In recent years ABC Family, now Freeform, has really ramped up its family dramas and comedies appealing to wider audiences than their original hit series. One of the most popular and successful of these newer series has been The Fosters. The series premiered on June 3, 2013 and has now had five seasons and has been receiving praise for its portrayal of a multi-ethnic and blended family raised by a lesbian couple, earning it two GLAAD Media Awards and one Teen Choice Award. Here are 10 things you didn’t know about the popular series:
10. Getting Started
Maia Mitchell has starred as Callie Jacob since the series began, and she revealed that after her first day, she wasn’t sure if she wanted to stay on the show. “My first day on set we were shooting the scene where I’m walking through juvie and I get beat up, and it was the first thing I did and I was terrified. I got there at like 4 a.m. and we were shooting in this old, abandoned, haunted jail. We got in there and at the last minute, they were like, ‘Now everyone just run in!’ And I’m literally on the ground getting pummeled by all these people because I’m trying to be tough because I’m playing this tough girl when really I’m like this little actress-girl from Australia. I was so scared!” she told Buzzfeed. “I had like a huge bruise on my arm, and the bruises on my back when I’m in the bathtub, they were all real! It was terrifying. I was like, ‘Mom, I don’t wanna do this anymore I wanna come home and go to University.’ It was intense!”
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