Cathcart has spent nearly her entire life chasing her acting dreams.
Her career began all the way back when she was just entering kindergarten.
It was always a dream of mine when I was in elementary school."
Now, she lives it “on a daily.”
Eventually, the characters that she saw on screen inspired her to break out of her bubble.
“And I watch Netflix all the time.”
Over the next few years, working on commercials made her fall even more in love with acting.
That was the coolest thing that could have ever happened,'" she toldA*Pop.
“‘I want to do this a million times more.'”
After that, her life seemingly changed overnight.
“It was really intense,” she toldBrat.com.
“I was very, very lucky,” she said.
“Looking back at it, I’m like, ‘That’s actually insane.'”
“It’s like having two full-time jobs at once,” she toldWE Day Vancouverat the time.
“I would love to [return] one day.
“It was so fast.
“But it was super fun.”
It was as if Cathcart was navigating life as a teenager right alongside her character.
“I kind of grew up with Kitty by my side,” she toldTeen Vogue.
“[We’re] learning through each other, which is really cool.”
It was a special way to bring a smile to audiences’ faces during such an uncertain time.
The role required her to live in Seoul, South Korea for four months during filming.
“I’ve learned so much as an actor and as a person,” she told Cosmopolitan.
“I’ve proven to myself that I can be thrown into new experiences.
I’m more capable than I might realize and I might have not given myself credit for that.”
“Balancing the two can be challenging, but I’m very lucky it worked out.”
“So definitely one day, hopefully, I can do that.”
