6 fun facts about the movie that has Miley Cyrus in the lead role

In the Afternoon Session this Tuesday, 2, Brazilians recalled a film that marked the film career of the singer and actress Miley Cyrus. The film ‘The Last Song’ (‘The Last Song’, in English) is based on a melancholy book written by the author Nicholas Sparks. The film also features an actor who became very well known after the film’s premiere: Liam Hemsworthbrother of Chris Hemsworth, the ‘Thor’ of the Marvel Universe.

Thinking about the exhibition of the film on Brazilian television, Recreio Digital recalls 5 curiosities about the film that showed another side of the performance of Miley Cyrusafter all, until the premiere of the film, in 2010, the public knew, in fact, the actress side of the interpreter in the comedy series ‘Hannah Montana’, on the Disney Channel.

1. Real life romance

‘The Last Song’ tells the story of a teenager named Ronnie (Miley Cyrus). Rebellious and going through a not so positive phase, she is taken to spend the holidays with her father, the pianist Greg Kinnear (played by Steve Miller). It was at this moment that she discovered a common passion with her father: the piano.

Still during the experience, the young woman meets Will Blakelee (Liam Hemsworth). Despite not getting along well at first, living together brings them closer and both end up falling in love. Here, the curiosity is that it was through the film that Miley Cyrus met the actor Liam Hemsworth. Falling in love during the recordings, they ended up living a real-life romance of almost a decade.

“Then I heard a rumor that he really didn’t want the part, and when he came to audition for the role, I thought, ‘Here’s this guy, he’s incredibly good-looking, super confident, and he doesn’t realize how blessed he is. he is for being in this room, because I know how blessed I am. This is a huge opportunity for both of us,’” Miley Cyrus said in an interview with Seventeen magazine in 2009. “And I was thinking, ‘Ugh, gross,’ you know? So I started talking to him, and he was just the most genuinely precious and sweet person. And the second audition comes in, and the chemistry was instantaneous.”

2. Before Liam came Rafi

As reported by US Magazine in 2020, the role played by liam almost went from Rafi Gavron.

“That was the first job I got (in the US), and it was literally at the end of my three-month visa. They cast another kid and it didn’t work for him,” he said. liam on the Today show in 2019. “My agent calls me, whispering, like, ‘You have to go to Disney now. It’s not working with the other guy. You have to go in and read with Miley again.’ I walk in and everyone starts applauding like, ‘We should have gone with you first!’”

3. Homage to the grandfather

Another curiosity about ‘The Last Song’ is that the character’s name, ‘Ronnie’, was chosen by Miley Cyrus. US Magazine explained that the actress and singer’s decision was made as a tribute to her grandfather, who was named Ron and died in 2006. With melancholy lyrics and soft beats, the song ‘I Miss You’, from ‘Meet Miley Cyrus‘, debut solo album by Cyrusis a tribute to his grandfather.

4. Cyrus on piano

It was for the movie that Miley Cyrus learned to play the piano. In an interview with MTV News in the year 2010, she said that it was a difficult process.

“The piano was difficult. I was nervous – I was like – am I doing it the way you’re supposed to do it?” said Cyrus in 2010. “I had to be classically trained as well. Sit up straight, and your wrists have to be a certain way and you have to look comfortable and look like you could be accepted into Juilliard, the way Ronnie should be.”

5. Liam Discovers Miley’s Success

Before ‘The Last Song’, Miley Cyrusalready had a successful career as an actress in Hannah Montana and a singer – both promoting the soundtrack of the series and in a solo career. However, it seems that Liam, who lived in Australia, didn’t know much about the resounding success of Cyrus in the states.

“When I joined, I didn’t know how big of a star she really was,” explained Liam. “I had seen the show a few times but had no idea how big it was. Miley Cyrus was. I guess it was good because I wasn’t nervous about how big it was. So I went in and read it with her, and it was really good. It was amazing working with her.”

6. Miley’s Backstage Trick

Bobby Coleman, actor who played Ronnie’s brother in ‘The Last Song’, had almost a matchmaking role behind the scenes in the film. This because miley needed to know if liam saw a love interest in her.

“He (Bobby) is probably one of the most hysterical kids I’ve ever met in my life,” Miley told Good Morning America in the year 2010. “That kid will do anything for five bucks. In the end he literally had a receipt for me. It was like $80. I paid him $10 to go ask Liam if he liked me. I sent him back and forth. It was really fun.”