Catching the acting bug at the tender age of 4, Savannah May, 19, quickly found her love of being on stage starring with her family in a musical. Hailing from Sugarland, Texas, the teen now calls LA home where she’s starred in several Nickelodeon shows including School of Rock and Knight Squad. The actress also appeared in Disney’s Bizaardvark and she’s showing no signs of slowing down! HollywoodLife sat down EXCLUSIVELY with the rising star to get the tea on what it was like working with Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Denise Richards, who plays her on-screen mom on Lifetime Channels’ The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders.Savannah May: I’ve always wanted to do a movie that was super intense and dramatic, but also something that the whole family could also watch. And I feel like that’s what this movie really captures. It’s about friendship. It’s about standing up for yourself. It’s about having confidence and being strong young females. So that’s something that I really connected with.Savannah May: It was so cool. I didn’t even know she was playing my mom until the first day of filming. I got the call sheet and it said Candice, Denise Richards, and I was like, wait a minute, that can’t be right. It was so cool. I was mainly excited because I’m a huge Friends fan and I remember her when she gets hurt on the episode as Ross and Monica’s cousin and I just like can envision her like that. So I was so thrilled and the first scene I was filming was with her, so totally not nerve wracking at all.But I got into the car and we were sitting there ready to do the scene and she goes, “Hi, I’m Denise, it’s so nice to meet you. Can we run the scene a couple of times just so we can get a feel for it?” And she was just like one of the sweetest people I’ve ever worked with.
