8.
Sasha
Pieterse,
who
would
go
on
to
play
Alison
DiLaurentis,
was
this
close
to
landing
the
role
of
Hanna
before
producers
discovered
she
was
only
12
years
old.
“I
knew
what
Hanna
was
going
to
do
and
I
was
like, ‘Do
we
really
want
a
12-year-old
doing
those
things?'”
King
recalled
in
an
interview
with
Variety. “But
also,
they
can
only
work
a
certain
amount
of
hours
under
the
age
of
16.
So
that’s
when
we
just
said
she’s
Alison.
She
read
with
a
few
of
the
girls
as
Alison,
she
was
several
years
younger
than
all
of
them,
but
she
scared
the
hell
out
of
everyone
in
a
good
way.”
9.
Ashley
Benson was
the
last
of
the
four
main
actors
cast,
with
King
revealing
to
Variety, “I
remember
her
coming
in
for
her
audition
and
she
was
in
tears
because
she
was
on
a
show
called
Eastwick
and
she
had
just
found
out
it
was
canceled,
and
so
she
came
over
to
this
audition.”
King
continued, “We
knew
we
wanted
a
blonde
for
this
role
because
it
was
one
of
the
last
roles
to
cast
and
other
than
Alison,
we
did
not
have
a
blonde
in
the
show.
We
couldn’t
find
the
right
person
and
she
came
in…there’s
just
something
magical
that
happens
with
her
and
the
way
the
camera
captures
her
and
those
eyes.
We
all
knew
in
the
room
that
we
found
our
Hanna.”
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