Selena Gomez is comparing her two TV characters to each other!

The almost 30-year-old entertainer opened up about how similar her current role, Mabel on Only Murders in the Building, is to her Disney Channel role of Alex Russo on Wizards of Waverly Place.

If you didn’t know, Only Murders is actually Selena‘s first TV role since Wizards ended in 2012.

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“I feel like Mabel is an older version of Alex in a way,” Selena said on EW‘s Awardist podcast. “I adored being on that show so much. I felt like I did learn a lot. We actually had great writers — we had two writers that were on Friends — and we had an incredible director that we used for most of our seasons. We got really lucky. I still look back at that and laugh at certain things just because I thought it was so fun, and we tried.”

Selena also added that after doing music for a few years, she wanted to “take some time for my true love, which is film and TV.”

“I’m not sure I was looking for a series, I was just looking for something in general,” she said. “This was just honestly a wonderful surprise. [My team and I] got the material and responded right away, and I thought it was so cool. I definitely didn’t think it would do this well but I’m definitely happy.”

The first two episodes of Only Murders in the Building are out now, with new episodes premiering on Hulu on Tuesdays.

Speaking of Wizards of Waverly Place, find out how much the cast is worth…

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