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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Miley Cyrus Reveals Why She Hasn’t Acted Since Hannah Montana Even Though She Wants To · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Miley Cyrus got her start as a child actor, most
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  Speaker 2: famously in her breakout lead role in Hannah Montana, but
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  Speaker 2: it's been years since she's accepted another acting gig, focusing
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  Speaker 2: instead on her thriving music career, and she tells The
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  Speaker 2: New York Times there's two reasons for that. She says
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  Speaker 2: she was always a singer first and foremost, and got
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  Speaker 2: the role of Hannah Montana because of that. They needed
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  Speaker 2: a kid who could really belt it out. Miley certainly
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  Speaker 2: fit the bill, but she adds that the main reason
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  Speaker 2: she stayed away from acting since is because the right
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  Speaker 2: role hasn't found its way to her, saying, I became
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  Speaker 2: an actress so I could bring Hannah to life, and
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  Speaker 2: then I just never found another fitting role. Because I'm
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  Speaker 2: such a character myself to find something that can absorb
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  Speaker 2: me completely is really challenging. So I challenge every writer
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  Speaker 2: and director out there to bring one to me, because
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to do it. I either want to be
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  Speaker 2: myself because I'm really good at that, or I want
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  Speaker 2: to throw me away because I'm good at that too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not good in the middle, and that's Miley Cyrus There,
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  Speaker 2: whose new album Something Beautiful is out now.
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