Hilde Lysiak got to interview Brooklynn Prince, who plays her on Home Before Dark

Los Angeles Times

Actually, the 9-year-old Prince plays Hilde Lisko, a character based on child journalist Hilde Lysiak, who's now 13 years old. "Let’s just acknowledge how weird this is. You play me reporting in the TV show and I’m interviewing you. It’s a whole thing," Lysiak tells Prince in an interview set up by the Los Angeles Times. Lysiak adds: "Brooklynn, you’re a Wonder Woman to me. You’re so inspirational. OK, so the character is inspired by me. But after getting to know you a lot and watching the first few episodes, I realized that you’ve kind of added a lot of Brooklynn Prince to it, if that makes sense. Can you talk about what you added to the character?" Prince responds: "Well, it’s really complicated. Because you’ve got to take your truth a little bit. I basically have to take you and add me onto it. I had to take stuff from you, like details from you, and add onto the Hilde I created in my mind. And I wanted to make it almost as real as possible but also not too close to you, because that can make it a little bit confusing." ALSO: Home Before Dark bosses break down the Season 1 finale.