ABC News98%
Laura Marano on why ‘Original Sound’ will remind fans of Disney’s ‘Austin & Ally’ 80%
4/25/2026, 12:33:19 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Biased Writer Voice, and Unattributed Quote, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 17% saturation with 174 hits. Analysis detected 1,485 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,025 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 72.1% and a BS Rank of 80% (3,488 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 79.30% of the video peer group.
Blending her artistry, acting, singing, and songwriting, Laura Marano is ready to show off her latest project.
Marano first made her mark as pop star Ally Dawson on the Disney Channel hit Austin & Ally, and has since led a string of romantic comedies including The Perfect Date, Choose Love, and The Royal Treatment.
Now, in the film Original Sound, Marano plays Ryan Reed, a pop star accused of stealing a song from beatmaker Danny Solis.
Set against the backdrop of New York City, the film dives into the music industry as the two are forced into an unlikely creative partnership.
I had a chance to speak with Laura.
Let's take a look.
>> [music]
[music]
[laughter]
>> That's it.
That is it.
Yep.
Joining us now is actress, singer, and songwriter Laura Marano.
Thank you so much for being here.
>> Thank you so much for having me.
>> Absolutely.
Fans who grew up watching you on Austin & Ally on the Disney Channel.
By the way, my brother and sister say hi.
>> Okay, love that.
>> Big fans.
>> Please tell them I say hi.
>> When I texted them and and told them that I was that we were speaking today, they said, "Oh my gosh, I used to watch her on the Disney Channel all the time."
Yeah.
>> They're uh 25 and 23.
>> It is so wild the reach that that show has because I have 9-year-olds still coming up to me.
Like today, I just heard from a 9-year-old.
And then I have like people who work at the bank who are bank tellers telling me I'm like their childhood.
And I'm like, "We didn't know that you were a bank teller."
That can't That doesn't make sense in my head that I'm your childhood.
Bizarre.
>> lives on.
So, when folks hear the premise behind this new movie Original Sound, they see some parallels to Austin & Ally.
Did that cross your mind when you were when you were first reading the script?
Absolutely.
So, it's based on off-Broadway play, which already I was so excited about the prospect of doing something that was based on a play.
I'm like dying to do Broadway dying to do off-Broadway.
And then when I read the script and knew the premise, I was like, "Wait, I've kind of done this before, but I was the other side.
My song was the one being stolen."
So, this time I kind of get to be a little bit of the villain.
I get to be the thief, which I was really excited to do.
And be blonde.
Yeah, yes, yes, we saw the hair.
It looks good on you.
So, what was it like just kind of in just embracing this character?
So, walk us through that process.
>> You know what?
It's in a lot of ways, it was really um Yeah.
I think I put a lot of my own experience into Ryan from my experience in the music industry and my first, you know, record label when I was 19, 20.
Um
I think that you have so much pressure that is on you from so many different sides, the record label side, the management side, the audience side, that you sometimes maybe end up doing things that you shouldn't have done.
I I don't know if I necessarily stand by her choice to steal another artist's song, but I do think she was very much um inspired to do that because she felt like Danny was like a critic of hers.
So, this is a girl who is projecting a lot of her own insecurities and feelings and using this one song as an outlet to hopefully make it in the music industry.
>> Yeah.
I think it's really interesting that both characters come together to then collaborate.
And what was that like working with your co-stars in this movie?
>> is awesome.
Like I absolutely had so much fun working with him and I I feel like David Lambert, Eric Stoltz, who I am obsessed with, and then Constantine, who also is the, you know, record producer part, you know, those are my kind of like three counterparts in the film.
And all of them, I think, brought such a different side of Ryan.
Um working with David was really fun on the creative side cuz he's so creative.
He's like a really talented piano player.
So, that part was really fun.
Eric and I, I think, really understood each other from like a an acting dynamic of we always loved to rehearse.
We were rehearsing on our weekends.
And Constantine, him and I really like bonded over our experience in the record industry and music industry.
And which is he's so, so lovely.
So, all of it was really, really fun to collaborate.
>> Yeah.
And you taped here in New York City.
Is that right?
What was that like?
How did the setting influence the the storyline?
>> fun.
Oh my god.
Well, I have family here.
I have family in the Bronx who I absolutely love and adore.
And then we filmed the movie in Brooklyn like Bushwick area.
Like deep, deep Bushwick.
>> [laughter]
>> So, I had never spent that like extended period of time in New York before, and it was the fall, and I was blonde, and I was just like at one point I was like I remember walking and I had a dress and it was like blowing in the wind and I'm like, "Do I move here?
Maybe I move here."
It's such an inspiring city, and I think for this story in particular, it was the best possible location to film it in.
>> Yeah.
And you also co-wrote music for the film.
What was that process like?
What was the challenge of creating songs that serve both the story and the character?
Oh, it was so interesting because I collaborated with our music producers, Eric and Glenn, and I
Analysis
Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.