Selena Gomez: My ‘Only Murders’ character is an extension of Disney show

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Awardist Podcast.“I feel like Mabel is an older version of Alex in a way,” she quipped. “I adored being on that show so much.

I felt like I did learn a lot. We actually had great writers — we had two writers that were on ‘Friends’ — and we had an incredible director that we used for most of our seasons,” Gomez said.“Wizards” lasted for 106 episodes and aired from 2007 until 2012.

The series followed Alex, a teen wizard as she navigates high school life with her friends and family while getting into a medley of mayhem along the way.“We got really lucky.

I still look back at that and laugh at certain things just because I thought it was so fun, and we tried,” Gomez noted.The “Spring Breakers” star also discussed Mabel’s bitingly funny sarcastic demeanor as well as how she was able to add some improvisation to her acting alongside costars Steve Martin and Martin Short. “We would have these freedom takes where they would throw something at me,” Gomez said.