Having received strong reviews, the series recently secured a second-season renewal from Freeform.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How’s your quarantine going?
JOSH THOMAS: It ebbs and flows, it ebbs and flows.
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Definitely having a job has been nice, like having stuff to do has been good.
Today we sent some documents to the connection, that was good.
You’re breaking season 2, right?
Mitch Haaseth/Freeform
In the midst of the worms and everything.
I mean, it’s different.
All year, just so optimistic, just thinking, well, maybe next week.
So we’re about to go into phase two, where we expand the size of the room.
Have you been talking about starting production and what that would look like?
No one knows when we’re starting, so everyone’s constantly making calendars with different start dates.
What are these start dates based on?
But the rest of the time, I’m just focused on trying the best way forward.
What kinds of things did you want to bring more into season 2 or less into season 2?
I don’t think about it that much after I’ve made it.
[Laughs] Every episode I’ve had so many weird experiences on.
I have to take five years away to watch it again and know whether it was good or not.
I want more of the other actors that aren’t me, that’s what I really want.
In the first season, you explore Matilda’s sexuality and particularly queer sexuality.
What was that process like for you?
Did you feel nervous about executing it appropriately?
They want more independence in that area.
I wanted to make a story about that, so that’s where we came at it from.
Yeah, Freeform, they’re not shy, right?
That’s first of all: is my research stacking up?
Other than that, they’re open to going into difficult territory.
That’s what they want me to be doing.
I would imagine those calls would be maybe helpful, too, to work through what you’re doing.
I actually really like notes calls.
I’m probably one of the only people.
Are you drawing from personal experience there?
How are you thinking about it going forward?
And then dated another boy for two years.
I’ve been single for the past year, but before that almost never.
So long-term relationships: I know how they go.
To make a story with a happy couple is a challenging writing task.
But two people that are together because they’re happy and they decided to be together that day?
I don’t know how much I want to watch that.
And yet you are writing it.
Ugh, this happy couple.
I don’t know, that’s something that we talk about a lot.
And I definitely was always frustrated that we weren’t better at it.
In Australia, I’m pretty vocal about how bad it is that our television isn’t diverse.
I’ve been really interested in both of them.
There was a conversation about, “Is this the right kind of gay to put on TV?
“, which I really always f—ing hated.
It always made me feel icky, but I understood it.
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