it influence plus there's this common among teenage girls three of them lying well the problem with our characters is they have to lie about a lot of really suge things like murdering people oh oh all next on larry king now . welcome to larry king our special guest destroy in dallas area the person writer and producer she appeared in the wigs series lauren about sexual assault in the middle and she is in her fifth season as the intelligent over achieving and determined spencer racing in a.b.c. family's head t.v. show pretty little liars that airs tuesday nights at eight eastern the shows recently picked up for two more years yes i never heard it shows they usually picked up for thirteen weeks one tell you how do they know to use i don't know how

they know it i guess that's just what they wanted to do it's a very rare thing and it's been unprecedented on our network especially most as on our network a.b.c. family go from the five seasons so for us to go fully to seven it's pretty incredible tell me about the show. the show is about four best friends who are high school who are held together by a sort of single queen bee frenemy named allison diller and tests and she's sort of takes these four very different girls and makes a friends group and then on one of the last summer parties before their sophomore year of high school she disappears and is found a year later murdered. and from her funeral which brings the four friends back together. the girls are stalked by this character who goes by the letter at a and they're blackmailed they're threatened they are bullied and we have

a new c a in the form of somebody in a hoodie it's always a mystery and a has been a number of people came out in season two as mona vander wall who is somebody that the girls all together kind of tortured and bullied in school but right now in our current season we discover that allison is not dead we've kind of brought her back to rosewood but we are still all being pursued by a why is this show so popular. i think for a number of different reasons i think i think the show is popular because it's it's beautiful it's fun it takes it both takes itself seriously and is also campy at times but i think truthfully it's popular because it touches on a truth of adolescence which is anxiety and paranoia you know the feeling when you were younger and you walked in a room and everybody all of a sudden shuts up and you go oh my god there we're talking about me and they hate me and everybody feels when they're growing up and as we become adults we go i'm

being ridiculous they probably weren't talking about me but to a young woman or a young man. that's their whole world and so in our world in pretty little liars we just sort of take that to the extreme and we go everybody was talking about you everybody is threatening your life everybody is coming after you understand more tweets about the show than and you have to show we oddly enough i mean i'm a huge game of thrones fan and i just found out that we actually are premier was more tweeted about than the finale of game of thrones and their adult viewers there are adult viewers they don't like to admit that they like to say that they're guilty pleasure our shows are their guilty pleasure but they watch well do you want an article in the hollywood reporter imploring the t.v. academy not to be ages when it comes to or do measuring teen shows teen shows whom did serious little is that this was what was interesting in this is what i was afraid to kind of write the article was i talked to the hollywood reporter and i said you know they asked me do you think that young young adult show should be

considered and i said well that's a really interesting question because well not often and you look at everything you know sitcoms are considered glee which is a musical is considered some teen shows like my so-called life was considered for an emmy but things like vampire diaries or gossip girl things that are seen as teen soap operas are often sort of swept aside as candace showed up in the know the shows never nominated this is the first year that we've kind of been. put up for consideration and so what i wanted to write about was not saying we deserve a nomination but shouldn't you on the academy if you're going to watch many different television shows and consider them within the context of their jhana shouldn't you watch our show and consider it within the context of its genre is that was the mood to be on a team should absolutely the way why well mostly because i have a lot of twitter followers and it's sort of like a popularity contest people are more interested often in your fashion or your hair rather than the work that you're doing as an actor or on our show the writers and

the directors and the cinematographers are doing amazing work and yet it's all sort of swept under the rug as fluff remain troy around the neighborhood of a million troy troy and it's an old family name from my my great great grandmother and it means woman of troy to trust him ha ha ha is twitter and instagram important to the show it's crucial to the show because because we i think the reason our show is so successful is that we came out in a time when twitter was just getting its legs and all of a sudden there was this world in which you could our show would air and people could talk about it at the same time and our show was very sensationalized things happen that are crazy and you know out of left field and obviously bad people go but dead people come back to life people get killed off and you want to be able to not have the water cooler talk tomorrow but with twitter in that instant so my

character is shot and all of a sudden everybody on twitter who's watching the show all over the world from israel to brazil can talk to each other and go oh my god spencer was just shot and it's this very different thing rather than the next day coming to your work and going on and could you believe it when spencer was shot it is more immediate thing that the book. how did i get the part. i auditioned i actually told my agents i had just graduated from college from theater school at u.s.c. and i grew up in television my parents were both creators of television and as an act of rebellion i didn't watch t.v. and my goal was to go to new york and become a theater and film actress. and it was actually the first pilot that i auditioned for i was doing a play at the geffen playhouse and i was concerned i was just thinking that i was going to move to new york and there was this or i didn't give you additional they my agents convinced me they were like look we think this show's going to be

a huge hits they were right but they were like you know it just it's going to be good just audition go get seen by these people you're still you just graduated it's important for you to go out and get your sea legs and i went in and i read the script i thought it was interesting i knew the character because i was an overachiever in school and i thought i definitely know this girl but i thought they'll never cast me in a million years so i just went in and had fun in the end they gave me a callback and i was like really and then they gave me another one and another one and and then i got the part but i still sort of completely disbelief i was like you guys are totally wrong you don't want me this is wrong you still want to do theater absolutely who joins who in the woods. i was on my hiatus which is rather small and so i don't get to do any other work which is kind of why i started writing and producing on my own time and a friend who directed the pilot leslie linka gladder. and several of the finales of the show and basically convinced me to do the show when i was nervous because i was like i don't know if i want to do t.v.

she called and she said i think this will really change your life and she called me and she said i want you to read a script and i read it it was thirty pages long it was one of the most incredible scripts that i'd ever read it was for a young woman in her twenty's in the military and i thought on never gets a play a role like this and she said well look i want you to play it and i said yes absolutely she said great we start shooting the day after tomorrow and this is like thirty pages of story monologues and i had no idea anything about the military the way a soldier should stay and any idea i only knew what about rock in afghanistan and i did it all you niggas recently been photographed. g.q. there it is there's a photo that doesn't slug fuku is it was photo shopped right right and that means they all had to be took away blemishes why was that what was the big deal is in the dome all the time well that was my point was you know everybody here deciding that

fans criticized it many people on on the web criticized it and said you know you guys are supposed to be role models for young women how could you do this that was photo shopped and really the problem that people had was that it was sexualized not photoshop because we are photo shopped on the poster of our show which is something that actually benson and i have used our social media accounts to talk about to say that even to the point we didn't like it we said we are being overly photo shopped and this is giving a bad impression on the young girls who watch our show now this is a men's magazine we're in it for a reason in knots that we are attractive women and i can tell you that the women that you see in that photo look like that in real life i work with some of the most beautiful women in television and the fact that people were giving us flack for being photo shopped when everybody is photo shopped i just it didn't sit right with me i felt like it was propagating a lie you said the part you play as a new type casting did you have body issues and control issues as a kid definitely would would pump and would be good to go to i i went through an

eating disorder and the big thing for me that i found interesting about going through this and then coming into a world where a lot of i saw a lot of actresses doing it and a lot of the press was about oh they want to be skinny and there's a lot of pressure to be skinny and i'm a very slim person i was a dancer growing up and it's not really for me when i went through it about. wanting to look thin it was more about control it was more about the frustration and rage those that i felt as a young woman in the only way i could show it to the world was by literally making my body into a living. protests but it's something that i have spoken about the lucy hale is spoken about because she went through a similar problem you have any hesitation about speaking up of course of course i do because because it's often sensationalized and that was my problem with when i spoke about it in seventeen magazine i knew i wasn't going to lie to them you know

they asked me what i was like when i was seventeen and i wasn't going to say i was great because i was and i was suffering from a mental disorder but what i so often find is that it becomes about the facts how much weight did you lose how were you treated where you hospitalized and that's not important to me what is important is to talk about the feelings to talk about the help that young girls and young men who have this problem can get if they find that they're suffering how did you defeat the problem. interventions interventions on behalf of my friends my teachers my parents and eventually i was a very smart girl and i convinced them all that i would be fine and i could do it on my own and i went away to vassar college for a couple months and got sent home because i got too bad that was when everybody kind of went into lockdown and said you cannot lie to us again you cannot leave again you have to treat this and it was but they couldn't force phoebe you know and speaking with somebody who was an alcoholic and they said you know alcohol isn't

the problem is the solution to the problem and anorexia isn't the problem it's the solution of the problem so when somebody says ok i'm going to sit down with you and talk about what you're feeling what's causing you to not want to eat you start to begin to address the problem and then you can get back into healthy eating habits and then told you about abuse you you model you hope people. you think i hope i definitely hope i've been i've been put in a position of power and i would hope to give positive influence rather than negative influence. but. there's do the girls law and want yep that's their problem if they told the truth everything would be great and sunny and there'd be no conflict or drama and we would have wrapped up the show in one season. is this common among teenage girls do you think lying well the problem with our characters is they have to lie about a lot of a really huge things like murdering people. you know and so i do think that

it's a little bit more heavy i don't know with teenage girls i would hope that there's really truth telling would you always want to theaters that would you want to do a bunch will i want to get back to what i really message so much it's where my heart is in a live audience growing up in hollywood next don't go away. i marinate join me. for in-depth impartial and financial reporting commentary interviews and much much. only on bombast and only on. are you like me you want your comedy news and some t.v. what's your comedy news to be a bear fisted no holds barred fight to the dad. but the truth vampire fighting into

the necks of the corporate elite billionaire freaks while they're going. well that's what you get with my new show projected tonight. this was the washington well it's a miss that is being suggested that if you let. the media pander to talk received more and if there's actually a vacuum and doesn't do too much to add revenue we might attack our culture giant tits on a seventy six year old american farmer the studio fallout do you think this is going to the create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering the. america's the largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of the world breaking the set is mostly about alternatives to the status quo but one night the real alternatives to the points on the working poor

the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers in washington to wake up and start talking about the real causes a problem. we're back with troy and the i'm sorry one of the stars of the clear little liars on a.b.c. family just ended up with some years and enormous if you grew up in hollywood your father donald it was areal writer director producer the creators of his magnum p.i. n.c.i. is jack quantum leap in mother deborah brad a writer and producer you always automatically going into the business right well i was pretty much born on a sound stage and for me the question became if this is my world what space will i occupy in it we have brothers sisters i do and many of them are actors editors produce on t.v. of i'm one of nine nine yes that's

a little mormon my father's catholic got a good guess but he was remarried several times so i really only have one full brother then the rest are step and half sibling all close we're all very close the the the older siblings grew up in a very different world than we did so it's a whole range of personalities and and characters they would have ruled without hollywood world no they grew up in a trailer park in pennsylvania well so very very different what was it like as a child of showbusiness here the general image people would have is affected despoiled. i definitely was very fortunate to be born into a wealthy family but. my father he had a job to do you know i wasn't allowed to go up and and talk to him until he was done writing and then when we talked about his show it was a job that there weren't lavish parties i wasn't going out and getting you know

messed up at a young age because i wanted to be a successful and hardworking as my father and mother until you let your boyfriend who i know yes you do that do that it was hard work out in those of suits of suits yes did you meet him out of that. we went to u.s.c. but at different times and i met him over the course of many different occasions one of which he gave me the jack nicholson award for acting because he had won it when he went to u.s.c. but we really met when i was doing that play equivocation at the geffen playhouse and we did the play together and our characters fell in love and so did we and they have a date a date for a wedding no because we we live in two separate cities and we don't quite know how to plan a wedding three thousand miles is hardly worth he's in toronto they shouldn't how do you juggle it been carefully. a lot of flights a lot of flights we both spend so much time on airplanes but it's worth it our

weekends you know when we can are spent together and when we can't we try to catch up as much as we can both so career oriented do you see children in the future while there we've definitely you know i've only got two more years of my show and i don't know how long his show's going on but i definitely want a family i mean i was raised in a huge family i think families very important to us there's a lot that we both want to accomplish before we do that but i do know all of our friends are having kids and it makes us a little bit about working in the business has changed since you grew up in that. you know i don't know if i could really answer that because for me i watched my parents and their work in the industry and i really wasn't allowed to do to leave school finishing school was a really important thing to my family and they told me i had to finish college so even when i was acting growing up it was only done on winter or summer breaks so my room for six periods of real work was when i graduated college and it's been my

experience ever since so maybe the only thing i could say to that is twitter things like social media and this i wouldn't believe it wasn't there you know and there was this sort of mystery in this privacy that we loved about our greatest actors that we didn't know who they were so they could. these roles that were totally different and now we seem to be in this world where it's like i want to know everything about you i want to know what your natural hair color is how your left shoulder twitches and then when you play somebody completely different they go oh that's not you i don't believe it so i don't love that aspect of his she's gone privacies gone. but maybe we can get it back. it's been a learning experience especially for patrick and i being on show's been a learning experience about how much of our lives we share we both have social media we both love taking pictures on instagram and it's been about when that first came out and we were using it just like everybody else just like our friends taking pictures of everything except i was getting one hundred thousand comments from two point five million followers and they were getting thirty comments from their two

hundred followers i have a teenage boys you get this demon fourteen ok and i find something strange in your educated bright twenty eight year old thanks to you grew up in the business they're growing up in the business and they're both that leads they don't talk they don't talk they sit on their phones you know one up with a conversation where people are really bad at it these days. there and it's a muscle that we're not engaging and i think it's leading to a lot of really scary things like a lot of young people are resorting to violence to get out the aggression that they feel they can't put into words and into confrontations as a human face to face conflict so that doesn't say much for tomorrow does it well i don't know that it is going to get better i was going to get better as they grow up texting isn't there also a resurgence of analog you know i know my friends and i are kind of returning to records where returning to alarm to table you know reading i want to pick up

a book are small the pages i don't want to kindle sorry kindle but there is this sort of nostalgia for what came before us and what we're missing out on a hope you're right we too. with some social media questions first oh great thank you dre and tweets if you could maybe eighteen year old troy and what advice would you give or chill out just calm down and have some fun leave your room. troy infinity they will have your name but not what has been your favorite season to act in. oh wow it's a big toss up between three and four because in three i was very fortunate and the writers were kind enough to go with spencer into the world of mental ward because we had hospitalized mona one of the previous care one of the characters on our show and i felt that we were kind of treating the mental ward as an insane asylum where like nut jobs went and i kind of got frustrated and i said you know. mental illness

is a very real thing i have an experience with it and i would like and honestly i don't know why one of the girls isn't hospitalized at this point we as we go through enough stress and they were kind of to go you know what let's see what happens when spencer gets pushed too far and it was this wonderful season where i got to play all of these twists and turns so many ways the writers and i love the writers of my show and olsen a twenty one what do you do on set when you're not shooting. read write and joke around with the crew of the best troy in my hair who is the funniest person on the poor little liars that. it really varies everybody has a different sense of humor. i think all of us are funny in our own ways they keep me laughing after five years at mc i mean i mean three if you go back in time to any era which one would you choose whoa this is tough.

i'm so i love period films obviously i love theater i you know and i always say i would love to go back to shakespeare's day but i wouldn't really be allowed on stage being a woman. also a woman men played women and so maybe i would love to go back to the restoration where women were first taking the stage i would have loved to have been one of the first women to walk across the globe i would have been amazing and that we will gain if you only move a just conclusion who's the first boy you kiss ok the first boy who kissed me was it doesn't count his name was ben we went to go see the the rocketeer together and he kind of like it was a forced himself kiss it was very taken aback it was a good movie it was a really good movie i don't i liked it whatever have a bit him well ben and i actually we went to proms together hilariously we didn't see each other for eighteen years and then we ended up going to prom together and

it was just the weirdest set of circumstances and college high school. and he's a very very sweet boy but the first boy that i ever kissed and wanted to kiss was my still very dear friend ryan. it was like truth or dare but we kind of meant it was like twelve is there a theater world you'd love to play so many so many wow i am an absolute shakespeare freak you know i've always loved juliet but i've also always always loved lady macbeth but maybe had a gobbler time drive a lot of space travel this is so funny because i hear patrick's voice in my head like space travel space travel but for me i think of the time travel they were heroin in fiction. oh my gosh favorite heroine in fiction. and a current in. very good pretty good what super power would you like to have

definitely tell us with your telekinesis most similar to the character on pretty little liars and me. who is most different from the character on three little hours shay mitchell. if you could read only one of those who would it be. probably shakespeare favorite meal but i'm such a sucker for french toast i like french i love friends toast what with the with the syrup with syrup and whipped cream i'm like the worst reading yeah i say i like eat all the french toast and just put whipped cream on the syrup and my meat into like it's bad i'm addicted to it best thing about spencer's wardrobe. when i convinced mandy lion our costume designer to what spencer have nice socks and that's become like her thing now three things you'd take with you on a desert island three things i'd take well this is like two could i take like my i

pad and then have internet access of course you can am i doing a court all right i'd take my i pad so i could watch movies and read the plays and read things and then i would take a chapstick because i can't stand it when my lips are dry and then i'd take. my best friend patrick egypt has fallen to its knees was skill or talent would you like to learn. wow i don't know if i could possibly answer that i mean singing i want to speak different languages like my long enough proudest achievement proudest achievement you know so far it was when i wrote and produced and acted in my my own short film. favorite place the travel. i'm going to run till i heard say toronto yeah i gotta go there a lot well yeah it is a great city somewhere off the grid or new zealand that was maybe my favorite music

is on your i pod. it's a weird strange collection i've got everything from like kurt vile to definitely conor oberst one of my favorites elliott smith. but then i have like weird electronic dance music that was kind of like not your mind great medium is so wonderful to me to play i write you present because i know you like them. as a minute and. then you can talk about why we have to assume there has never been a bed and right never been we didn't i love. what it thanks. i want to thank my guests troy and. make sure to watch pretty little liars tuesday nights at eight on a.b.c. family and head over to our blog or a d.v.d. for more of troy and answer to your social media questions and remember you can find me on twitter with kings things you see an excellent.

technology innovations all the developments from around russia. the future of coverage. if. live.