie with Lucy Hale. What was the experience like and are the two of you still in contact?
Megan Park: Yeah, actually I just talked to her yesterday, I think, or the day before. She's great. We met years before—we actually met in the audition room for Secret Life, which is so weird. And I guess you're supposed to be competitive, but we just started chatting and became friends, and the she ended up doing Pretty Little Liars and I did Secret Life, so it's kind of cool. She's just really easy going and cool, and when I found out that she was doing the movie that was one of the main reasons I wanted to be part of it, was to get a chance to work with her.
And we bonded pretty much within the first ten minutes of the read through the first day, and never left each other's side. Every day off we would go shopping in Wilmington and hang out, and that's continued since we've been back in L.A. She's just a really sweet girl and she's very easy to get along with and we ended up having a lot in common. And she's just really fun and dorky and goofy like I am and doesn't take things too seriously so we got along really, really well. She's a cool girl.
And we both have major online shopping problems and online shopped together nonstop when we were filming so that was kind of the only bad part, that we egged each other on with the online shopping.