Skyler Samuels Talks About Taking Over Aurora Teagarden Role For New Prequel Movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

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Skyler Samuels is just days away from fans meeting her version of Aurora Teagarden. The 29-year-old actress will make her debut in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New, premiering on Friday on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Skyler will play a younger version of the character, which was brought to life by Candace Cameron Bure in over 15 movies on the network.

In a new interview, Skyler opened up about the part and how she made it her own for the new movie. Keep reading to find out more… In a conversation with MediaVillage, Skyler says she was lucky that there were 18 movies that she could look back on as worked on the new film. “The opportunity of getting to kind of reinvent and reimagine this beloved character in her earlier years was really fun, and a new creative challenge I haven’t gotten to do before.

It was an exciting job to take on and it’s been a joy,” she shared. Skyler went on, saying that watching “some of the original Aurora movies and kind of honing what I thought were her character staples.

I was sort of thinking, ‘Okay, what are these little building blocks that are central to the character?’” “You don’t want to do an imitation, but you also don’t want to bring in someone who is nothing like the person you’re meant to be playing.