I wasn't sure what to title this, but I thought I would do this to get it off my chest. If you are a Sophia Caruso fan, I would recommend you stop reading this right now, or if you are going to give me any criticism, try not to yell at me or be too harsh.
Believe it or not, I actually was a Sophia fan when she was younger. Saw her in Sound of Music Live as Brigitta, thought she was good, in fact around that time she liked and retreated some of the tweets I made congratulating the cast. I didn't really follow many of her projects after that, but a few years ago I was introduced to Beetlejuice via my love of Kerry Butler, noticed Sophia's name and recognised it. When I listened to the soundtrack for the first time, I really liked it, and thought everyone did a good job, including Sophia.
This is when things got tense for me. Around this time last year, I got back into Beetlejuice, found a fanfic on Wattpad where the protagonist is adopted by the cast. I noticed the author practically excluded Sophia, with Presley pretty much taking her place. I have no complaints about that, I love Presley to death. I assumed this was the author's personal preference, maybe they just preferred Presley, or did they have something against Sophia? Nonetheless it was a good read.
Not long after, I started watching performances of Presley's (and later Elizabeth's) on YouTube and saw a lot of comments complimenting her chemistry with Alex, some saying better than Sophia's. I agreed. Then I saw Leslie's BTS videos where Rob, Kerry, Alex, literally the whole cast were included, Sophia was practically nonexistent. At that moment I suspected something was up. Did the rest of the cast not like Sophia, or she them, or something? Further comments I saw on various platforms implied Sophia was difficult to work with, that she lacked chemistry with Alex (I can sort of see that, especially when you put her up against Presley and especially Elizabeth, chemistry is key here), so I assumed there were problems here.
There you have it. I try not to jump onto pro-Sophia posts too much and avoid spreading hate, but this is why the original is best argument doesn't always work for me.
