Amber Frank’s Challenges With Rejection Before Her Breakthrough Role On “The Haunted Hathaways”
Wizards of Waverly Pod
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Join us in this inspiring episode as we sit down with Amber Frank, known for her role in The Haunted Hathaways on Nickelodeon. Amber opens up about her journey as a young actor, starting from her childhood in Florida to facing numerous rejections in the competitive world of acting. She reveals her complicated audition process for The Haunted Hathaways and how she was nearly cast for The Thundermans. David, Jen, and Amber also discuss how being teachers at AGB Studios, where they help young actors achieve their dreams, has healed their inner child.
Why was Amber almost not cast in The Haunted Hathaways? Why did people make fun of Amber during her preteen years? And what joke did a Nickelodeon star say to Amber that hurt her feelings??
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Potco original. |
| 0:02.0 | Amber Frank everybody! |
| 0:05.0 | What was the audition process for Haunted Hathaway |
| 0:10.0 | like? |
| 0:11.0 | I remember I had audition actually for the Thundermans like a couple |
| 0:14.0 | weeks before and I got to like producers and then I didn't get it and that was the |
| 0:17.8 | moment where I went home and I sobbed and I was like I'm never gonna book |
| 0:21.6 | anything. I went through a lot of trauma during the last like probably |
| 0:27.8 | six years of my life. I'm not going to like name any names but there was somebody that I was on the network with me and he like |
| 0:36.2 | made a joke about my wonderful person who played Taylor on the |
| 0:55.3 | haunted Hathaways and you got that job when you were 13 years old on the |
| 1:00.1 | Nickelodeon and also you were on the Emmy-nominated TV series Spirit Ride Free on Netflix, many other things. |
| 1:11.1 | But Amber Frank everybody. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah! |
| 1:13.8 | Here she is! |
| 1:15.8 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:17.8 | Thank you so much for finally asking me to be on the |
| 1:20.8 | podcast. |
| 1:21.8 | Okay. It's so nice that you're here and you know like I thought of you to be here and you know you |
| 1:29.6 | you amongst a lot of things you have acted when you're a child and I think that that's something |
| 1:36.1 | you and I have that in common yeah what each is you start I started when I was like seven yeah |
| 1:40.4 | so what was your let's get into it everybody. |
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