Arguably the most well-known Camden alum, the series’ wild kid is likewise the least most likely to go back to the fold. “I think I definitely sort of butted up against those limitations and those boundaries for a multitude of reasons,” she informed the Awards Chatter podcast in 2018 of her experience. “Because, yeah you know, you can only do so much with a particular character specifically on a show like that. We really had to sort of stay in the boundaries of a somewhat religious family and teaching lessons, and when, you know you’re 16, 14, 15, 16, you get to a point when you’re like oh man, I just want to do something different. I just want to cut my hair, and I just want to dye it a different color and I can’t do all these things because I have this contract.”
Ultimately she did cut her hair, she remembered and “I got in a great deal of difficulty for that. I needed to ask forgiveness to everyone, which is sort of the style of my experience on 7th Heaven I was constantly saying sorry.” And this was prior to the then-17- year-old chosen to posture topless for males’s publication Gear in2000
Following her exit from the imaginary town of Glenoak, Biel focused generally on movie functions, gathering parts in 2010’s The A-Team, 2011’s New Year’s Eve, 2012’s Total Recall and Hitchcock, 2016’s A Kind of Murder prior to going back to the little screen as executive manufacturer and star of Sinner in 2017.
“There wasn’t like a driving force behind it. I got on a path of doing films. But, as we all know, the film industry has become very limited. I wanted to take control of my career again, which is what I had in mind when I started this small production company,” she discussed to The Hollywood Reporter of forming Iron Ocean Productions with buddy Michelle Purple “Also, television was changing: It’s become such an incredible place where if you have a thought-out, interesting, fresh idea, you have a great opportunity, especially as a woman, to put something on television.”
But given that her lead function in the splashy very first season, she’s focused mainly on voice work ( BoJack Horseman, Pete the Cat) and the 10- part criminal offense series Limetown as she and hubby Justin Timberlake raise their 6-year-old kid Silas and Phineas, 2.
