Elisha Cuthbert Reflects on Her Journey From Background Extra to TV Lead — buzzfeed.com

Cuthbert made her screen debut as an extra in a 1996 episode of this spooky Canadian kids show before joining the cast full time — as a member of The Midnight Society — in 1999. The show, which aired in the U.S. on Nickelodeon, has become, in retrospect, a who’s who of emerging Canadian actors that included Ryan Gosling, Neve Campbell, Hayden Christensen, and Emily VanCamp. “Every actor trickled through there because they needed so many people to fill in those stories,” Cuthbert told BuzzFeed News at The Langham Hotel in Pasadena, California, during the Television Critics Association winter press tour. “It’s just crazy how many actors were on that show. I had done it before I became a campfire kid — and I’m going to try and talk about this with a serious face — I was in one of the stories when I was younger, so later on, to come back and become a campfire kid was like a dream.”

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