Beth Chamberlin, who played her on-screen mother in the US soap opera Guiding Light for three years, described her as “the most brilliant child actor I’ve ever seen”.<\/p>\n
“The things she could do, the way she could remember 20+ pages of dialogue, day after day,” she posted online, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Even on days where the director would come out between dress [rehearsal] and tape and make huge cuts to the scenes, Hayden, never once forgot a line or missed her blocking. The adults would, but not Hayden.<\/p>\n “I felt blessed to work with her. And always perfect in her playing of the scene.”<\/p>\n Panettiere’s final big-screen appearance came earlier this year in the movie Sleepwalker.<\/p>\n Her co-star Justin Chatwin has shared how the actress was “struggling” on the set of the thriller in early 2025.<\/p>\n “Hayden seemed different when I met her this time than when I met her in the early years,” Chatwin told People, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I’ve been sober for 15 years, so I know this world of addiction, and Hollywood – it takes, and it takes from youth.”<\/p>\n He added: “I could tell she was struggling, and I was like, ‘I don’t think it’s this movie’.”<\/p>\n “There’s a handful of women that I’ve worked with that I really liked, and I really loved working with her, but I also know that she was really lonely.”<\/p>\n