While there are tons of Easter eggs referencing the original, which had a “creepy-crawly feeling” in its own right, Original Sin is “very different in that it’s rooted in horror,” Bechtel adds. “I would be geeking out if she came and said hello.” “I don’t know what she would be doing, but maybe she can become friends with our moms,” Bechtel suggests about her dream cameo on Original Sin.
But this time, the story is set in the eerie, blue-collar town of Millwood, where a new group of disparate teenage girls are tormented by “A”-an unknown assailant hellbent on punishing them for the sins of their mothers, as well as their own.Īs a pre-teen, Bechtel was completely absorbed in the world of the five original Liars-Alison DiLaurentis (Sasha Pieterse), Spencer Hastings (Troian Bellisario), Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale), Hanna Marin (Ashley Benson) and Emily Fields (Shay Mitchell)-and “wanted to be just like Aria.” But after rewatching the show in early adulthood, she was struck by how the parents were written-and took a special liking to Hanna’s mother, Ashley (Laura Leighton). So when Bechtel received her first audition for the upcoming series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, the Houston native-who was able to parlay a lifelong love for musical theater into becoming the first Broadway replacement for Zoe Murphy in Dear Evan Hansen in 2018-knew she could turn her childhood obsession into an art form.Ĭreated by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring, the fourth series in the Liars franchise, premiering Thursday on HBO Max, maintains the core female friendships of its predecessors.
I would get scared, and I would have to crawl into bed with my little sister.”
“It was way too mature for me at the time, but I was discovering the world of boys and drama, and I absolutely loved the creepy element,” Bechtel, now 22, tells W over Zoom with a laugh. Having already watched Coraline and My Teacher Ate My Homework, a 1997 children’s horror film about a doll that comes to life, Bechtel was immediately intrigued. It was back in the fourth grade-she had just finished performing a song with her friend, Gabby Gillespie, at a local bookstore when, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a Barbie-esque doll dressed in a pink shirt on a book cover. Mallory Bechtel will never forget the day she bought her first Pretty Little Liars book.
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