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Alyson Stoner, who makes use of they/them pronouns, took to their podcast, Expensive Hollywood, on Aug. 18 to recall what’s was wish to have their first kiss on-camera. The 30-year-old actor beforehand starred in The Suite Lifetime of Zack & Cody on Disney Channel and took on the position of Max, alongside real-life twins Dylan and Cole Sprouse, 31. Throughout the tell-all podcast episode, Alyson revealed that they felt “uncomfortable” kissing the twins on the age of 12.
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“Writers and executives might decide to make your character do anything on the next episode and it’s assumed that you’re going to agree to whatever is scripted,” they defined. “My first kiss and several of the times I experienced kissing all happened on camera.” Alyson went on to recall the episode of the Disney present wherein their character, Max, needed to kiss each Zack and Cody, who had been Dylan and his brother‘s characters.
“I remember on Suite Life on Disney, I’d already booked the role of Max and I’d filmed an episode,” the Camp Rock star mentioned. “Well, a few weeks later, they wrote an episode where Max had to kiss both twins.” The official episode is titled “Kisses and Basketball” and aired on the present’s first season. Alyson claimed that they weren’t conscious that they had been set to kiss Dylan and Cole on the present once they first auditioned for the position.
“I felt young and uncomfortable,” they admitted. “I felt like, you know, this is part of my job. I chose to act and audition for this project. It’s only a character. So in that way, I justified like, ‘OK, I can have my kiss here and then I’ll have my own separate first kiss at some point.’” Alyson shared a clip of this dialog by way of TikTok and plenty of of their 2.7 million followers took to the feedback to react to the kissing incident.
“That’s actually so messed up….,” one fan wrote, whereas one other added, “This is so sad actually.” A separate viewer took to the feedback to share their hopes on what this dialog may do for the trade. “I’m hoping intimacy coordinators becoming industry standard helps with this,” they penned. Lastly, one fan expressed their assist for Alyson. “Growing up watching you, this is so disheartening that you had to experience these things. We love you and support you!”, they gushed. The Ohio native went on to star on many different Disney tasks together with Lilo & Sew, Cheaper by the Dozen, Phineas and Ferb the Film, and extra.
