Wizards of Waverly Place might have premiered over a decade in the past however showrunner Peter Murrieta lately spilled some main tea in regards to the collection.
In case you missed it, Peter revealed that Selena Gomez’s character Alex was positively imagined 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 understand there was a spark between the characters on the time.
“I used to be identical to naturally very homosexual…I booked the position, and truthfully, I had no notion or ideas that there was some type of like undertone or underlying storyline that was happening,” she mentioned on the Wizards of Waverly Pod.
However upon rewatching the present as an grownup, Hayley says it was fairly apparent what was up between Alex and Stevie.
“The lesbian vitality was actually thriving at that second,” she mentioned. “However I used to be within the closet to the general public at the moment.”
Whereas she says she was “in all probability out to folks” in her inner-circle again then, it wasn’t till 2015 that she publicly got here out with the discharge of her music “Ladies Like Ladies.”
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“But it surely’s humorous to look again and it is actually a lot enjoyable to listen to the followers’ reactions to Stalex and the feedback of everybody simply being like, ‘That is so homosexual,'” she mentioned. “So, I used to be only a child Hayley within the closet at the moment [on the show].”
You may hear all that Hayley needed to say right here.
