Blake, wanting to reach her family, pleads to borrow Phoebe's phone. At the beginning of the first episode, the characters are on a bus when a catastrophic wildfire flares up. Stender's character, Phoebe, is a former friend of Blake (Bella Shepard), one of the lead characters. "I also didn’t know Sarah Michelle Gellar (had) signed on until I was on set, and I freaked." "I initially auditioned for this role thinking (my character) was in only one episode, and was on the luckiest streak of my life being added to more episodes," Stender told CelebrityKind. "Wolf Pack," with its debut season just released on Paramount+, is raising Stender to a new level of visibility.Ĭalls the teen werewolf drama "a certified hit," featuring an established star who became "TV sci-fi royalty" through her performance as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "Having an agent really does change the game." "It was so crazy having an agent and going from not auditioning at all to going out for movies with Meryl Streep," Stender said. was just screaming at me to move to L.A."įinally, Stender's performance at an industry showcase sparked interest and got her signed. "Even though I was having the best time and met a bunch of my best friends," Stender said, "my intuition. While Stender enjoyed her program in Nashville, she felt a pull west. "It's the first time that students from Duluth saw, 'I'm here, and there are thousands of people like me.'" Part of the "secret sauce" that helped Stender stand out, thought Horvath, was the young actor's ability to hold her sense of self "in a room where not everyone's on your side." Horvath described taking local students to Chicago to audition for college programs. "I am from Superior, grew up and fortunately had some mentors who saw and developed that talent." Horvath, who worked in New York before coming back to lead the Duluth Playhouse's education programming from 2007-2017, knew what it was like to come out of the Northland and aim for the country's biggest stages. "I went to school for musical theater for one year in Nashville, Tennessee, at Belmont University School of Music." "I really thought my path was going to be Broadway theater," she said. With her passion for the stage and a singing ability to match her acting chops, Stender planned to make a career in the performing arts.
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