Miley Cyrus is a popular name in the music industry. But what gave her this stardom was her role in the Disney Channel TV show Hannah Montana which legitimised her as an actress and singer. But for the past couple of years Cyrus has kept herself at bay from any acting roles. Is she not active in Hollywood anymore?
Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana
Cyrus played the role of Hannah Montana/Miley Stewart which catapulted her image from being only Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter to a teen pop star. The series became very popular and had multiple crossovers with other Disney shows. She also had her own feature movie Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Cyrus’s next movie was the romantic drama The Last Song which was based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. This was where she met Liam Hemsworth, her future ex-husband. This was a movie in which she was playing a major role and separate from her image of Hannah Montana. She moved on from her Disney persona. Unluckily she couldn’t keep the momentum from her past roles.
Is her true calling music?
Miley Cyrus has always been a musician, even her character on Hannah Montana was a pop star in disguise living a double life, juggling her normal life and celebrity life. She was herself on the show as well as showing her talented vocals. Later on too Cyrus expressed her singing talents through her acting roles. She recorded the song When I Look at You for the movie The Last Song.
Miley Cyrus’s other films didn’t do so well on the box office and critically. Cyrus then worked on her music even more and established herself as a singer. She once stated that she wanted to quit Hollywood. She said that in an MTV show in 2013 that she would do music her whole life instead of her doing movies. But Cyrus has done one episode of Black Mirror in 2019 and played a role in Amazon miniseries Crisis in Six Scenes in 2016.