{"id":2238981,"date":"2026-01-17T18:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2238981"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:15:03","slug":"sara-waisglass-admits-biggest-fear-playing-max-in-ginny-and-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sara-waisglass-admits-biggest-fear-playing-max-in-ginny-and-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Waisglass admits &#8216;biggest fear&#8217; playing Max in &#8216;Ginny and Georgia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images ui-sortable medium-insert-active\" style=\"\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hungamaexpress.com\/assets\/uploads\/updates\/2026-01-17\/39441_7338403_saraa_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Waisglass admits biggest fear playing Max in Ginny and Georgia\" id=\"474470\" class=\"uploaded-jshare-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sara Waisglass admits &#8216;biggest fear&#8217; playing Max in &#8216;Ginny and Georgia&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For Sara Waisglass <i>How to Lose a Popularity Contest<\/i>, isn\u2019t just a new role, it is an opportunity to show she is more than her fan favourite role Max Baker from <i>Ginny &amp; Georgia. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>During her chat with <i>Us Weekly,<\/i> while promoting her new film, the 27-year-old Canadian actress opened up about her fears, saying, &#8220;One of my biggest fears is that I can only play Maxine Baker, because, like, my energy does bleed into my performances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd something I was very worried about was, in this movie, is it just going to be Max in a different film?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Tubi\u2019s<i> How to Lose a Popularity Contest,<\/i> Sara stars as Ellie, a high achieving student who reluctantly partners with her rival Nate, played by Chase Hudson, on a plan to reclaim their exes by launching his student body president campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Complicating things further, Nate calls Ellie &#8220;Max,&#8221; short for maxi pad, a nickname born from an embarrassing classroom incident years earlier. <\/p>\n<p>Sarah also admitted she has referred to Max Baker as \u201cmaxi-pad\u201d on the Ginny &amp; Georgia set since season one, which only deepens the irony.<\/p>\n<p>To make her new role feel like a completely different &#8220;Max&#8221; from her Netflix character, the Degrassi The Next Generation actress said she worked &#8220;really hard&#8221; to find details, specific traits that made her character unique. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very intentional about silly things like posture and tone of voice,\u201d she shared. \u201cSo it was the same energy, just a different execution, I guess. 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