Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

'My sister Cynthia, she's a little more like Elizabeth, she's a little more soft-spoken, and I'm a little more I guess outgoing and aggressive.' 'We grew up And we grew up reading those books, and wherever we'd go around as kids, they'd be like 'oh it's the Sweet Valley High twins!' Finally one day we got a call about the audition and it was like, oh my god, this is like the perfect role for us.'ĭaniel says that even her and her sister's personalities matched up with their characters. 'Growing up as a twin, the #1 birthday present you get is a Sweet Valley High book,' Daniel says. It was a hit TV show in the mid 1990s.īrittany Daniel, who played Jessica Wakfield in the TV show opposite her twin sister Cynthia, says that the role was a natural fit for her as one-half of a blong twin duo. 'As a kind of mousey plain little girl growing up in the midwest, I thought the greatest thing I could aspire to was to be blond and beautiful, and have an alter ego who was also my best friend and be living in California.'Ĭody's film will be the second screen-adaptation of the series. She's now working on a movie adaptation of the original Sweet Valley series - and she calls it her dream project:īen Asen Francine Pascal is the creator of the Sweet Valley High series and its many spin-offs, including Sweet Valley Kids, Sweet Valley University and the Sweet Valley High television series. One of Pascal's early readers was Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. 'I just felt that that would be a lot of fun for them, to see what happened when these marvelous characters that they loved so much, became their age,' Pascal says. In it, the twins are now 27, and confronting very adult problems.

I would meet women in their late 20s or 30s, and when they found out who I was they became 16 again.'Īnd it's for these women that Pascal wanted to revisit the twins in a new book. Sweet Valley High creator Francine Pascal, now 72 years old, says, 'It's always surprised me how alive this series was. It is a morality play, albeit one soaked in Aquanet. Jessica, is the evil one, always trying to sabotage her sweet sister. If you've never read a Sweet Valley High book, this is all you need to know: it's the story of two blond twins - Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield. Now, she's written an update called Sweet Valley Confidential, and the original series is set to become a major motion picture. It's been 10 years since author Francine Pascal wrote the last book.

Long before Twilight or Gossip Girl dominated the tween reading lists, there was one series from the 1980s that set the bar for mega-hits in young adult literature: Sweet Valley High.

Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal