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Still, the short duration raises the question: What’s the real scoop?
Here are some little known facts about what went on behind the scenes.
Rather, she first envisioned it as a sort of teenage soap opera for TV.
“The rest is publishing history and now a TV show, too!”
According to makeup artist Zepture, “It takes about 30 minutes to do their makeup… Brittanylovesmakeup!
Both Zepture and Reitz agreed she did not share her sister’s fondness for the getting ready process.
“She fidgets the whole time,” revealed Reitz.
That’s not to say, though, that Pascal finds Elizabeth without flaw.
“My only problem with Elizabeth is that she isn’t boring,“she toldThe Guardian.
“Sometimes good is a little dull.”
With the stakes that high, the series' execs knew they had to nail it.
Fortunately for them, a set of twins practically made for the parts came along.
“I thought the casting was close to perfect.
The Daniel twins were amazing, and we were so lucky to have found them.
It was actually my eldest daughter Jamie who discovered them.
No teen drama here
The cast all got along really well.
We hung out quite a bit the first year.
But they were all good people and fun to work with.
I still catch up with Brock now and again.”
Buddies on the series and in real-life to this day?
There must have been some set magic.
Charette and the Daniel twins seemed to think so, too.
“Brittany always tells me, she says, ‘I love getting to do this!’
because in real life, she’s not really that way,” said Engelsman.
Much of Jessica’s wardrobe inspocame from Barbie.
Hmm, doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it?
Quite comically, though, Pascal had inadvertently used the same name as another famous fictional town.
“Do you know the musicalBye Bye Birdie?
Sweet Apple was the town in that.
My brother wrote it!
“Pascal confessed toGirls at Library.
“And it’s so strange that I didn’t even connect it with that play!
So then when I showed him what I had written he said ‘No way, Francine!’.
So then it became Sweet Valley.”
Did she agree with the casting?
(“I thought the casting was close to perfect.")
Did she think the show captured the tone well?
(“I thought it was too cartoonish.")
“I wanted more heart and truth, but unfortunately they didn’t listen to me.
Though I certainly told them many times.
I was Story Consultant, but it turned out to be in name only.
With heart, that series could have been90210before90210even happened.”
WriterDiablo Cody(ofJunoandJennifer’s Bodyfame) wants to see the TV series brought back to life, too.
That shows there’s a huge appetite out there for aSweet Valley Highmovie.”
“TheNext to Normalguys wrote the songs,” she toldVulture.
“They’re Pulitzer Prizewinners!”
Alas, fans likely won’t get to see it anytime soon… or ever.
So where are the iconic blondes now?
