Sara Paxton Walked Away with an Aquamarine Memento

Sara Paxton nonetheless has a splash of Aquamarine in her wardrobe!

The actress, 36, had a signature sense of fashion that made extra than simply her mermaid tail memorable as she starred alongside Joanna “JoJo” Levesque and Emma Roberts within the 2006 teen film. Within the film, she washed up at an area pool as a mermaid in response to 2 teen ladies, performed by JoJo and Roberts, praying for a miracle so that they don’t half methods.

“I want I had the tail as a result of I may swim tremendous quick in it. However no,” Paxton tells PEOPLE in a latest interview whereas reflecting on her ombre fish wetsuit for the twentieth Century Fox movie.

“Every tail was one million {dollars} and made out of some NASA rubber and glass,” Paxton says of the magical tail that was manufactured from 5,000 scales. “It was loopy. They had been so insanely heavy.”

She tells PEOPLE that it was heavy sufficient to earn her particular therapy to get onto the set.

“As soon as I used to be within the tail they must carry me on a stretcher after which go away me on the ground,” Paxton says. “They might simply go away me there they usually’d hand me some magazines and I might be like, ‘Okay, nice.'”

Sadly, Paxton wasn’t capable of hold the bejeweled prop from the teenager film.

She did not go away the set empty-handed, nevertheless, as she nonetheless has the earrings that had been described in Aquamarine as giving “one of the best compliments” immediately in her ear.

“I feel I’ve the starfish earrings. They do [speak to me],” Paxton tells PEOPLE. “They was once nicer, however now they’re like, ‘Go to the health club.’ Now they’re like my Apple Watch. … I feel they got to me.” 

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“I am like, neurotic and I feel I am too fearful to essentially take something from a set,” the actress confesses. “But when I am allowed to, then I’ll. I am a goody goody.”

Since filming Aquamarine, Paxton stated she doesn’t see JoJo or Roberts a lot as “you change into adults and households and transferring and every kind of issues and life takes over.”

“However all nonetheless, if I had been to stumble upon any of these girls, all love and hugs,” she stated.

Paxton’s newest challenge, a task in season two of Based mostly on a True Story, is now streaming on Peacock.