Got a SecretBehind-the-Scenes Secrets You Never Knew About ‘Pretty Little Liars’

Lucy Hale was the first Liar to be cast.

“I was very intrigued by Aria but I also loved Hanna; that type of character was one I hadn’t tackled before,” the actress told Cosmopolitan in 2017.  Lucy never actually auditioned for the role because, “We immediately thought she would make a great Aria,’ PLL showrunner I. Marlene King explained.

Troian constantly spoiled the ‘PLL’ ending, but no one believed her.

“I never had to lie to protect the biggest secret on the show. I told the truth and hid in plain sight,” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2019. “Every time I was asked, ‘Who’s A?’ I would say, ‘It’s me,’ and everyone would laugh and think I was joking because Spencer Hastings would never be A.”

As fans know, the final A ended up being Spencer’s twin sister, Alex Drake.

Toby Cavanaugh was almost killed off after season 1.

After Marlene saw the fan reaction to Keegan’s role, she decided to let Toby’s character live for the rest of the season, according to E! News.

DiLaurentis is an anagram for ‘Liars United.’

Alison’s last name actually had a major meaning for the show, which a fan pointed out via Twitter in August 2020.

“Alison’s last name DiLaurentis, it’s an anagram of ‘Liars United,'” the social media user wrote.

‘PLL’ and ‘Gilmore Girls’ have the same set.

Gilmore Girls cocreator Dan Palladino revealed during a 2016 interview with Entertainment Weekly that Stars Hollow was converted to Rosewood before the Gilmore Girls reboot.

“I think the first weird part was when they started to rebuild Stars Hollow on the backlot in Burbank. It’s basically a shell now, it’s the ‘Pretty Little Liars’ backlot,” he said. “So we had to transform it.”

Hanna and Lucas’ lake scene in season 2 wasn’t filmed entirely on a lake.

“That [scene] was really interesting because we filmed it in a couple of different parts. We filmed the wide shots on the lake. So, we did that actually on the water and Ashley fell into the water. I wanted to fall into the water, but they didn’t let me,” Brendan Robinson, who played Lucas, told J-14 exclusively. “Then on a different day, for the closeup shots, we filmed that inside of soundstage. They basically recreated it to make it look like we were on the water with reflective mirrors to make it look like there was water reflecting on our faces. It was a really cool process. It’s sort of like movie magic at its best.”

Kylie Jenner was almost in a ‘PLL’ episode.

During a 2015 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the reality star had the opportunity to guest star in the show, but turned it down because she didn’t want to talk about work at the time.

Lucy’s iconic ‘Shh’ at the end of the opening credits wasn’t scripted.

“[My] shushing the camera was actually a spur-of-the-moment idea that happened to make the final cut,” she told Cosmo in 2017.

The cast shipped #Haleb over #Spaleb.

When the cast reunited for a virtual reunion in May 2020, some of the cast revealed that they were not a fan of Spencer and Caleb’s love story. Ashley admitted she “hated” seeing them together while Tyler said that he was “obviously a #Haleb shipper, as they say.” But Troian said she thought some of the show’s best scenes came from #Spaleb.

“I still feel like some of the scenes that came out of it — like that scene between me, Ashley, and Tyler — I think it’s one of my favorite scenes,” she explained. “I think it was just wonderful material and it was so exciting to open up those sides of our characters.”

Sasha was 12 when she auditioned for the show.

Before she nabbed the role of Alison, Sasha was almost Hanna.

“I knew what Hanna was going to do and I was like, ‘Do we really want a 12-year-old doing those things?'” Marlene told  Variety in 2017. “But also, they can only work a certain amount of hours under the age of 16. So that’s when we just said she’s Alison. She read with a few of the girls as Alison, she was several years younger than all of them, but she scared the hell out of everyone in a good way.”

Sasha hated Alison DiLaurentis’ infamous yellow shirt.

Throughout the show, Alison was often seen wearing the same yellow tank top that she disappeared in.

“I personally hate that shirt and have from the beginning,” she said during an interview on The Talk in 2016. “There are 13 copies of that shirt, and I want to take all of them and like burn them.”