Selena Gomez has revealed how she feels she “signed her life away to Disney” when she joined the infamous studio as a young teeanger. The actress, who now stars alongside Martin Short and Steve Martin in Hulu’s new drama Only Murders in the Building, shared how she “didn’t know what she was doing” when she was younger, and that she was just “running around on set”.
Selena was 10 when she got her first role on Barney & Friends – alongside Demi Lovato – and 15 when she moved to Los Angeles and won the lead role in a DIsney Channel comedy, Wizards of Waverly Place.
But speaking at the Television Critics Association fall event on Monday, the now 29-year-old shared: “I signed my life away at a very young age and I didn’t know what I was doing. I was just running around on set.”
The show ended in 2012 and the new Hulu show is her first TV role since. Speaking of the decision to return to the small screen, Selena added: “What I’d say is the level of sophistication of the material is the first reason why I wanted to do this.
“But when I was a kid, I didn’t know what I was doing. I was just running around on set and now I just feel like a sponge, and I soak up all the wisdom that I can.”
She also joked: “It’s just it’s really nice to be back on TV and it’s nice to be cast as my actual age, which never happens. So, I am very happy to be doing this.”
The mini-series follows three renters in a New York City apartment who are all obsessed with true crime thrillers.
But “when a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth.”
The synopsis continues: “As they record a podcast of their own to document the case, the three unravel the complex secrets of the building which stretch back years. Perhaps even more explosive are the lies they tell one another.”
