‘Cruel Summer’  Lexi Underwood, Sadie Stanley & Griffin Gluck On [Spoiler]’s Death & More - video Dailymotion

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00:00 what can you tease about the events that take place?

00:03 You know, I have three timelines.

00:05 What can you tease about the events that take place

00:07 between the first timeline and the second timeline?

00:10 Because, you know, Megan is very much in the sense like,

00:13 you know, why is this girl here?

00:15 I'm not really feeling it.

00:16 Then we're gonna get to the second timeline

00:18 and she's like, oh, this is my bestie,

00:20 this is my homegirl, like, this is my ride or die.

00:22 So what can you tease with the things that happen

00:25 in between that we're going to learn

00:27 about how they develop this close relationship

00:29 that kind of even exists in the third timeline

00:31 though we're still trying to piece together

00:34 what that even is.

00:35 - Absolutely.

00:36 Yeah, I think that the transition from the first timeline

00:39 to the second timeline

00:40 is all about the building of relationships.

00:42 The building of the relationship between Megan and Isabella

00:44 and also the change and the growth

00:46 in the relationship between Megan and Luke.

00:49 I think Isabella coming to town

00:51 really threw Megan for a loop.

00:53 Isabella is everything that Megan doesn't really like,

00:56 but I think that's more of a projection

00:59 than anything.

01:01 But Isabella kind of comes to town

01:02 and convinces Megan to loosen up a little bit

01:06 and to be a regular teenager.

01:09 Megan had to grow up really fast

01:10 and she's super like straight A,

01:12 kind of goody two shoes,

01:13 doesn't really like break any rules.

01:16 So that's very different from Isabella

01:19 and Lexi plays it so great.

01:20 And she kind of comes in with this like amazing,

01:22 charismatic energy that is really exciting

01:27 and intriguing to everybody.

01:29 But Megan's not so sure at first

01:30 and then we kind of see how that changes.

01:32 - Isabella, she really,

01:35 you can tell that she values friendships,

01:37 but specifically also strong, healthy female friendships.

01:41 And when she comes to Chatham,

01:43 I think she sees that in Megan.

01:44 She sees this space where she can really build

01:48 a friendship with her and not even just a friendship,

01:50 but also it turns into kind of like a sisterhood.

01:53 They really become close.

01:55 And at first, Megan pushes back,

01:58 but Isabella kind of has this mindset

02:00 where it's like, she's not gonna stop.

02:02 She's not gonna back down

02:03 until she really gets what she wants.

02:05 And she's able to charm Megan into finally biking her

02:10 and being cool with her.

02:11 And I think that that arc being able to see

02:15 just how tight they get,

02:16 even in the span of like a couple of months

02:18 is really cool.

02:19 - Thank you, Griffin, for you.

02:21 We learned at the end of the first episode

02:23 that Luke was very central to the mystery

02:26 of what's going on.

02:28 And I'm even trying to piece together

02:29 like what possibly could have happened

02:32 by the time we get to the end of episode one.

02:33 So how did knowing his fate that we learned

02:37 at the end of the pilot impact the way you approach

02:39 the character throughout the rest of the season?

02:41 - Great question.

02:42 Honestly, one of the main things for me

02:46 is knowing that Luke was gonna meet an untimely fate.

02:50 I wanted to build everything up

02:55 to drive that nail in as hard as possible,

02:57 to make that, you know, the stakes as high as possible,

03:01 to make people actually feel sad for him

03:04 and wish it didn't happen

03:07 and just be invested in him in general.

03:09 So early on, one of the main things I was trying to do

03:13 is just make Luke seem as innocent and nice

03:17 and likable as possible, get along with everyone,

03:20 smile on his face, cracking jokes, being goofy.

03:24 I just wanted people to actually like him

03:26 so that at the end they would miss him.

03:29 They wouldn't be like, "Oh, well, he had it coming."

03:33 You know?

03:34 And as we get further and further into the season,

03:37 what I think is so interesting about Luke

03:39 is you get to see how flawed he is as a person

03:43 and all of the intricate things that make him him,

03:46 good and bad.

03:47 And you get to, it leaves you questioning a lot.

03:50 You know, I don't think he deserved what he got

03:54 in the end, but it's definitely,

03:56 you go on an interesting journey of like,

03:58 do you like him?

03:59 Do you not?

04:00 And I thought that was really interesting.

04:01 And knowing where it was gonna end

04:04 made everything in the beginning, in the middle ground,

04:09 a lot more fun to play with,

04:11 because I knew that,

04:13 I knew the reaction I was going for at the end.

04:16 So everything else was just a buildup to that, I think.

04:18 - Well, thank you three so much for chatting with me.

04:20 I cannot wait to check out the rest of the season

04:22 and I hope you all enjoy the rest of your day.

04:24 - Thank you so much. - Thank you.

‘Cruel Summer’ Lexi Underwood, Sadie Stanley & Griffin Gluck On [Spoiler]’s Death & More

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