Aly Michalka

she would be gone to like get you to the audition and then would be like straight back on set.

I mean, yeah.

I mean, it's funny.

She had the offer.

I had the offer.

And it was, Phil hadn't ended at that point.

It was like they knew that Phil, I think, was on the way out or told us like, you know, we might not be doing a third season.

And Gary, who, you know, was the head of the channel, Gary Marsh at the time.

Yeah, was like, this pilot has come in and we think that you're really perfect for it.

And I just remember reading it

And being like, wait, but I'm doing music as Allie.

And this might be really confusing being Hannah and being the character also playing Hannah.

There actually would have been three of you.

It would be very confusing.

And I was like, you know, how does AJ relate to this?

And then they, I mean, they literally said, well, then AJ could play the best friend part.

lily lily i think yeah so they were like why don't you have and i was like but it feels like it's my show it's not really like right hannah and lily show um and i think at that point too i was probably like close to being maybe 17 at that point um which is funny too because like we weren't on the channel for that long like i i booked phil at 13 and then by the time it was over i was like you know

whatever, 16 and a half or something.

So I was like almost 17, I think, when that was offered.

And I just remember thinking like, I've kind of done what I wanted to do here on the channel.