Hayden Panettiere Says ‘Nashville’ Story Lines Mirrored Her Life
Hayden Panettiere is opening up about how her character arc on the CMT series Nashville mirrored her own personal life. https://t.co/w8FK1ifOUc
- Us Weekly (@usweekly) January 26, 2024
Hayden Panettiere is opening up about how her character arc on the CMT series Nashville mirrored her own personal life. The similarities between Panettiere’s personal life and the plot of Nashville was very traumatizing. She recalled feeling very, very alone while filming the show on location in the titular city. Panettiere realized some of the people in her corner didn’t have the purest intentions.
“Straight from the beginning it was like, I’m dating a football player, [and then my character] Juliette dates a football player. And then they turned her into an alcoholic. Then, they turned to her leaving her daughter … and it was very obvious … they weren’t doing their homework. They weren’t creating new story lines. They were just looking at my life and going, ‘Oh, let’s just take what she’s going through and put our little spin on it.’ And then, ta-da! It’s done and done. I felt like I was acting out my own life. My family didn’t visit a whole lot. And the team of people that I was working with at the time were not the best influence on me. And these people - some had represented me since I was 13 years old - were the kind [that] when they said, ‘Jump!,’ I jumped. If they said, ‘Wear this,’ I wore that. [It] was [to] the point where I never trusted my own opinion. That’s how it led me to make a lot of errors. People aren’t trying to protect me. They’re trying to protect themselves. It’s material people that I have been trained almost my entire life to trust and listen to and take advice from. It was a terrifying thing to do to finally make that switch.”
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