Miles to Go by Miley Cyrus

Author:Miley Cyrus
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Issues
ISBN: 9781423119920
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2009-03-01T08:00:00+00:00

In Canada, when I wasn’t cheering or being home-schooled, I was always tagging along with my mom. That meant dropping by the set of Doc to see my dad. Being around the set so much, I absorbed a little bit about filming; how the camera blocking worked, what it meant when they said “Cut”; how important it was to be quiet. But mostly I liked trying on wigs in the wardrobe room. I know, I know. Some people look back on their lives and discover the theme to their life has been overcoming adversity, or battling injustice, or comforting the afflicted. So far, when I look back on my life, the only theme that I see starting to emerge is wigs.

My dad had been on Doc for a couple of years, and the producers all knew our family. Shortly after we arrived on the scene, the producer (or was it the director?) of Doc offered me the part of a girl named Kiley on an episode of the show. Kiley was an outgoing little girl with an alcoholic, abusive mother who came to live with her father in New York. Kiley’s dad lived in the same apartment building as Doc (my dad). I had some good scenes as Kiley—some deep scenes dealing with the abusive mother, and a scene where Kiley tried out for the school play and got made fun of for her Tennessee accent. Little did I know how much I would need the experience. In two arenas: acting on TV and dealing with the mean girls.

If I had to pinpoint a moment, I’d say playing Kiley definitely gave me the acting bug. But mostly I have to mention it because it was nearly half of my professional acting résumé when I tried out for Hannah Montana.

After Doc, I started doing an actors’ workshop and went to a few camps where I got to do monologues and plays. And I guess it paid off. The next time we were in Nashville on a visit to friends, my mom’s friend Wendi (the one who later helped me write "I Miss You" about Pappy) was taking her kids to audition for a Banquet Foods commercial starring country singer Lee Ann Womack. I was curious, so she brought me along. Wendi’s kids are younger than I am, so when the casting director said they were looking for an older girl for the spot, Wendi said I should go in. I don’t remember what happened at the audition, but I got the commercial—and an agent in the process.

What I do remember is that the night before I went in to tape the ad, my mom cooked up some of the Banquet Foods products I’d be eating the next day. But when I came into the kitchen to have a taste, my brothers had eaten all of them. So they couldn’t have been too bad—but I’m a picky eater. The next day, between takes, I ducked behind the table and spat out the beans (I think that’s what they were) into my hand.

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