‘Astrid and Lilly Save The World’ stars on new plus-sized heroine series

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never see that, really, in any casting call. You don’t really see leading female roles with rolls. And the fact that they were also going to save the world – I was excited to see bigger girls saving the world.

That was really cool to me.”“The show is really about friendship and trust and growing,” said Aucoin, a singer/songwriter and a newcomer to acting (this is her debut onscreen role). “It was an extreme learning curve.

I had never been on a set before and didn’t even know what a mark was.”She found her character, Lilly, to be extremely relatable, she said. “Just knowing that she was dealing with similar sorts of insecurities that I dealt with growing up was really appealing to me.

The character is so vulnerable and I got to kind of live in that mentality for a little while. I went through a lot of those physical and internal insecurities in high school.