She recently joked to Jay Leno how she had to 'dig deep' to portray a scantily clad Southern chatterbox.
And Miley Cyrus certainly delivered on Thursday's episode of Two and a Half Men where she played the teenage daughter of Walden's (Ashton Kutcher) old friend who comes to visit Los Angeles with the possibility of relocating permanently.
It was the first of Miley's two-episode stint as Missi, 'short for Mississippi — the river not the state,' who spoke with a more pronounced twang than the Nashville-born starlet.
It was also the 19-year-old's first televised appearance in four years since she starred on the Disney Channel's Hannah Montana.
Miley spends the episode, suggestively titled You Do Know What The Lollipop's For, in skin-tight tube tops, a nightie, and in one scene asks Walden to apply sunscreen to her back while bikini clad.
'Do you mind if I take the girls out? Get some color on Kim and Khloe?' Miley's character teasingly asked a bewildered Walden.
She then joked that she had once attempted to make out with a gay man, 'but he didn’t take.'
As Missi, the amply-charmed actress talked a mile a minute yet couldn't help but attract both Walden and Jake, played by Angus T. Jones, who's on leave from the Army
'Can you direct me to the little girl’s room? Unless one of y’all was recently stung by a jellyfish,' Cyrus joked after her grand entrance.
Walden's infatuation with the funny blonde flourished until Missi offered to set him up with her mother.
However, Jake and Missi have a meeting of the dim-witted minds, bonding beach-side before Jake leaned in for a kiss.
But their passion became short-lived when Missi decided to return home and get back together with her ex-boyfriend, prompting fans to wonder how she'll return for her second episode of the CBS sitcom.
Backstage at this year’s Emmys, Jon Cryer told reporters that the guest star went all the way through to dress rehearsals using the script, which worried him at first.
'Then, we did it in front of the audience, Miley brought it,' he said. 'Miley was just on fire, did fantastic.
'Then, I remembered, ‘Oh, yes, she was actually hatched in the Disney labs in Burbank and grown for just this sitcom situation.’
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