Miley Cyrus by John Bankston

Author:John Bankston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sports & Entertainment
ISBN: 9781438197890
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2020-06-16T21:08:11+00:00

Most fans weren't ready for her to "breakout." Many were still in elementary school. Yet Miley had one very important fan in North Carolina, a novelist who for the first time wrote a script that wasn't based on one of his books.

Miley's song

Nicholas Sparks became a best-selling author writing novels filled with love and hope. Meeting a young woman whose middle name had once been "Hope," inspired him to try something different. After seeing how Miley Cyrus and her father related to each, "Nick wrote the screenplay before he wrote the book," The Last Song's director, Julie Anne Robinson, explained to The Hollywood Reporter in March of 2010. While he and co-writer Jeff Van Wie developed the film's story, "we started prepping the movie," Robinson remembered, "and he went away and wrote the novel."

Shot in just six weeks beginning in June of 2009, The Last Song featured Miley in her first starring role in a non-Disney movie. Her casting was both a benefit and a challenge. While it helping having her star in the story she'd inspired, the production team was forced to squeeze filming into her already tight schedule. After wrapping Hannah Montana's third season, she would spend most of the summer headlining a concert tour. Instead of taking a holiday, she traveled to Georgia's Tybee Island where the movie was shot.

Although 12-hour work days are common for movie productions, because Miley was under-18, "[w]e had something like seven and a half hours on camera with her every day and she was in like 98% of the scenes in the movie," Robinson told The Hollywood Reporter. Because of this, several scenes that were filmed as the sun was setting were actually shot over multiple days—"[w]e would sometimes piece scenes together over four or five days…In some cases we'd pick it up three weeks later and complete that scene because we were piecing it together in like 20-minute intervals at dusk when the light was right."

Dealing with thunderstorms and high wind presented its own difficulties. In one breezy beach scene, Cyrus kept getting sand in her eyes. Robinson told the actress, "I can't ask you to carry on here." The director told The Hollywood Reporter that Miley replied, "No, Julie, I can do it. I want to carry on."

Even before The Last Song was released, Cyrus's acting on the big screen was getting noticed. Almost everyone who bought a ticket to Hannah Montana: The Movie also watched the show. Still, because it was her first time starring in a movie, she landed on many "actresses to watch" lists. In early 2010, she collected a People's Choice Award for "Breakout Actress"—despite starring on a TV show for four years. With both an award and an album promising that she would "breakout," in 2010 she did just that.

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth at the world premiere of The Last Song at the Arclight Theatre, Hollywood. March 25, 2010.

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