Isabella Pappas & Kayden Muller-Janssen Interview: The Villains of Valley View
The Villains of Valley View premieres on Disney Channel June 3, where it will join previous franchises like Disney's Descendants in proving that sometimes bad guys really do have more fun. The new live-action series centers on a family of supervillains who find themselves forced to change their identities and live in hiding after daring to go up against the League of Villains. To no one but the protagonists' surprise, it turns out that disappearing into a normal life and keeping one's alter ego a secret is much harder than anticipated.
Sure to be the center of attention wherever she goes, teenage supervillain Havoc (played by stage-trained actress Isabella Pappas) tries to change her leopard's spots by befriend the eager and kindhearted Hartley (played by newcomer Kayden Muller-Janssen), who tries to teach her how to behave like a regular teen. But The Villains of Valley View doesn't forget about the parents either, as Surge (Lucy Davis, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and Kraniac (James Patrick Stuart, General Hospital) must learn to live like Eva and Vic (AKA Kraniac) for the sake of their kids.
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Screen Rant spoke to Pappas and Muller-Janssen about how to befriend a supervillain, learning how to do stunts on set, and how the Disney Channel has shaped the actresses' own childhoods.
Screen Rant: How much fun are you having playing a slightly reformed villain working your way to normal humanity?
Isabella Pappas: I literally love it so much. I think that every week I get more and more and more into the character. And it's like now I'm so into the character that I can almost tell how she would react to situations in my real life. And sometimes I have to go, «What
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