Entertainment Tonight<\/a>, Gomez reflected on her debut as Alex Russo on the original Disney Channel series in 2007 (which ended in 2012) \u2014 and reuniting with her co-stars Jennifer Stone and Gregg Sulkin for the reboot.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThis is it. This is the end of\u00a0Wizards of Waverly Place, the end of\u00a0Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. And it\u2019s really surreal to say that I\u2019m done playing this character,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hope is that people fall in love with family shows again, and that they hold this to a standard of appreciating what it means to just have a show that the whole family can get together, watch, hopefully laugh,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019m going to really miss that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tDuring the revival, Gomez also made her directorial debut for the third and final episodes of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. For Stone, filming the final installments with Gomez felt emotional. \u201cI was like, crying all the time \u2018cause it felt like saying goodbye to \u2014 in a weird way \u2014 your teenage self,\u201d Stone said. \u201cLike you could go back as an adult and give your teenage self a hug and then let them go. That\u2019s kind of what it felt like.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWizards of Waverly Place,\u00a0which ran from 2007 to 2012, racked up two Emmys in the children\u2019s program category and Gomez\u2019s breakout role as Alex catapulted her career, leading Gomez to star in Disney Channel movies including\u00a0Another Cinderella Story,\u00a0Princess Protection Program, and\u00a0Ramona and Beezus.\u00a0The singer-actress later earned her first Emmy nod as a lead actress in a comedy series for her role in\u00a0Only Murders in the Building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The singer-actress says goodbye to her beloved character Selena Gomez\u00a0and her\u00a0time at Wizards of Waverly Place\u00a0has come to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,9618,93,61,60,8596],"class_list":["post-584626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-selena-gomez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}