Natalia Dyer did a lot of screaming for her first acting role in 2009, but it wasn’t because she was being stalked by a demogorgon. In “Hannah Montana: The Movie,” she played a hardcore Hannah Montana fan named Clarissa Granger. Unbeknownst to Clarissa, her idol witnesses her freaking out over a free concert ticket, and when Clarissa becomes aware of Hannah’s presence, she becomes downright hysterical.
Dyer spoke about the role in a video interview with Cosmopolitan. Like Cyrus, the actor is a Tennessee native, so she jumped on the rare opportunity to audition for a major production that was being filmed in Nashville. “When this came through, it was the talk of the town,” she said. But shooting the movie wasn’t exactly a pleasant experience for the then-14-year-old Dyer, who recalled it being miserably hot. Her character was supposed to be British, so she also had to scream with an accent. “I don’t think I did the accent justice, but then I don’t know if I can do a great British accent now,” she confessed to Cosmopolitan UK.
The experience didn’t make Dyer swear off roles that require her to play a non-American. “I’m always interested in any role that you have to learn something outside of yourself for, whether it’s a skill or an accent,” she told NME. Luckily, Dyer’s British boyfriend Charlie Heaton can help her improve her fake accent if she’s ever cast as a Brit again.
Nicki
