{"id":381881,"date":"2025-12-31T04:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381881\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:54:09","slug":"how-disney-entertainment-television-fosters-new-and-rising-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/381881\/","title":{"rendered":"How Disney Entertainment Television Fosters New and Rising Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSince the launch of Disney Channel in the mid-1980s, Disney Entertainment Television has become a platform for rising actors to begin their careers on screen. As the brand is gearing up for 2026, the year marks two milestones for the company: 20 years of \u201cHannah Montana<\/a>\u201d and \u201cHigh School Musical,\u201d where actors and musicians like Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, and Ashley Tisdale got their start on children\u2019s programming. For Brenda Kelly Grant, Senior Vice President, Talent and Casting, Disney Branded Television, fostering and uplifting the industry\u2019s upcoming slate of actors is key when it comes to future programming.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor my entire casting team, we remember that everyone we\u2019re looking at is in a stage of becoming,\u201d reveals Grant. \u201cIt\u2019s our job to interpret the gray area. We have an initiative where we will actually help talent. For example, if we have really good actors, but they\u2019re not so great at singing or dancing, we\u2019ll pair them up as it gets closer to the testing process with coaches who can help them with the singing and with the dancing. Our objective is to remember that this talent is becoming. We want to create the very best atmosphere for them from the beginning of the audition process until hopefully they move to other places within our company.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThroughout the last few years, former Disney talent such as the Jonas Brothers and Selena Gomez have returned to collaborate with young actors on projects like \u201cA Very Jonas Christmas Movie\u201d and \u201cWizards Beyond Waverly Place.\u201d It\u2019s an opportunity for young actors to gain insight into working at Disney, while also offering former stars the chance to explore what they\u2019re passionate about on or off screen.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u201cI think why they come back and work with us is about the opportunities and the scope of what the Walt Disney Company can offer them,\u201d said Grant. \u201cWe have so many sandboxes to play in, whether it\u2019s producing, creating, or doing voice overs. The possibilities are endless. It really goes through all of our senior leadership of just creating a best home for talent and being able to be in partnership with people to create what they want to see and what they want to feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the release of Season 2 of \u201cPercy Jackson and The Olympians<\/a>,\u201d Grant is excited for audiences to see and connect with actors like Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri as they begin to return to Camp Half-Blood. As the leads of the series, Grant is hopeful that the casting and work of younger actors at Disney Entertainment Television resonates with viewers at any age.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWalker was a young kid in the casting process, and now he\u2019s like a man,\u201d said Grant. \u201cWhen I see Leah come to me and she\u2019s like, \u201cYou know what? What else can I do?\u201d People see themselves in our talent. They see their stories and their experiences, and the challenges that you face in the world of becoming an adult. They see the power and like what they\u2019re doing. That\u2019s really appealing to people. We always not just want to meet our viewers where they\u2019re at, but we want to exceed those expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the launch of Disney Channel in the mid-1980s, Disney Entertainment Television has become a platform for rising…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,29495,20361,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-381881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hannah-montana","12":"tag-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}