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'Katy Keene'įollowing the success of the Archie comics-based Riverdale in 2017, Hale was tapped to star in the CW spinoff Katy Keene as its leading fashionista. "It's a lot more work, but I like having the weight of the world on my shoulders." Despite her personal investment in the character, Hale's time as Stella Abbott was brief, as Life Sentence failed to earn a second season on the air. "The creators hung out with me a few times to get a sense of how I talk and act, and they kind of created the character around me," she told Elle in 2018.
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Hale returned to the small screen as Stella Abbott, a terminally ill woman who suddenly learns that she’s completely healthy, in the 2018 CW dramedy Life Sentence. " shushing the camera was actually a spur-of-the-moment idea that happened to make the final cut," she told.
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The show focused on a group of high school students and best friends living in Rosewood, Pennsylvania, whose de facto leader disappeared one night during a sleepover. Hale, who won several awards for her portrayal of Aria Montgomery, including a Teen Choice Award for four different years, is the one who came up with the iconic "shhh" gesture in the show’s intro.
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Hale also appeared in another 2018 comedy, The Unicorn, as a free spirit who joins a couple looking to spice up their relationship, before returning to the big screen in February 2020 with Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, a horror reboot of the classic TV series. The death of a common friend looms over the otherwise raunchy stoner comedy about misbehaving teenage girls. Dude, which was released on Netflix in April 2018, is a coming-of-age comedy focused on four high school girlfriends, played by Hale, Kathryn Prescott, Alexandra Shipp and Awkwafina.