Sarah Hyland auditioned for her part in Vampire Academy over Skype! And Lucy Fry did not receive a callback for the first casting—it was only when the producers started accepting self-tapes that Fry submitted one and landed a studio callback. Interesting film note: after Rose Hathaway sedates Headmistress Kirova, Kirova says: “I could have been a model. A man in Milan gave me his card when I was 16.” Kirova was played by model Olga Kurylenko who began modelling at 16.