Talk:How the 'A' Stole Christmas/@comment-188.194.64.113-20141226111659

About how they discretely cast Black Veil as a Ravenswood character… The actress who portrayed Leah is called Elizabeth Whitson. And I just read the following on PLL Wiki: Elizabeth Whitson appears in this episode as a character named Leah, who is appearantly Luke’s cousin. However, when this episode was shot Whitson was still going to play Olivia, Luke’s twin sister, in the actual spin-off show. The role was recast with Merrit Patterson after this episode was shot and before the first episode for Ravenswood was shot. If you look closely you can see the dialogue was changed during post-production and doesn’t match up with what her lips are saying. Her lips are saying ‘No, that was my brother’, but we’re hearing ‘cousin’ instead of ‘brother’. When Luke calls her ‘Leah’, that’s also off-screen. He was probably calling her ‘Olivia’ before. Recast? Maybe she was promised a role in PLL? :) "As we dug deeper into the mythology of Ravenswood, we decided to re-conceive the character of Olivia. Merritt Patterson seemed to be the best choice for the direction the character is now headed." This is the reason Ravenswood producers came up with regarding the change of cast after the Halloween episode. I find it a bit flimsy… Merritt Patterson was originally going to portray Olivia’s best friend. So it was clearly the producers’ call to recast the role, not the actress’. All the more hints that Leah was introduced on purpose in a PLL episode :)