How Is Miley Cyrus Suddenly In This Movie?
Big Fish came out in 2003 with a star-studded cast. So much so that we totally missed the fact that, in addition to other stars who can link their names to it, it is a Miley Cyrus movie. And she wasn’t an extra that was easily lost in the background. Her face is front and center in one scene and she even speaks. If you’ve seen this movie as often as fans have, you might be just as convinced that Miley wasn’t always in it. But rather that she was superimposed on a more recent version of the film. No, that’s not the case.
The Miley Cyrus Movie Before Hannah Montana
It’s more likely that we didn’t notice this was a Miley Cyrus movie when it first came out because she wasn’t known then. She was only 10 in this film role, according to screenrant.com, and her spotlight didn’t first illuminate until three years later when she was cast as Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel. If anyone knew of her at this point, it might just have been that they knew she was the child of Billy Ray.
Even those of us who have seen the movie recently might have missed Miley Cyrus on the screen. Which is a testament to the brilliance of John August’s screenwriting and Tim Burton’s direction. Those two got us so engrossed in the movie that Elvis could probably have resurfaced in the film and we wouldn’t have noticed.
Recognizing Miley in the film was made harder by the fact that she was credited under her birth name, Destiny Cyrus, screenrant.com reports. The character she played in the movie was Ruthie, one of the friends of young Edward Bloom. The scene is the where the kids went to the house of the famed witch, played by Helena Bonham Carter. The legend was that by looking into the eye of the witch, they would be able to see how they were going to die.
And now that we’ve seen the clip of Miley’s role in Big Fish, we can’t unsee her.
Seeing a Miley Cyrus movie has been much more common after Cyrus gained worldwide fame as Hannah Montana. Her other movies have included Disney’s Bolt, LOL, The Last Song and High School Musical 2, according to imdb.com.
So it looks like Big Fish isn’t just a Ewan McGregor movie anymore. Now it’s a Miley Cyrus movie too. Maybe we’ll spend the weekend watching other movies and see who else we might have missed before they were stars.
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