"Nashville" Books Laura Benanti for Season 3 — Will She Clash With Rayna?
by Andy Swift
July 30, 2014


Tony Award winner Laura Benanti is lending her pipes to ABC’s "Nashville" for its upcoming third season, but can the country music capital of the world handle another diva duel?

The former "Go On" star will recur for several episodes as Sadie Stone, an up-and-coming artist in the country music biz, our sister site Deadline reports. Though Sadie supposedly “befriends” Rayna in Season 3, we all know what that really means: brace for conflict!



To be fair, it’s entirely possible that Rayna and Sadie will hit it off swimmingly without a hint of ill will between them; it’s just much more likely that Rayna will choose Luke over Deacon, then get second thoughts when Deacon starts cozying up to Sadie.

(Come on, it’s the "Nashville" way!)

http://tvline.com/2014/07/30/nashville-season-3-spoilers-laura-benanti-cast-rayna-friend/

"Nashville" First Look: Laura Benanti's Sadie Cozies Up to [Spoiler]
by Kimberly Roots
September 16, 2014


A new songbird has landed in "Nashville" — and here’s your exclusive first look at Tony winner Laura Benanti as the ABC drama’s Sadie Stone. But you’ll never guess who’s grabbed her attention…

Yes, of all the men in Music City, sketchy record exec Jeff Fordham is one of the first to catch Ms. Stone’s eye. Is their interaction professional? Flirty? Is she showing him the iMace app on her phone?

We’ll find out when Benanti kicks off a multi-ep arc in the Oct. 1 episode.



Sadie is “somebody that ends up on Rayna’s radar,” showrunner Dee Johnson tells TVLine.

“They connect as women in this business who don’t have, say, the baggage that Rayna has with Juliette… It’ll be an interesting friendship that we see evolve.”

http://tvline.com/2014/09/16/nashville-laura-benanti-photos-season-3/