Danielle Rose Russell) distances herself from the musical.
In the video above, stars of the show including actress Jenny Boyd who plays Lizzie on
Legacies and plays the
Candice King‘s character) in the musical talk about the “hilarious” Easter Eggs sprinkled throughout the musical and the entire episode for Vampire Diaries fans.
Aria Shahghasemi says the
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The Originals over the three seasons so far, but the show is going above and beyond with its next episode that puts on a musical that tells the origin story of the Salvatore School. It s not the first show on The CW to go musically meta in a big way, but actress Kaylee Bryant brought a unique perspective to Salvatore: The Musical! as a
Vampire Diaries superfan, and it turns out that she has one big regret about the episode.
Kaylee Bryant, who plays Josie on
Legacies and describes herself as so obsessed with
The Vampire Diaries, shared the mistake she made while playing Nina Dobrev s Elena for the musical episode with EW:
Exclusive: The Cast of Legacies Reveal The Long Road to Bring Salvatore: The Musical! to Life I hope that people enjoy it and can appreciate what we all put into it. Feb 4, 2021
It s not easy filming a TV show during a global pandemic. After shutting down early during their second season, the cast of
Legacies got back to work on the series a few months later as they continued right where they left off, managing to bring in new storylines and changes to its planned trajectory. But with so much uncertainty still looming, it added an extra challenge as they tried to continue filming the series safely and without any major changes to its scenes. Since
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: As a fan of
The Vampire Diaries, what was your reaction the first time you read this episode?
KAYLEE BRYANT: Oh, I was so excited! I was so obsessed with The Vampire Diaries, and I ve watched it so many times. I feel like the past 5-6 years of my life have been in preparation for this. [Laughs] I got super nervous when they told me I was playing Elena. But the more that I realized it was me playing Josie and Josie who was playing Elena, the more I was like, Oh, this is okay. This makes sense.