Wizards of Waverly Place could have premiered over a decade in the past however showrunner Peter Murrieta lately spilled some main tea concerning the collection.
In case you missed it, Peter revealed that Selena Gomez’s character Alex was undoubtedly speculated to be bisexual — and acknowledged she had some main chemistry with the character Stevie.
Hayley Kiyoko, who performed Stevie on the present, lately mirrored on her position, admitting she did not notice there was a spark between the characters on the time.
“I was just like naturally very gay…I booked the role, and honestly, I had no notion or thoughts that there was some kind of like undertone or underlying storyline that was going on,” she mentioned on the Wizards of Waverly Pod.
But upon rewatching the present as an grownup, Hayley says it was fairly apparent what was up between Alex and Stevie.
“The lesbian energy was really thriving at that moment,” she mentioned. “But I was in the closet to the public at that time.”
While she says she was “probably out to people” in her inner-circle again then, it wasn’t till 2015 that she publicly got here out with the discharge of her tune “Girls Like Girls.”
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“But it’s funny to look back and it’s really so much fun to hear the fans’ reactions to Stalex and the comments of everyone just being like, ‘This is so gay,'” she mentioned. “So, I was just a baby Hayley in the closet at that time [on the show].”
You can hear all that Hayley needed to say right here.
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