Miley Cyrus Talks Potential Alternate ‘Hannah Montana’ Pilot With David Letterman

A one-minute teaser for the upcoming season of David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction interview series teases chats with Miley Cyrus and Charles Barkley. The season launches on Netflix on June 12.

Cyrus’ segments find her joking about how she used to have a fear of getting fired but now she sees being told that she’s no longer needed for obligations is a relief, and she also appears to reflect on her Hannah Montana days. “They did shoot a pilot with another girl, and then they showed it to [a focus group],” Cyrus says. “They weren’t relating with her.”

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“The little brats,” Letterman says.

“I love them for that,” Cyrus rejoins.

Barkley’s segments find him playing golf with Letterman as they tease each other in a sand trap. “When you start taking it too serious,” Barkley says later in a more formal interview setting, “you need to take a look at yourself.”

Letterman deadpans, “We’ll be right back.”

The two episodes are a continuation of the “when I feel like it” attitude the former Late Night and Late Show host has taken to celebrity interviews in his quasi-retirement. Last month during the series, John Mulaney shared a story about how Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels helped scare him straight during rehab by talking to him about the late John Belushi.

“I knew John Belushi for seven years,” Mulaney said Michaels told him. “I’ve been talking about him for 48 years. That’s the shrapnel that happens when someone goes down like that. John didn’t want to die. He didn’t plan to. Just because it’s a story, just because it’s set in stone like history, people don’t want to die from this.”

Letterman was also a guest on Mulaney’s talk show comedy special, Everybody’s in L.A.

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