Many a Hollywood hopeful has signed on to a reality show, certain it’d launch them into a big-screen career. Most of those people now work at Chili’s, but reality refugee Alycia Debnam-Carey has defied the odds.
Debnam-Carey, 21, makes her splashy American film debut in this Friday’s “Into the Storm,” a disaster flick in which she plays a teen who must deal with a hellish tornado that’s hit the town.
The Hollywood arrival comes by way of Sydney, where the Australian starlet cut her teeth at age 18 in the TV docu-series “Next Stop Hollywood.” The show followed Debnam-Carey and five other Aussie actors as they hopped across the pond to audition for pilot season in LA.
Debnam-Carey knew she was taking a risk by signing up.
“Reality shows can be really looked down upon,” she tells The Post. “[But] it was very truthful and it shed a light on what this industry really is.”
Her decision to allow cameras to follow her into the unknown ultimately paid off. While filming, she landed a part in the yet-to-be-released “Where the Devil Hides.” She’s also in the upcoming thriller “Unfriend,” and recently wrapped filming for AMC’s fantasy-action adventure “Galyntine.”
It all means she’s learning more and more about the inner workings of Tinseltown. The same, however, can’t be said of her tornado knowledge.
When asked what she’d do if one hit right now, she responds, “I literally have no idea,” adding with a laugh, “I just recently experienced in LA an earthquake for the first time. During that I was like, ‘What do we do? Where do we go?! I don’t know how to deal with this!’ ”