Part of the novelty is revisiting your favorite trends from yesteryear, like tankinis and butterfly clips; another is seeing the unspoken, hormonal weirdness of your adolescence on-screen and realizing that you weren’t alone. “There will be a month where a kid all of a sudden has a voice that is 10 octaves lower than it was last month,” she says. She was pressured into being Scary Spice, because she has “dark skin” and had to play a servant. I was like, 'F you!’”,Filming for Season 2, which will be split into two parts, with the back half premiering sometime in 2021, was almost fully wrapped before COVID-19 shut down production in March, meaning that by the time they get the green light to resume those last few scenes, the teen actors — with all their growth spurts and changing hormones — may look slightly more mature. Melora Walters and Mutsuko Erskine, who portray Maya and Anna's mothers, sound off on everything from the role of clothes as a battleground to the impossibility of being a mom. “[The timeline] doesn’t make sense.” Arguably, though, that allows the show to more deeply explore the highs and lows of growing up.Take the girls’ sexuality and sexual desires, which were taboo, if not condemned, while boys openly made dick jokes at school and in movies. Local headlines and stories are HeadTopics.com immediately.Major companies like Walmart and Amazon among donors to a QAnon-promoting lawmaker,Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be remembered with statue in her native Brooklyn,Letter sent to White House containing deadly poison ricin intercepted, officials say,Supreme Court Vacancy Offers Democrats, Republicans Fresh Way to Energize Supporters,19 U.S. L.A. Theater. The fact that we get the opportunity to put it in our show in a way that normalizes this half-immigrant household is so wonderful. Just a given. Oh, Just Maya Erskine's Boyfriend, NBD,Netflix's Ratched Takes Place in Lucia, CA, but the Depiction Differs From the Real-Life Town,Did Any of the Crimes on Netflix's Ratched Actually Happen? “The things that were exciting to us in terms of nostalgia were the things that you don’t always remember right off the bat.” mayaerskine and annakonk take us back to the 2000s—tankinis, sleepovers, and all—in pen15show season 2.The comedic duo tackle slut-shaming, divorce, and maternal relationships in their sophomore season.Sep 18 2020, 3:00 pm EDTCourtesy Hulu / Design by Ingrid FrahmMaya Erskine and Anna Konkle didn’t know each other in seventh grade, but by the way they play seventh-grade best friends inPen15,you would think that they did.“It’s funny, I wish I knew Maya,” Konkle says in her Zoom tile, wearing a green tulle blouse, as her dog, George, snoozes on the couch behind her.“I wish I knew you too,” Erskine gushes from her square, in a red ringer tee and gold necklace. And nothing ended up happening with him. “And some of the ways you deal with it is by turning to your friends or trying to find different identities. Here's What You Need to Know. After Maya and Anna have a dalliance with a boy at the school dance, gossip spreads and kids are calling them “sluts” by gym class. And own the range of sexuality that girls and women feel. “I think we would’ve been best friends.”“I think we would too.”The now-33-year-olds met years after middle school, while studying at NYU, but they bring their destined adolescent friendship to life in their hit Hulu series, where they portray versions of their tween-age selves in the 2000s among actual teenagers and tweens. Maya, for example, continues to explore her new favorite pastime of masturbating. Maya started featuring her mother, Mutsuko, in homemade film projects when she was in school at NYU, and now, Mutsuko plays her mom on the hit show. “We don’t have a lot of writer’s room experience, so we tend to follow the emotional arcs before anything else,” explains Konkle. But that was my whole life and identity.” Says Erskine, “Our show is about something that feels so small in hindsight and it’s actually the most dramatic thing in your life at that time. The self-loathing this subconsciously taught us was often then.given outby us to women and girls.”That also carried into Maya’s and Anna’s relationships with their mothers, with the former clashing with her immigrant upbringing and the latter clinging to her dad during his divorce. “We thought we should have it in a scene here and there, not as just a joke, but to show that it is still continuing and will continue for the rest of her life.” Plus, she’s still using the AIM username Diper911 (“It’s viper with a D”), as first introduced in the episode “AIM,” centered around the lost art of AOL Instant Messaging — something that’s a foreign concept to today’s teens, some of whom also happen to be Erskine and Konkle’s co-stars. Erskine's onscreen mom, Yuki, is portrayed by her actual mother, Mutsuko Erskine. “It’s sort of like the Simpsons,” teases Konkle. It’s a constant search for a new identity,” notes Erskine. In one episode, a friend laughs at Maya’s mother’s “really thick accent,” which is based a real high school experience. When I was a kid, I thought I had a slope nose, but then when I was 13, my friend’s mom would say, ‘Did something happen? If you happen to … Maya, yours is a tender conversation when you and your mom are in the bathtub, and it’s with your actual mother, Mutsuko Erskine. “This happened in middle school and probably in our 20s ("And 30s," Konkle chimes in) of guys gaslighting you and leading you to think, ‘Yeah you’re hot but I don’t want to be seen with you in public,’” says Erskine.

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