
To me, those scenes are really uncomfortable, and I think they were as uncomfortable to Jacob, so I think both of us being uncomfortable in it made it a little easier. We always made sure it was a closed set there were as few people in the room as possible, we had all of the monitors turned off. Sam made it really comfortable for all of us. You have some intense sex scenes on the show. She also wants to know what’s going on with him. She’s seeking comfort in the relationship that she knows, and it’s weird, because as much as it’s a violent relationship, she also feels a certain safeness in being with him. I think even though he’s the one who hurt her, it’s a very dark, vulnerable time for her, and it feels like everyone is against her. We see her unraveling after the suspension - why has not talking to Nate affected her so much? She doesn’t want anyone to find out, but obviously she has to go to school and tried to hide it, but her plan didn’t work, so I think she’s just upset that everyone is involving themselves. I think she just wants it all to go away she tries to tell the principal it’s none of his business.

I think she’s pissed that it happened, but she’s hiding it, and I think she’s pissed that everyone is in her business. How does Maddy feel returning to school after Nate has been suspended and everyone knows about what happened? You can easily get hurt, and oftentimes you want to give it your all as a young actor and you want to make it as real as possible, so you allow certain things because you want it to be good and believable.
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I’m happy that all of my scenes that have been the most uncomfortable have been with Jacob, because he’s a really sweet person and really professional and easy to work with, so that made it better. We had a stunt coordinator on set to help, but when you’re in the moment anything can happen. How was it for you and Jacob to shoot that intense choking scene? You also feel like when your parents or any adult is trying to tell you what to do, you want to rebel against that, and she definitely wants to rebel and just be with Nate. Despite what you see on camera, I know we show a lot of the toxic parts of the relationship, but there’s also been the good parts of the relationship. She doesn’t want him to go to jail - he’s her boyfriend. She defends Nate multiple times, to the police and her parents and her teachers. Later on things might change, but now she just wants to defend him and be with him. She’s also just really young and thinks that Nate is her world.

I think she is in love with him, and she has a little bit of hope inside of her that he will be everything she wants him to be. A lot of times with girls, we also think we can fix them or help them or change them. A lot of times, especially in high school, your emotions are at an all-time high, and you’re so in love with the person that you’re with and you think you’re going to end up with them. I think because she really is in love with Nate, despite how dysfunctional and toxic their relationship is. Maddy says she’s sick to her stomach because she knows the abuse wouldn’t stop her from loving him - why do you think that is? I think that set into her wanting to have control over men and be the one in charge.

Then everything she loved and everything that she dreamed of doing and thought she was going to do forever was taken away from her by some random man she never even met. I think it really helped me, because since she’s been a little girl she’s always had confidence and she’s always been in love with the makeup and hair and wardrobe. How did that impact how you thought about her? She also has an interesting backstory with being a child pageant queen and being forced to stop after one of the men involved in pageants is arrested for sexual assault. So I think it definitely had an effect on her and explains why she’s not left this relationship. I think oftentimes growing up in a dysfunctional family, you can easily end up in a dysfunctional relationship because it seems almost normal to you, or even better than you grew up seeing. She doesn’t see any love there, so she believes what she has with Nate is far better than what she has at home. Her parents don’t have the best relationship, they don’t even really communicate. It’s pretty clear that her home life is dark and dull. How did her upbringing explain how she ended up in this situation with Nate? We learn about Maddy’s childhood in this episode. Demie, who previously starred in Jonah Hill’s Mid90s, talked to The Hollywood Reporter about playing an abused girlfriend, filming that intense choking scene and offering lessons to young people.
