It was years later, after her injury waylaid her ambitions to be a professional ballerina, that she tried out acting. “It was so strict, and all the girls were strong and dedicated with this razor-sharp focus I’d never had before.” “I remember thinking, Wow, this is really serious,” she said. and at the School of American Ballet in New York, where she remembers committing to dance at 10 years old, immediately after she was scolded for eating a bowl of pasta in the school’s lobby. She later trained under Yvonne Mounsey in L.A. “She’s bored and sarcastic and dark without being the conventional mean girl.” Telles has been studying ballet since she was 5, beginning when she lived in Brazil (her first language is Portuguese). “Sasha doesn’t necessarily think ballet is awesome,” she said. Telles appreciates that she isn’t asked to portray the typical type A ballerina she’s trained among for years. And in the show’s first season (which ends with tonight’s finale, airing on ABC Family at nine), Sherman-Palladino has singled out Telles to turn all of that teen turmoil into dance, assigning her beautiful, expressive numbers that are alternately angry and sad. “Hopefully, I’m less blunt.” Sasha is a caustic cynic one minute ( berating cheerleaders and jocks doomed to peak in high school), fumbling adolescent the next. Amy Sherman-Palladino’s hyperliterate series follows an out-of-sorts Las Vegas showgirl (Broadway’s Sutton Foster) who winds up teaching dance in a sleepy California coastal town, but Telles has emerged as the show’s standout ballet student, a character as naturally graceful on the dance floor as she is at dressing down fools. However crushingly felt, Telles’s self-awareness of her own teen angst is one reason why she’s so good at playing the simultaneously self-assured and anxious Sasha on Bunheads. In my seventeen years, I’ve gone through so much.” She recalled burying herself in Pablo Neruda, then smiled and sighed mock dramatically. Then I discovered sadness,” she told Vulture, blushing into her lunch at the Sunset Gower studio commissary in between scenes last month. Somewhere in her East Village apartment (where she lives when not shooting the series in L.A.), Telles has journals full of what she calls “sad poetry,” written after labral tears and tendonitis in her hips forced her to stop dancing. At only 17 years old, actress and dancer Julia Goldani Telles, who plays mouthy ballerina Sasha on ABC Family’s Bunheads, has known great heartache.
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