>>RACHAEL: I think, probably the funniest thing, and most difficult thing that happened during the first episode was...
Uh, something happened in the last scene, between Vivian and Aunt Jodie, where Vivivan's coverage, my coverage, got...
I don't know, erased or something. So we had to reshoot it, about a week after we shot the original one.
So what you see on the show is actually shot about a week apart. Barbara had to go off and get married, so...
I ended up acting opposite Susan Miller, our executive producer, and she was actually also my first Archibald and my first Aster.
So she's quite versatile as an actress.
>>DAN: I guess for me the biggest challenge was... disguising the fact that I'm a real klutz.
Whereas the character's, you know, a New York City firefighter.
>>NICOLE: The funny, kinda like behind-the scenes, thing that I remember at episode one is that...
We were basically, like, guerilla shooting, in Battery Park, and so every time, like, you know,
someone who even looked remotely like a cop would come by we'd all kind of, like, dive down into the grass and look...
look very casual and, you know, hide the camera and everything. It was pretty fun.
>>MITCHELL: I know for myself, while everyone else was, you know, all worried and trying to figure out
what they're gonna do with their character, I'm like, "OK, all I have to do is kiss a pretty girl".
"Like, ten times in a row". I'm like, "I think I'm gonna really enjoy working on this".
>>JESSY: Yeah, this is kind of just about the first couple of episodes in general. I was watching over them,
And I was thinking about the introdcutions to all the characters. And I was thinking about my reveal,
which is the look up to the window, and I'm very like "What is this show gonna be?", like "What are we embarking upon?"
>>JOHNNY: I remember this story that Mitch told me, about a webseries he was in, and he was having so much fun,
and he really enjoyed it. Needless to say, looking at an audition notice, I was like, "Oh, I'm gonna go audition for this".
So I go to the website and I'm like, "You gotta be kidding me. It's the same webseries he was talking about.
And so, I'm like, already half an hour late for the audition, and I finally get there and I run in, I'm like,
"I'm so sorry, please. I'll just leave now if you don't want me to do this" and so then they're like, "No, no, just read, it's fine".
And I read, and I was, like, so flustered and I just did it and I was like, "That was the worst audition I've ever done in my life"
And then the next day they were like, "You got it!", and I was like, "Great".
>>RACHAEL: We actually, we did audition together, we had a callback together. And I was like, "Oh my God, she's intense, I like her"
And I remember we were going over the sides and I think you said "I feel a lot more comfortable with Aster"
And I was like, "I feel a lot more comfortable with Vivian".
>>NICOLE: Yeah, that's like a funny thing that I've told people before, too. I'm like "Yeah, we were both up for both parts".
Wouldn't that have been weird? You know, like, it almost feels wrong now. But yeah, totally,
I felt so much more in tune with Aster and I mean she's obviously so much more in tune with Vivian so just worked out really well.
>>ASTER: You didn't think I'd let you go that easy, did you?
>>VIVIAN: I'd hope not.
OK, I have to go or I never will.
>>ASTER: OK. Go. See you soon.
>>VIVIAN: Yeah, you will.
>>RACHAEL: That dinamic is very much, Aster is the passionate one who, you know, and I think it's, the sexiness of it is...
Is in that sort of devil-may-care type of thing. And I think that that is absolutely one of the things that attracts Vivian to Aster.
And most people, I think, to that personality.
>>AUNT JODIE: Hey Girls! Breakfast is on!
>>VIVIAN: We'll be down in a minute.
God, I just had sex in my aunt's house.
>>ASTER: I know, I was there.
>>VIVIAN: Does it show?
>>ASTER: Oh, it shows.
>>VIVIAN: We better get dresssed.
>>ASTER: Don't you wanna shower first?
>>JESSY: What episode is it where you guys do your PA announcement? I was so, like, affected by it.
>>ARCHIBALD: Hey. >>ELIZABETH: Hey.
>>ARCHIBALD: So, what should I say?
>>ELIZABETH: Just give a shout out about the play.
>>ARCHIBALD: Um... here's a little shout out to you all.
>>JESSY: It was so intimate, cause you just picture these high school kids, in this, like, little room...
And they're just, like... the way that they were talking quietly and they would, like, lean in and do their...
So sweet! And it made me so excited to see what happenes.
>>ALEXIS: Let me just say, the first time I met Josh, I just remember thinking "Well, this isn't gonna be difficult at all".
Because he is charming, and just the sweetest, sweetest, most respectful man, and I just have such a blast working with him.
And so those scenes are really sweet. It really does take me back to high school, I remember that feeling,
The butterflies in your stomach, you know, and being sorta clumsy, I think that's what's so funny about Elizabeth,
She's so clumsy! And, you know, just really likes him a lot. Genuinely, in a really sweet way.
>>NICOLE: What's everybody's favorite scene? To shoot? Yeah, to shoot, or to then watch, definitely two different things.
>>DAN: Just the very first episode, when we were sitting on the stairs.
Just kind of sets the tone for the dinamic with the characters, and also I think we clicked really well just working together.
So that was a great thing to kick off with.
>>RACHAEL: My favorite scene to shoot though was probably the one where you kept changing outfits in episode four.
>>ASTER: I know it's not really your scene but there'll probably some people from school you know there.
OK, would you think like a girl for a moment, not like my girlfriend?
>>VIVIAN: So sorry, it's just... all in one package here.
>>MITCHELL: As far as watching, I like watching everyone else's scenes, because I don't get to watch them when it happens.
And I would love to be right next to the camera and see it in action. So when it's done,
I'm as eager as everyone that watch the show for the episode to come out so I can see it.
>>ALEXIS: My favorite scene to shoot was the locker scene, which is really funny because we had to get the timing right,
We were constantly trying to figure out, like, if I was walking too fast, walking too slow, and when we shot it,
I actually did, like, hit the locker. I remember Tina being like, "It looked so real!" and I'm like,
"That's because it was real. I literally bumped right into it". But it was just a lot of fun, and I also love that that's...
Really the first time I open up to him about something I'm afraid of, about being worried about being good.
>>ARCHIBALD: Oh my God, are you OK?
>>ELIZABETH: I'm such a mess.
>>ARCHIBALD: My fault, I should've looked both ways before opening the door.
>>ELIZABETH: I was concentrating on my lines.
>>ARCHIBALD: Yeah, I'm pretty oblivious when I draw.
>>ELIZABETH: Bet you don't bump into things.
>>ARCHIBALD: I tend to trip. It's not pretty.
>>ELIZABETH: It's just... I can't not be good in this.
>>ARCHIBALD: You will be.
>>ELIZABETH: You don't know!
>>ARCHIBALD: I guess not.
>>ELIZABETH: People expect things. I gotta bring it. You know?
>>ARCHIBALD: Yeah...
>>ALEXIS: I think it's really sweet, it's the begining of a friendship that's deeper than just a little crush.
>>JOSHUA: So I think one of my favorite scenes to watch and work on, I'm always difficult like this, but one of the...
I guess most fun ones was the episode you and I rode the bike on. Because, like, you know, how many times have...
I don't... I can't remember the last time I rode a bike, but let alone a low-rider bike, right?
And having somebody on the back, I mean, that's tough... For all you guys out there who saw that - it wasn't easy.
>>RACHAEL: I was white-knuckling that boy!
>>NICOLE: I had a very different experience shooting 7 and 8, because all of a sudden, like, I was like,
"Oh, there's the character, there she is!". And I love... I love the writing on all the episodes,
But I loved the writing on those episodes, I think the best so far. And although on the production side,
They were difficult scenes to shoot, because it was freezing cold and we were outside and there were things going wrong...
Like, it wasn't an easy shoot, but I felt more connected I think to those scenes than any that I've shot before.
>>ASTER: Obviously you're not here to convince me to stay...
Nice! Wow, that's just great!
>>VIVIAN: You can't expect things to be the way they were for us in the city. It's a different world here.
>>ASTER: No! It's not that different! You have the same choices, you're just choosing differently.
>>VIVIAN: No, I'm not. I just need time to figure this out. Why can't you see that?
>>ASTER: Because it sucks seeing it from the outside, Vivian. And that's what I am now, an outsider.
>>VIVIAN: No, you're not. You'll never be.
>>ASTER: Just admit that things have changed. You've changed.
>>NICOLE: And so it was just, like, exciting, on that level, and it was also like taking stock of how far we'd come.
So that was really cool.
>>DAN: It's amazing the writing is so economical. You know, that you shoot these short little scenes and yet,
I think we can all really track an amazing amount of developement and who the characters are,
And we get more information with every episode, and I think that's like an asset that the show has.
>>JESSY: When we shot, like, the final scene in episode eight, in the cafe. I mean that was two lines. One each.
You know, and I felt like just with that one line, like, something had happened.
>>VIVIAN: Hey. Like some company? 0:10:59.000,0:11.00.000 >>SOPHIE: Sure.
And on another topic, this is the first time for me and probably the first time for most of us,
That we've had the chance to stay with a character and develope a character for an extended period of time.
And it's just been so much fun.
>>MITCHELL: Yeah, definitely in episodes 7 and 8, I think there's the most drama, with every group that's going on in the show.
I know Sophie and I, we finally, like, have it out, instead oflittle arguments then walk away.
Like, it goes down in those episodes, to the point where you can't just go back to the status quo from there.
And just, every relationship is really building up to the point where I'm like,
"We need to start the next season immediately so we can know what's gonna go on".
>>JOSHUA: It's easy to relate because I came from a small, white community so all the things that Archibald deals with,
It's easy to call back to, I mean, it's so easy. And as a matter of fact, on of the characters that I get into it with,
In one of the scenes, he antagonizes me, it reminds me of one of my old highschool bullies. He was an older guy.
I mean, he didn't pick on me, but, he kind of did. I mean, we didn't fight but... it was just funny because in one of the scenes,
It was easy to recall, and I kinda got angry a little bit.
>>STERNS: Hey, look, it's Picasso. Did you, uh... Did you come to draw more of the student body?
You're not a big homo, are you, Archibald?
Cause I saw you up in the bleachers yesterday, drawing your little pictures of us when we were getting all sweaty on the court.
>>ARCHIBALD: Get off me, man!
>>JOSHUA: And until you're exposed to it, sometimes you just don't know. And I think that a show like this, can open people's eyes.
And it should, we should have this, you know. Because, whether it's the color of your skin, or your sexual orientation,
It doesn't matter. You know, you should be cool because you're cool.
>>VIVIAN: Well, look, I gotta get going. I gotta catch a train back to the city.
>>ARCHIBALD: Oh. You, uh... you're gonna see your boyfriend?
Girlfriend? Really? Hey, it's cool.
>>VIVIAN: Is it?
>>ARCHIBALD: Isn't it? What, you don't think we have gay people around here?
>>VIVIAN: Do you?
>>ALEXIS: That's why the show is so important because it's about acceptance. It's not about one thing or another.
It's about accepting each other for our differences, that's what makes us so beautiful. That's how we learn from each other.
>>NICOLE: Prompted by a question that my mother asked me. My mother who is, like, very supportive and really cool and,
You know, fairly comfortable, though the tag line before she tells anybody about the show is "just so you know,
There are girls kissing in this show". So, you know, to put that out there. But what's been kinda cool, first of all,
When she saw the first episode she goes "Oh, wow, it's really interesting that Vivian's dad didn't even blink when they kissed".
And that was something that fans picked up on, it was something we all picked up on, it was so cool to hear from, you know,
My parents' generation picking up on that. And I think, you know, it's a really important show in that way cause I keep...
Kind of trying to explain to her and to other adults and whatnot, that this is the way things are now. This is the way things are.
It's not even, you know, yeah, we have specific parts of the country that are more liberal than others and all, you know...
You're just gonna have that, no matter what. But in terms of our generation, it's - even those who have kind of a problem with it,
I feel like it's more like "Alright, live and let live. Whatever". That's almost the worst of it that you get in any normal basis.
And I don't know, I think that's so exciting, bringing that to the surface, I think is incredibly important.
Not only for our generation, but just to represent our generation. So I think it's something so great and such a difference about us.