Aubrey Peeples, who plays Layla Grant on ABC’s Nashville, had a big decision to make before taking the role on the show. Layla reveals, “When I graduated high school, when I was graduating I got into Harvard and decided to put it off. It was a very hard decision but I knew that I wanted to go out to L.A. because I’d been going back-and-forth and had some minor success, and I knew that I just needed to do that at this time in my life, and it’s worked out very well in my favor. But I deferred for a year and then when I was packing up my apartment to go, after a year, I got the call that I booked ‘Nashville’, so I had to put it on hold again.”
If you’re a longtime fan on Nashville, then you may recall, they actually let a little bit of reality bleed into fiction when they wrote it into the script that Layla delayed going to Harvard twice on the show. In real life, Aubrey hopes to actually be able to make it to Harvard one day. She says, “I don’t know when I’ll be able to go, but it’s still a huge goal of mine. I’d love to one day.”
New episodes of NASHVILLE return to ABC on Wednesday, March 16th.
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Nashville – Aubrey Peeples Harvard :49
“I would love you, yeah, absolutely. So, when I graduated high school, when I was graduating I got into Harvard and decided to put it off, it was a very hard decision. But, I knew that I wanted to go out to L.A. because I’d been going back-and-forth and had some minor success, and I knew that I just needed to do that at this time in my life, and it’s worked out very well in my favor, but I deferred for a year and then when I was packing up my apartment to go, after a year, I got the call that I booked ‘Nashville’, so I had to put it on hold again. I don’t know when I’ll be able to go, but it’s still a huge goal of mine. I’d love to one day. But yeah, and they wrote it into my character’s story line, that she had put off Harvard twice, which I read that in the script and I was like, ‘Oh, God’, and now every time I say something stupid on set people literally say their lines to my character, they’re like, ‘Oh, come on Harvard’, and so it’s very weird, but it’s really cool.”
AUBREY PEEPLES – THE FACTS
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/aubreypeeples
FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/AubreyPeeples/
INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/heypeeplesitsaubrey/?hl=en
BIRTH DATE: November 27, 1993. (She’s 21)
HOMETOWN: Lake Mary, Florida
ABC’s NASHVILLE CHARACTER: She plays Layla Grant.
ACTING CREDITS INCLUDE: She guest-starred in Drop Dead Diva, Burn Notice, Austin & Ally, Grey’s Anatomy, and had a recurring role on Necessary Roughness. Peeples will star in a leading role in the upcoming musical fantasy comedy-drama film, Jem and the Holograms.
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Aubrey Peeples @aubreypeeples 11h11 hours ago
Already missing hosting the @jcpenney lounge at the #cmaawards https://instagram.com/p/91BLoPx-PC/
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Aubrey Peeples @aubreypeeples Nov 6
With the one and only @scottborchetta at the @bigmachine #cmaawards after-party https://instagram.com/p/9v3wi5R-JK/