“I don’t know exactly what they sent in, but let’s say it was a headshot and a resume that they had to send to the casting directors, and then the casting directors sorted through all of those, and we got thousands of submissions, and they invited people who had maybe the right look, maybe the right vibe, maybe some interesting experience, to send in audition videos, and one of those people was Shubham Maheshwari, who plays Gat.”

As for the rest of The Liars , Joseph Zada will be seen next as young Haymitch in the upcoming Hunger Games movie. Meanwhile, Emily Alyn Lind previously starred in the Gossip Girl reboot, and is the daughter of Barbara Alyn Woods, who starred as Deb in One Tree Hill. And Esther McGregor is the daughter of Ewan McGregor.