Bella Thorne on leaving Disney Channel
by Tufail: Bella Thorne
Bella Thorne got real about the chaos of leaving Disney Channel. She felt this huge weight of what comes next, especially since she wanted to pursue more acting. On top of that, she was stuck between being seen as too young or too old for different roles. She says it was like eight million things hitting at once, and she’s pretty much blocked out a lot of that time.
Transcript (en)
Coming off of the channel, so much pressure. What are you going to do after the channel? Like, you're not going to stay another year. Like, you're going to go. And I really wanted to do more acting. And I remember that pressure just being so high off of the channel. And like, you can't do this because you're still funny. You can't do that because you're a little girl. But you're also a teenager. So you can't do this because you're not a little girl anymore. And it was just like eight million things at once where your brain is like, I don't even know. I think a lot of that period of my life is sort of like... blocked out in a way. Yeah, you just like needed to get through it. Yeah. Sorry. No, you're okay. You guys have tissues on the show? Yeah. Okay. We got them. I got you.
