Only Murders in the Building is Selena Gomez's first television appearance since appearing in Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place.
Selena Gomez is returning to television after a hiatus that has only aided her development as an actress.
The 29-year-old singer's current role in the upcoming Hulu series Only Murders in the Building is her first on-screen appearance since she appeared in the Disney Channel comedy Wizards of Waverly Place from 2007 to 2012.
On Friday, Gomez said she's a much more "sophisticated" actress than she was when she first started in the business when asked about how the time off changed her as an actress during the Only Murders In the Building Television Critics Association press panel with costars Steve Martin and Martin Short.
She quipped, "I signed my life over to Disney at a very early age, so I had no idea what I was doing." "I didn't know what I was doing when I was a kid; I was just running around on set," she says. "Now I feel like a sponge, soaking up all the wisdom that I can."
The "Lose You to Love Me" singer made her acting debut on PBS' Barney & Friends from 2002 to 2004 before landing at Disney for a brief role in Hannah Montana from 2007 to 2008.
She starred with Jake T. Austin, David Henrie, Jennifer Stone, Maria Canals-Barrera, and David DeLuise in Wizards of Waverly Place as a series protagonist.
Only Murders In the Building, a Hulu original, stars Gomez as a tenant of an Upper West Side apartment building who partners up with two of her neighbors (Martin and Short) to figure out what happened to a neighbor who died suddenly.
"The level of sophistication of the material is the first reason why I wanted to do this," Gomez said of her latest role in the comedic murder-mystery, adding, "It's really nice to be back on TV and it's nice to be cast as my actual age, which never happens."
Her Only Murders In the Building costar Martin, 75, joked during the panel, "I'm dying to be cast as my actual age."
Gomez has acted in many films, including Spring Breakers, The Big Short, Fundamentals of Caring, and The Dead Don't Die, despite this being her first return to television since Disney.
She also executive produced Netflix's 13 Reasons Why and Living Undocumented, a docuseries about undocumented immigrants in the United States. Most recently, she debuted Selena + Chef, a new food program on HBO Max that examined her culinary abilities while holed down at home during the coronavirus epidemic.
The singer revealed to Vogue for its April cover story that she was concerned about being typecast after becoming famous as a Disney Channel kid star.
She told the publication earlier this year, "I constantly live with this terrible sensation that people still see me as this Disney princess."
Going back to her early career, Gomez revealed that portraying Alex Russo on Wizards of Waverly Place made her feel like she had to "be flawless." "That was my job in a way," she added. Only Murders in the Building comes on Hulu on Aug. 31. "You've considered figure kids look up to, and they take it seriously there."
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