Not content with just being the small screen’s Superman, Tom Welling was on hand at the CW’s TCA panel to promote‘Hellcats,’ the new cheerleading show he’s producing with Kevin Murphy.
Stars Ashley Tisdale and Aly Michalka were also in attendance on the panel, which was peppy as a pep squad with reporters talking all over each other to put their questions to the cast.
Some of the highlights are included below.
– The choice to make Michalka’s Marti a pre-law student will be utilized throughout the series.“It’ll be interesting, watching her trying to balance cheerleading, which is so frivolous, with something as dignified as a law degree,” Murphy reflected.“Having the law element allows us to have a bit of a franchise— we’ll see Marti involved with a legal case to do with the Three Strikes Laws in Memphis.”
– On why he cast Tisdale and Michalka, Murphy said,“With Ashley, I laughed my ass off and wanted to get up and hug her at the same time; she can hold multiple colors in the same palatte.” Casting Marti was“a long and arduous process” but Murphy said that after they saw Michalka, there was no-one else.“She had determination and grit and assertiveness and vulnerability.”
– Though both Tisdale and Michalka have a musical background, Michalka said“it was a cool coincidence, but it was mostly something where we happened to be right for these roles and happened to fight for them really hard.” She cited the need to dispel any preconceived notions that people had about cheerleaders, insisting“cheerleaders arebadass,they’re athletes.”
– Michalka agreed:“There’s this connection that the two characters have— what pulls them together is their passion for what they love; in Marti’s case it’s law, in Savannah’s it’s the nationals and her team.”
– Michalka admitted that she had no formal cheerleading experience. Her mother was a cheerleader, but Michalka was trained in hip-hop and was part of dance companies as a teen.
– Since Tisdale and Michalka have musical backgrounds, they were both open to the idea of singing on the show, but said that they planned to keep their music careers separate.Michalka will sing in a“relaxed setting” coming up in a future episode.
– Tisdale and Michalka are apparently obsessive about doing their own stunts, like flying and helicopters. They will have“eclectic dance numbers” populated by all-star cheerleaders, tumblers and street dancers.
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