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Hayden Panettiere pulled backmost nan curtain connected her “deeply uncomfortable” move pinch Connie Britton connected nan “Nashville” set.
In her caller “This Is Me: A Reckoning” memoir, Panettiere noted that her “character wasn’t intended to beryllium nan show’s prima — not moreover close.”
The 36-year-old added, “That grant went to Connie, whose Rayna Jaymes was successful nan twilight of her career, facing a melodramatic turning constituent acknowledgment to yours truly.”
Panettiere played state prima Juliette Barnes connected nan play series, which ran from 2012 to 2018, while Britton, 59, played rival vocalist James.
“Unfortunately, aft nan pilot, it was clear that my billing had gone measurement up,” nan “Heroes” alum recalled. “I went from possibly number 5 successful position of value to nipping astatine Connie’s heels.
She recalled being “deeply uncomfortable pinch this development.”
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Britton, her erstwhile co-star explained, was “in her 40s pinch 3 Emmy nominations nether her belt” and “was besides a caller mom.”
Panettiere wrote, “I was 23 years old. … This should person been her clip to shine, and while it was successful galore respects, I was terrified of making Connie interest that I — not my characteristic — was trying to compete pinch her.”
She went connected to picture erstwhile attempting to make it clear to Britton she had nary plans to “step connected her toes.”
The erstwhile soap prima remembered, “We were directed to saunter toward nan mic guidelines and—at nan aforesaid time—reach to drawback it. This would insinuate our characters’ rivalry.
“I ever made judge to drawback nan mic nether Connie’s hand, showing her I came successful bid and pinch respect. I don’t cognize if she noticed, but I did.”
Britton’s rep did not instantly respond to Page Six’s petition for comment.
Panettiere’s memoir, which besides name-dropped ex-boyfriend Milo Ventimiglia and much A-listers, deed shelves astir 1 twelvemonth aft she spoke to Entertainment Weekly astir moving pinch Britton.
When Panettiere’s characteristic acted “so passive-aggressive” to Britton’s successful their first segment together, she “kept apologizing.”
She recalled, “[I was] going, ‘I americium truthful sorry!’ Because that was our first acquisition together, and I didn’t want to measurement connected toes. Sometimes it gets real, very real, you know?'”
Clarifying that Britton was “amazing” and “so supportive,” Panettiere wrote, “It was difficult to play that sometimes, that competitiveness, wherever we were successful guidance and against each other.”
