13-year-old star talks about balancing school and work<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Lie Shia Ong<\/em> She\u2019s the 13-year-old behind the voice of one of Disney\nJunior\u2019s most popular shows, \u201cDoc McStuffins,\u201d and when she\u2019s not getting\nanimated, Kiara Muhammad balances going to school while working in\nentertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN TV spoke with Muhammad about the new winter-themed episode of the show premiering Friday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. ET\/PT on Disney Junior, and she also gives her advice to youngsters who want to try to get on a Disney show themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN TV: What can you tell us about the new episode Friday<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kiara Muhammad: This is the episode where Chilly actually needs to get a checkup. It\u2019s not a new toy, it\u2019s just Chilly the Snowman. He gets cold outside because he thinks since he\u2019s a snowman, and he\u2019s always thinking he\u2019s a real snowman, [and] that he can stay outside with all of the other snowmen we made. He ends up getting cold!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Was it pretty fun doing\na winter-themed episode with Christmas just around the corner, or did you actually\nrecord this episode during the summer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I think we did the episode towards the winter. Maybe it\nwas like the end of November, so it was pretty close. So yes, it was cool to do\nit around the same time as Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is your\nfavorite part about being an animated character?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You see a different face, but you hear your voice. That kind\nof makes me look at it a different way because I hear my voice, but I don\u2019t see\nmy face, so it\u2019s a little weird, but it\u2019s cool at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is your character,\nDoc McStuffins, anything like you in real life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I think yeah, because when I was 6, I wanted to be so\nmany things: An actress, a singer, a dancer. And Doc wants to be a doctor, and\nshe knows it. She\u2019s already helping her toys, so I think we both have that striving\nquality. We wanna do what we wanna do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I read you\u2019re an\nhonor student. What do your classmates think of you lending your voice to an\nanimated character on TV?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A lot of them\u2014only my friends know\u2014my classmates, I\u2019ll tell them, and they\u2019ll be \u201cwhat?\u201d But my friends they\u2019re always, \u201cI watched your show this morning before coming to school. It was the one where\u2026\u201d And I\u2019ll be \u2018OK, thanks,\u2019 so it\u2019s just funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is it hard balancing going to school and also working in entertainment?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah, sometimes it\u2019s hard. I\u2019ll have a test or a quiz or something,\nand I miss a couple days of school, so then I have to make up that work that I\u2019m\nalready doing that day. Sometimes it can be a handful, but I make it work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How do you find\ntime to sleep?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, my mom always makes sure I got to bed by 10 [laughs]. So, if I have a job after school, I make sure I do my homework right when I get home, and then I eat dinner and go to sleep. So we just have a schedule that we try to make sure I get enough sleep for the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The show is in its\nsecond season and there\u2019s been so many great guest stars already. Do you have\none or two celebrities you\u2019d just love to see on the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, I love Jaden Smith, so I\u2019d like him to come on, and\nmaybe he could play my guy cousin instead of a girl cousin. I always want\u2014who\u2019s\nthe guy from \u201cThe Office\u201d?\u2014but he was in \u201cSomething Borrowed\u201d (John Krasinski).\nMaybe I go to an amusement park and he\u2019s just one of the guys there who helps,\nor I find a toy. I feel like since he\u2019s a funny guy\u2014he could make the character\nreally funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of your fans,\nAriel, wanted me to ask what your advice is for kids who want to get on a Disney\nshow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Make sure you stay in acting classes. For Disney, it\u2019s a\ndifferent type of acting, where you have to have a lot of energy. A lot of\npeople have trouble keeping up the energy up the whole way through a scene. So,\nI would say, keep with the acting classes and make sure you keep your energy up\nwhen you do the scene. And just don\u2019t let anyone tell you, you can\u2019t go on a\nDisney show, because you can if you just practice and work hard at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any message you\nhave for the parents whose kids watch the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep telling your kids to watch the show. It\u2019s a really\nfun show! I love doing it. They love it, too, so I\u2019ll do it as long as they\nlove it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDoc McStuffins\u201d airs weekdays at 10 a.m. ET\/PT and weekends at 7:30 a.m. ET\/PT on Disney Channel and also on Disney Junior.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 13-year-old star talks about balancing school and work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-msn-entertainment","category-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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