The stars of Hulu’s ‘Tell Me Lies’ reflect on season two’s drama – The Nerds of Color

The finale of the second season of Tell me lies is officially streaming on Hulu and to celebrate, I’m foregoing my spoiler-filled interviews with Grace Van Patten, Jackson White, Sonia Mena, Alicia Crowder, Branden Cook, Spencer House and Thomas Doherty.

Tell me lies Season 2 begins with Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) return to college and no longer speak after their dramatic breakup at the beginning of the summer. But even though they are very much at odds, they find themselves in a new version of their addictive dynamic – one that is as infuriating as it is inescapable. Meanwhile, the story delves deeper into the lives of Lucy and Stephen’s friend group as the fallout from the first season impacts their entire lives in unexpected ways.

“It was so exciting. “I’d never done this before, I’d never had the opportunity to do a second season of anything,” Van Patten explained of the opportunity to reprise her role. “So at first it was a lot of nerves and fear: Is Lucy completely crazy about me and will I be able to find her again?” But once we read the scripts and when we got back on set and I was wearing these low-rise jeans from 2008 , it made sense again in a really reassuring way [it was] It was really fun to do a season with Jackson where there was a completely different dynamic, similar but rooted in anger and war rather than lust and desire, and that was a different approach.”

White agreed, adding, “It was so much fun to do something opposite. Yeah, I’ve never done a second season or anything like that, so it was really cool. And the jeans, the jeans, played a big role in getting us going again. That’s what they do, you squeeze into these lucky brands and suddenly you’re back in action.”

In the 2015 chronicle, Pippa and Diana are doing well, but there’s still so much left to tell about how their relationship got to this point. “I hope we’ll see how it starts,” Mena said. “Then I hope we just see more of ourselves and the nuances of the relationship. There’s so much good and positive in the relationship, but no relationship is perfect, and I think it would be fun to learn more about the depth of their relationship.” But I think it would just be fun to see how that happened?”

“I don’t think any of them are particularly in touch with or aware of their sexuality,” Crowder commented. “So they have to figure that out and at the same time come together and ask: How is this all going and evolving?”

“Sometimes I don’t like it,” House said of the time jump. “For me, it’s kind of fun to see, ‘Oh, can Wrigley get out of this?’ Can he find a healthy path forward?’ And he won’t do that, because we saw him today and he won’t do it. So I don’t always love it, but it can also be very interesting, you could look at it from a different perspective and ask yourself: How did he get this far? And we’ll figure it out for him, he’ll figure it out.”

“I think I liked it for the same reason you say, Spencer,” Cook continued. “Everything looks good, because Most of the time it wasn’t really clear until we got the scripts and stuff [that] The wedding might just be destroyed. So I thought, “Oh, okay, he’s fine in the end,” and of course there are little things here and there, but I thought, “Oh, okay, so I know they’ll figure it out somehow.”‘ And then there is It’s interesting because you build up to something that’s a cliffhanger, and then you build up to something else that’s also a cliffhanger. So it’s interesting to plan the duality of the two, because I think when you play it and when you shoot it, you obviously can’t play the ending.”

Even though we don’t see Leo in 2015, Doherty told me, “I want to see him again.” I also had to ask him if he thought things would have been different for his character and Lucy if he hadn’t beaten Stephen up in the season finale. “I mean, if it wasn’t that, I think it would have been something different,” the actor shared. “I think she’s so mentally trapped with him. He really has it, but if it wasn’t like that, it would have been something different.”

We discussed that insane cliffhanger, their hopes for a third season, the experience of reprising their roles, all the different relationships, and more.

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