Chelsea Tavares
Young, Sexy, Fast Rising Hollywood Starlet!
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| Chelsea Tavares (Photo Courtesy ABC Family Network) |
“You
either have it or you don’t” is an old cliché that has been quoted in show
business since the dawn of its beginnings. The general consciences amongst the
major studio power brokers as well as the general ticket buying public has long
supported the notion that an entertainer, a female in particular, who has the
acting, dancing and singing talent on top of charm and sensuousness with fine,
sexy looks to mach is a complete dream package in Hollywood! Given the right
projects with the proper strategic marketing and promotion, one has the
ingredients of a mega-star and the monetary rewards that accompany it. Young
acting starlet Chelsea Tavares is such a package described above and is rising
fast to the forefront of Hollywood superstardom!
Her current role as Jordan Randall on the
ABC Family network drama series “Make It
Or Brake It” has her playing a gymnast who is an outcast and rebel. Tavares
gets to showcase many personality sides with this role i.e., sexy vixen, sassy
“B”, serious competitor, friend and enemy. Tavares is a veteran actress
starting as a child modeling and doing commercials. She starred on stage in “The Lion King” as young Nala and may
be best known as Cranberry on the Nickelodeon series “Unfabulous.” She also starred as Autumn on “Just Jordan” another Nickelodeon show and had a recurring role as
Andrea on The CW series “Ringer.”
Tavares other guest roles include “CSI
Miami,” “The District” and the
film “Fright Night” to name some. She
has been named on yours truly, “Rych
McCain’s Annual Top Ten List of Hollywood’s Most Talented Youth and is a
permanent member of Rych McCain’s Media Family.
Tavares plays the role of a gymnast so
convincingly you may assume that she has actually competed in real life. Does
she have an athletic background? She lets out a giggle, “No I just danced. I
took musical theater in high schooland middle school and I played softball but
not in a league. I just danced.” What roll of the dice landed Tavares the part
of Jordan especially being Black? She reflects, “You know what. When I first
auditioned for it, I didn’t think I was going to get it at all. I just thought
‘I don’t think I booked it.’ I had that feeling and then they called me and I
got it. It was only for three episodes but they kept me for the rest of the
season. Yeah, it was exciting because I didn’t know that they were going to go
Black! And then when I booked it I went oh my God, the coach is Black too. So I
said OK, bring color to the TV show. I’m really excited about that. Her
character is really dramatic and very beautiful.”
Tavares was stage trained with a real life
gymnastics coach to get the look and feel of a real gymnast. As she put it, “I
have to run correctly, land correctly and I have a stunt double who was an
Olympian. So how much of the real actor do we see in the routines vs. the stunt
double? Tavares laughs, “When ever you see me on the floor and the beam, that’s
me because its mostly dance choreography until you see the tumbles and flips in
the air, then that’s the stunt double. The bars? You’ll just see me land
because I can’t do everything on the bars.” Doing a physical role is way
different than one that is straight dramatic. How does Tavares run it down? She
becomes animated, “It is difficult. It is difficult because you have to learn
your lines. Say I’ll do my choreography right? You have to learn all of that,
afterward make sure the moves are right, make sure I’m looking like a gymnast,
hold my hands as a gymnast than on top of that, go into my lines and do it at
the same time. So you have to mult-task and it is kind of hard but you get used
to it when you are training everyday. The girls taught me a lot of stuff to.
They were really sweet.” The show airs on Mondays 9/8C on the ABC Family
Network.
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Rych McCain Media/Syndication tm
(You DID Hear It From Me!)
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