Miley Cyrus was topped a Disney Legend on Sunday night time, and used the second to indicate some like to her Hannah Montana days.
At Disney’s D23 fan occasion in Anaheim, Cyrus was one among 14 honorees acknowledged for his or her affect on the corporate’s legacy. The star led the hit Disney Channel sequence for 4 seasons between 2006 and 2011, and took the stage after Lainey Wilson led a efficiency of her breakout music, “The Better of Each Worlds.”
“I’m positively going to cry,” Cyrus instructed the gang, admitting wrote two speeches for the night time: “One lengthy if I’m the badass that I’m imagined to be, and one quick, if I get scared.”
“In 2005, Disney was on a mission to rebuild and reimagine the corporate — that’s why they employed Bob Iger and me,” she joked. “I bear in mind this clearly as a result of it was in the course of the auditioning strategy of Hannah Montana. There was a buzz in that Burbank Disney workplace, the place it’s rumored they create all of us Disney youngsters. I positively wasn’t created in a lab and if I used to be, there will need to have been a bug within the system which brought on me to malfunction someplace between the years of 2013 and 2016. Sorry Mickey!”
Cyrus recalled the method of touchdown the gig and filming the early episodes of the present, which additionally required her to do performances as her pop star character earlier than anybody knew who she was.
“They gave away tickets on the Glendale mall the place I might have my first free live performance. The primary music I opened with was titled “That is the Life,” which after all nobody knew, as a result of in actuality I used to be somewhat woman in a blonde wig on the mall with a giant dream,” she recalled. “However in my coronary heart I used to be Hannah Montana, and I used to be so proud to be.”
Cyrus continued, “A little bit little bit of the whole lot has modified since that day, however on the identical time nothing has modified in any respect. I stand right here nonetheless proud to have been Hannah Montana as a result of she made Miley in so some ways. This award is devoted to Hannah and all of her superb, loyal followers, and to everybody who has made my dream a actuality. To cite the legend herself, that is the life.”
Colleen Atwood, Angela Bassett, Martha Blanding, James L. Brooks, James Cameron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steve Ditko, Harrison Ford, Mark Henn, Frank Oz, Kelly Ripa, Joe Rohde and John Williams have been additionally honored on the ceremony.