![]() ![]() Railey found an excuse every single time, because she was the one that was mostly communicating with them. Seazynn: Well, we were supposed to do that during the audition process, send in a video of us singing. Did you have to sing during your audition, and how did you prepare for that? You mentioned earlier that neither of you had really sung before this. Seazynn: I mean, obviously she didn’t take us down there, but she had my mom and dad take us, and it was at this hotel and it was just a bunch of other 9-year-olds that wanted to get on Disney Channel. Railey had heard it on the radio and she took us to audition. ![]() Seazynn: P.S., she took us to a couple of Disney auditions. But I was never going to do anything about that. It was always in the back of my mind like, maybe I could be an actor, maybe I could do it. It was just a thought, and I was like, I don’t know, that would kind of be fun. Actually, as a child, I thought it would be fun to be an actor. I mean, at least Seazynn had some ideas and some ways to get there, like going to her firefighter thing. Railey: For me, I had absolutely no ideas. To prepare, the twins worked with an acting coach four times a week for six months, along with taking guitar and singing lessons.īelow, Railey and Seazynn discuss stage fright, what they were like in high school and how they hope the show inspires other young members of the queer community. 14 - one would never guess that it’s Railey and Seazynn’s first foray into acting and music. Indeed, watching “High School” - which premiered on Oct. And especially once they got the job and we started working with them, it was just wild exactly how perfect they were.” “So then when Railey and Seazynn appeared via the TikTok algorithm, it was really unbelievable. Because it was not just one person who could do those things - it was two people who look exactly the same,” DuVall tells Variety. “We knew that what we were asking for was a completely unreasonable thing. When it came to casting, writer, director and co-showrunner Clea DuVall wanted the series to be as authentic as possible - meaning she was looking for queer identical twins who were also musically talented. But then I thought, ‘How could we get the job? We aren’t actors.’”īut sure enough, after sending in a tape, doing a Zoom audition and meeting the crew in-person, Railey and Seazynn got the job. “That’s not what we wanted to do -we don’t want to be actors. “I originally thought, ‘Why would we ever do that?’” Seazynn says. It took a bit longer for her sister to warm up to the idea. Though neither sisters had acted, sung or played a musical instrument before (Railey says she’s never even been to a concert, though her first one will be Tegan and Sara next month), Railey was open to the opportunity. Tegan explained that she and Sara were adapting their bestselling memoir “High School” - which chronicles their teenage discovery of their passion for music - into a TV show, and were looking for identical twins to audition. Then, Railey got a DM from Tegan, who had stumbled on her TikTok account. “We had heard the names ‘Tegan and Sara’ because people in my comments section would compare us,” Railey tells Variety on a gray day at a park in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles. Neither really knew about the Grammy-nominated band -except when their growing TikTok fan base would point out their resemblance. Before 21-year-old twins Railey and Seazynn Gilliland were cast as real-life indie-pop sister duo Tegan and Sara Quin in Amazon Freevee’s “ High School,” they were working at Round Table Pizza in Fresno, Calif., and making goofy TikToks on the side. ![]()
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