Inside the Disney Machine: How the Iconic Brand Is Discovering the Next Generation of Stars

It’s a tale as old as time — or at least the late ’90s. Young actors cut their teeth on Disney youth programming and blossom into fully fledged pop stars or Academy Award-nominated actors. Some of today’s biggest stars — Zendaya, Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo, and Sabrina Carpenter, for example — got their start in the […]