Sasha Pieterse thinks a cameo as Alison DiLaurentis on Fairly Little Liars: Summer season Faculty might reply some significantly open-ended questions on her character — and permit for the Emison reunion followers deserved.
“I feel it will be so enjoyable to do a cameo. I might undoubtedly say sure to that,” Pieterse, 28, solely advised Us Weekly whereas selling her new movie, The Picture of You. “I feel that might be actually enjoyable. Instructor Allison? Completely. Possibly we might fill in all of these gaps [left by The Perfectionists]. Emily and Alison are again collectively. We might tie all of that with a pleasant little bow. I might undoubtedly be down for that.”
Pieterse portrayed Queen Bee Ali on all seven seasons of the unique sequence alongside Shay Mitchell, Lucy Hale, Troian Bellisario and Ashley Benson from 2010 to 2017. She later reprised the function for PLL: The Perfectionists, however the present was canceled after one season.
Whereas Pieterse was excited to proceed with Alison’s story, there have been plot factors within the spinoff that didn’t sit proper with who she believed her character to be — particularly when it got here to the choice for Alison and Emily (Mitchell) to divorce.
“I’ll say the 2 of them getting divorced actually made me unhappy,” Pieterse advised Us. “I don’t suppose in [Shay and I’s] model of Alison’s actuality, that might be the case. I feel that Emison is without end, I really, really do. They went by way of lots of issues collectively. I feel that they’re form of a yin and yang, and as they received older, I really feel like they might work by way of these issues.”
One other subject was failing to incorporate Ali and Emily’s twins on the present. “They’ve two cute daughters collectively,” Pieterse identified. “Allison not having the ability to showcase, or me not having the ability to showcase, Alison connecting together with her children. That was an enormous factor [that upset me].”
Shay Mitchell as Emily and Sasha Pieterse as Alison in ‘Fairly Little Liars: The Perfectionists.’ Freeform/ABC
For Pieterse, Ali and Emily “belong collectively as a unit.” And though she admitted that they each wanted “remedy” after the “trauma and PTSD” of what PLL threw their approach, she believes they might have labored by way of it in the long run.
“Alison is a really robust headed particular person and I feel she had lots of stubbornness that she wanted to work by way of, however I feel they might’ve gotten there,” she continued. “And I’d prefer to suppose that [Emison] is a very particular relationship that might be protected.”
Past desirous to restore the Ali and Emily romance, Pieterse advised Us that working alongside the brand new solid of PLL: Summer season Faculty — which stars Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco, Malia Pyles and Zaria — on a way more horror-centric interplay of the franchise can be a deal with.
“These ladies are so proficient and I feel it’s actually enjoyable that Fairly Little Liars resides on,” she gushed. “I feel there’s a lot enjoyable available. I like that theirs is darker in so some ways. I’m form of envious. I’m like, ‘I want we might have gone darker and I want we might have executed so lots of the issues that they get to do.’ However I’m glad that it’s at that place and that it’s simply in a approach, one other technology of people who find themselves going to fall in love with PLL another time. That’s actually particular.”
Whereas Pieterse is probably not displaying up on this season of Summer season Faculty, she’s received loads of darker materials to dive into with The Picture of You. Within the movie, Pieterse performs Anna and Zoe, twins carefully bonded — however polar opposites — who discover themselves at odds when Anna begins relationship her new boyfriend, Nick (Parker Younger).
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In keeping with Pieterse, those that loved watching her as Alison on PLL will discover lots of enjoyment in seeing her deliver Anna and Zoe to life.
“I feel [Alison] is form of a part of my unconscious after I play any person like Zoe,” she advised Us. “I used to be clearly used to enjoying a personality like that for therefore lengthy, and I form of like to consider [her] because the grownup Ali. If Ali by no means modified, Zoe is the grownup Ali in her early 30s. What she would’ve advanced into. Or not advanced from, possibly.”
The Picture of You is in theaters now.
