Tony Farinella, who did a great interview with Larisa a couple months ago, just interviewed Hilary Angelo (who played Kelly Phillips in ‘The Secret World of Alex Mack’ credited as Hilary Salvatore). Here’s the full interview. Of interest here are her comments about Larisa:
TONY: Let’s talk a little bit about Alex Mack. I interviewed Larisa Oleynik a couple of months ago when the First Season of the show came out on DVD …
Hilary Angelo: Oh, really? I didn’t know that.
TONY: It came out in September, actually …
Hilary Angelo: I’ll have to buy that.
TONY: We also see Jessica Alba in the First Season.
Hilary Angelo: It’s funny, because she got Flipper, which is this show in Australia, and they needed to replace not her character, but a character like her, and that’s where I came in. So, I actually came on the Second Second after Jessica left.
TONY: When you first met Larisa Oleynik, what were your first impressions of her? When I interviewed her, I was blown away by her personality. She’s always laughing and full of life. She’s just a sweetheart.
Hilary Angelo: I haven’t seen Larisa in, I’d say, ten years. I loved that girl. If I saw her today, I would bear-hug her. She’s just so full of life and such a wonderful spirit, and we had such a wonderful time working together. And my first day on set, she was so welcoming and sweet, and we became obsessed with No Doubt, when No Doubt first came out. And we were both huge Gwen Stefani fans. She and I were good friends, and we just lost touch when we went to school, to university. But I would love to run into her again. She’s such a great person.
TONY: Do you have a favorite episode from your time on Alex Mack?
Hilary Angelo: There’s one that we did the last season, I think it was the last season, and it was about camping. Alex Mack and Kelly become camp counselors, my character was named Kelly, and we become camp counselors in some horrible overnight camp in the woods, and everything that could possibly go wrong goes wrong. And we end up trapped in a tree that a bear chased us up. We actually had a lot of fun on that, because it was just her and I, and we got to hang out the whole weekend and be silly. She’s such a silly girl, and I love, love her.