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Y&R’s King Gets Nasty!

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On THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS, Summer continues to be tormented by the mysterious murder of her hubby Austin, but her portrayer, Hunter King, takes on the role of tormentor in the big screen movie, A Girl Like Her, which opens nationwide in select theaters on Friday, March 27.

King portrays Avery, a teenager viciously bullying a former friend, Jessica (played by Lexi Ainsworth, GENERAL HOSPITAL’s ex-Kristina.) “It was a really difficult role [because of the subject matter], but most of the film was improvised, which was a really different way to shoot a film,” shares the Emmy winner. “The director [Amy S. Weber], who also wrote the film, gave us an outline and an idea of what she wanted in the scene. We’d brainstorm about what she wanted for us to achieve and portray, and then we’d go into the scene and improvise. It really added a different element to it, and was something that I’ve never done before. It made the film so real!”

So real, in fact, that King admits she had a hard time letting the role go when she left the studio. “It was very difficult and upsetting,” she concedes. “But it’s also so important. Everybody, of course, wants to solve bullying. What’s so different about this film is that it doesn’t just show [bullying] from the victim’s point of view, or the bully’s side or the bystander’s side. As the director explained it, people who were [emotionally] hurt end up hurting other people because that’s their defense mechanism. They don’t want to feel the pain, so they wind up hurting other people to make themselves feel better. That’s why we need to promote dialogue about it.”

Hear more from the actress about the challenging role in the issue of CBS Soaps In Depth on sale now, and check out the film by clicking here.

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