{"id":351756,"date":"2026-01-04T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351756\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:08:11","slug":"jersey-teenager-lands-role-in-disney-drama-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351756\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey teenager lands role in Disney+ drama Rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was so nervous, I got my dad to read me the lines for two hours straight,&#8221; she said about the audition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Child-Villiers&#8217; role is &#8220;bratty, snarky and different from her on-screen kind and sweet sister&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has already appeared in Apple TV&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was doing drama clubs and an agent came along, picked a couple people out and put them up for roles,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Child-Villiers is inspired by the likes of British actress Florence Pugh to &#8220;bring a lot of range, and do both comedy and emotional&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new series of Rivals is set to be released later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was so nervous, I got my dad to read me the lines for two hours straight,&#8221; she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-351756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}