{"id":66535,"date":"2025-09-16T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/66535\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:34:08","slug":"welcome-to-the-hayden-panettiere-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/66535\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Hayden Panettiere Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hayden Panettiere is one of those actors who everyone seems to have an anecdote about; specifically, about how her filmography has resonated in their life. For me, it\u2019s Remember the Titans, the now-iconic 2000 football tearjerker in which she played the precocious daughter of the team\u2019s coach. When I tell Panettiere<\/a>, now 36, that my younger brothers wore out our VHS tape of the film and still quote it (a lot) to this day, she immediately joins me in my nostalgia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is one of my favorite movies of all time, and the fact that I got to be a part of it is crazy,\u201d she says. \u201cUsually when you\u2019re in something, you don\u2019t really say that it\u2019s one of your favorites\u2026and it\u2019s one of my favorite experiences I\u2019ve ever had. If I could go back to that moment and be 10 again on that set, I would in the blink of an eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

Panettiere is doing more reminiscing these days about another of her best-known roles: as Juliette Barnes in the 2012 series Nashville, the massively popular ABC soap about rival country stars in Music City. All six seasons just dropped on Netflix this week, so she won\u2019t be alone in her nostalgia for long as veteran fans embark on a binge and new viewers discover it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople really, really loved that show,\u201d says Panettiere. \u201cThey loved the human stories, the fact that it gives you kind of a peek into this Hollywood life. It was a show that resonated with so many people, and I love hearing about how my character impacted people in general, but especially women and young women going through the tumultuous stuff that Juliet constantly had to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nashville nostalgia may be top of mind, but Panettiere is also looking toward the future a lot these days. The actor first appeared on screen at 11 months old and worked consistently until Nashville wrapped in 2018. It was only then that she took time off<\/a> for a few years\u2014her first real break in well, ever\u2014and focused on herself. At times, she worried she\u2019d never be able to fully return to the career she loved.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t plan on taking the amount of time off that I did,\u201d she says. \u201cI took the time off that I felt I needed. The longer you stay away from something, it becomes a much bigger deal when you do decide to step back into it. I was very nervous stepping back into it. I was nervous that I had lost my mojo, if you will, and that I wouldn\u2019t be able to do things like memorize lines as quickly as I did before. It\u2019s a muscle, just like anything else, and I spent years strengthening it. I was surprised to find out how quickly that muscle atrophied when I wasn\u2019t using it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until she began filming a starring role more than five years later, for the upcoming psychological thriller film Sleepwalker, that she began to, as she says, feel as if she got her mojo back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere is one of those actors who everyone seems to have an anecdote about; specifically, about how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,46660,19,17,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-66535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hayden-panettiere","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-netflix"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}