Maia Mitchell is growing up right along with her Fosters character, Callie Adams Foster.
In her Fosters spin-off, Good Trouble, Maia has to play a different version of Callie, who is now a power suit-wearing law clerk.
Maia loves how Callie has grown, but in an interview with InStyle, she revealed the one thing about Callie’s changes that did feel weird for her.
“I felt so weird about [my first power suit fitting] because I look so young,” she said, comparing the process to feeling like trying on a Halloween costume. “But I love those power suits. I love being able to just kind of stroll into a judge’s office [as Callie], wearing a power suit and six-inch stilettos, and give them piece of my mind.”
When it comes to her own style, Maia likes to keep it casual.
“I have too many pairs of jeans,†she said. “That’s pretty much my uniform — jeans and a tank. The older I get, the more girly I get, and the more I appreciate pinks, and ruffles, and that kind of thing.â€
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The 25-year-old actress got her start on Disney Channel when she catapulted to fame with her starring role as McKenzie in the Teen Beach Movie franchise. Now, in a new interview with InStyle, Maia opened up about leaving her Disney days behind in favor of more adult roles.
Specifically, she discussed taking her Fosters character, Callie, to new places in her spin-off, Good Trouble.
“I definitely, since my Disney days, have made an effort to delve a little deeper,” Maia said. “Good Trouble was another really good opportunity to do that. It was a character that I know really well, but put in a different light. It’s a little more sophisticated, which was exciting. Some of the themes are…I don’t know if they’re dark, but they’re definitely more serious.”
Maia isn’t just growing up on screen though. The actress also talked about what getting older has meant for her in her real life.
“25 has been a really interesting year for me,” she said. “I think it’s when you stop being able to excuse yourself from certain patterns of behavior. And, at least for me, it’s when I’ve really had to question certain decisions I’ve made.”
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Maia Mitchell knows how to balance working hard and playing hard.
The 25-year-old actress was photographed outside Delilah night club on Sunday night (June 16) in West Hollywood, California.
Maia’s Freeform series, Good Trouble, returns Tuesday night (June 18).
“Season one left off on a bit of a cliffhanger, particularly for Callie. She is going to have to, in season two, really make some decisions,” Maia told ET of her character’s arc in Season 2.
Maia recently appeared in Netflix’s Little Black Mirror miniseries on YouTube.
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Maia Mitchell and her longtime boyfriend, and entertainer Rudy Mancuso are set to star together in Little Black Mirror, a spinoff of shorts in the vein of Black Mirror.
Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez pose together for pics while arriving at the 2019 ABC Walt Disney Television Upfronts held at Tavern on the Green on Tuesday night (May 14) in New York City.
Maia and KJ also opened up about when they first picked up the instrument.
“I first started playing guitar around 12 or 13 and throughout high school that was what I did,” Maia shared. “Music is important to me because it’s how I first started to express myself artistically.”
KJ added that the song that made him want to learn to play was “Sweet Home Alabama”.
