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Mae Whitman Talks Stepping Out of Her Comfort Zone in New Musical Rom-Com 'Up Here' (Exclusive)

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Mae Whitman has been acting since she was two years old, but her new Hulu series,, is like nothing she's ever done before.«I've never done a musical.

I've never gotten to dance,» she shared with ET on the set of the upcoming musical rom-com. «For me, this is totally outside my comfort zone, but it's something I've always really wanted to try...

I definitely was terrified, but it's definitely turned out to be the best working experience I've ever had.»The series, developed by Tony winner Steven Levenson and Oscar-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, stars Whitman and star Carlos Valdes as Lindsey and Miguel, who meet in New York City in the late '90s and fall in love...though not without some hiccups along the way.The fun twist in their tale — apart from the epic original song and dance numbers — is that the pair is followed around by the real-life manifestations of the voices in their heads, from their parents to their childhood friends to their work colleagues.«You get to see these two people as they slowly fall in love, but they kind of keep missing each other because they keep trying to be something that they're not… And every time they go with their intuition, there's all these voices from their past saying, 'Don't do this.

Don't do that,'» Whitman explained. «They kind of keep missing each other, and every time you're like, 'No, wait, but you're meant to be!'»«I think the thing I love about it is, it's big and there's music and there's dancing,» she added. «But in actuality, what you're really seeing is every tiny, single, small moment of these people's lives and decision-making process, which I think is a really cool juxtaposition.»Whitman added that another thing she likes about the series.

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