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Reyes, who looks up to Ariana Grande and Zendaya - both of whom also launched their multi-hyphenate careers by leading tween-facing TV shows - is proud to play Julie, but that doesn’t mean she’s without trepidations. These specters magically become visible and audible to all whenever they perform with Julie as their lead singer.

A remake of a 2011 Brazilian series, “Julie and the Phantoms” centers on a talented teen who, creatively paralyzed by the loss of her mother, meets a trio of musicians - who also happen to be ghosts, having died in 1995. Such credibility is crucial in the lead of any TV show, but especially one with a particularly imaginative premise. And yet she’s so relatable and grounded.” She has this raw talent that can take on any genre of music, and this promise of greatness that excited everybody. “After watching her video, I knew Madison was the girl to beat. “I wanted someone whom everyone could watch and really recognize themselves in,” explained Ortega. Reyes - a magnetic musical heroine with her textured voice and adorable gap-toothed smile - was cast for the demanding lead role from more than 700 self-taped auditions. She did so as the star of Netflix’s “Julie and the Phantoms,” premiering Thursday - the latest project from “High School Musical” mastermind Kenny Ortega and the first of his overall deal with the streaming service. “I was like, ‘I want to do that! What school I gotta go to to do that?!’”įast forward to last year, when the Puerto Rican teen started a dance circle in a locker-lined hallway and crowd surfed inside a confetti-covered cafeteria. “I loved watching these kids sing and dance around their school,” recalled Reyes, now 16. She’s seen the movies countless times she collected all of the Barbie dolls and stickers. Madison Reyes was only 18 months old when “High School Musical” first debuted, and her love for the franchise grew as she did. Trust me, you can feel the love this cast has for each other when watching the show.Ashley Lee ( Los Angeles Times) reports on rising star Madison Reyes: It’s amazing to see the payoff from this young cast giving everything they’ve got to make such touching TV. For casts who get along great, no one wants the experience on set to end, and throwing so much emotion into something definitely presents a challenge because it is draining. The final days of filming are always emotional. As a band, we had a lot of input on it and we really grew as friends and a family while creating it together. Stand Tall was a new song we’d gotten while we were in Vancouver that ended up getting cut because I couldn't sing it - it was too high at the time, but I can sing it perfectly now. It was really sad because we put so much effort and work into it, and it was also a good payoff.

It was really mentally draining and coming up to be the last week of us filming, so those feelings were 100% real and it was our last performance together. The most challenging scene had to be Stand Tall and the alleyway scene. Here’s what she told me in an interview with CinemaBlend: Madison Reyes mentioned the final song that is performed, along with a monologue scene where Julie has a moment of reflection that takes place in an alleyway outside the theater where the band performs.

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The scenes discussed are in the Season 1 finale episode, but no plot details are spoiled, so feel free to read on if you haven’t finished the season yet.

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