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" On June 25 at 8pm EST, The Suite Life on Deck&amp;#039;s Debby Ryan will star as Abby Jensen, a newly 16-year-old girl who has been planning for her sweet sixteenth birthday for as long as she can remember! After carefully choosing the many wishes that she would most like to have granted on her special day, a string of strange occurrences begin to unfold. It&amp;#039;s only once her wishes begin to come true, however, does she realize that maybe everything that she was wishing for she already had. Seventeen recently chatted with Debby about her firstDisney Channel movie starring role, her musical career \u2014 that&amp;#039;s totally taking off! \u2014 and her own (magical) sweet sixteen! Seventeen: What was your 16th birthday like? Did you have a list of wishes that you hoped would come true like Abby does? Debby Ryan: No, but I did really want a ukelele! I also had an amazing party at this Hollywood club that we rented out. It was a masquerade party and we all wore masks \u2014 mine was black and had pink sequins that totally matched my dress. It was awesome! 17: Other than having a very important message about not taking what you have for granted, why will everyone love this movie? DR: It&amp;#039;s actually darker, at some points, than a normal Disney Channel Original Movie. Even when things get bad for Abby, there&amp;#039;s always the possibility for them to get a little bit worse \u2014 and we were allowed to explore that in our acting. But I think teenage girls will especially love this movie because we all have wishes of our own and it&amp;#039;s really cool to see all of those things coming true for someone. It sort of makes you think, &amp;#039;Would I do it this way? Would I ask for it in this order?&amp;#039; 17: And of course, you sing the movie&amp;#039;s theme song, &amp;quot;A Wish Comes True Every day!&amp;quot; DR: Yes! The music video is actually out for it already \u2014 and was a complete improvisation! I also sing another song on the soundtrack called &amp;quot;Open Eyes.&amp;quot; I wrote it with my brother, and he co-produced it, too. It plays at Abby&amp;#039;s lowest point in the film so the music has this feeling of desperation, yet I wrote the lyrics to be optimistic. It&amp;#039;s a really unique ballad because the lyrics and music sort of conflict with each other! 17: Okay, spill! Any fun stories from set? DR: Well, we were filming a lot of the movie at this one high school and one day, I saw a flyer advertising for the school&amp;#039;s Neon Dance that night. I was with a bunch of the cast and was like, &amp;quot;We are crashing this!&amp;quot; I think they thought that I was kidding but we really followed through on it! I even went to the dollar store beforehand and bought a bunch of glowsticks \u2014 it was so much fun! I posted a picture on my Twitter, too. The other cast members actually used to call me &amp;quot;Paparazzi&amp;quot; because I took my camera everywhere. 17: And what can we expect from you after this film airs? What&amp;#039;s next? DR: The Suite Life on Deck&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Breakup in Paris&amp;quot; episode just aired, so throughout the third season, Bailey and Cody will be dealing with that. Fans didn&amp;#039;t even believe that we were going to breakup, but we really wanted to do things as they would&amp;#039;ve happened. And we&amp;#039;re working on a big three-part episode now that will really address the breakup. It won&amp;#039;t air for awhile but it&amp;#039;s bigger than anything I&amp;#039;ve ever seen. Other than a movie, of course! Are you looking forward to seeing 16 Wishes? How did you celebrate your sweet sixteen \u2014 or if you haven&amp;#039;t yet, how do you hope you will be celebrating? Tell us below in comments! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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