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Spoilers are everywhere in this.
Dont say we didnt warn you.
(A second isalready in the works.)
If so, what is up with the journals Shauna found at her house?
The duo did their best to be honest about as much as they could, unlikesomepeople.
(Misty, that cigarette thing was not cool.)
Here is an edited and condensed version of our conversation.
Ashley Lyle:It has been so surreal.
I cannot stress that enough.
Like you said, even over the past two weeks, theres been this shift.
It feels like more and more people are watching, which is obviously really exciting for us.
But its also a little anxiety producing, too.
Its like, Oh yes, people are watching!
Of course Im just sitting there on Twitter the whole fucking time.
And Ive definitely dabbled in Reddit.
Then Bart, whos a little less active on social media, gets everything filtered through me.
Im always like, Look at this meme.
:There is a concern that I have about that, but thats more intellectual.
You never want to tip from one into the other.
All right, so: the finale.
Im going to ask a question thats going to sound ridiculous, but humor me.
We see that Jackie appears to have frozen to death.
Is there any reason we should believe shes not actually dead?
:First of all, I dont think thats ridiculous at all.
Now, I will say Jackies presence will loom very large throughout the show.
Were those supposed to be things Jackie had written?
Or is this, again, a perception thing?
:They were not meant to be things that Jackie herself had written.
Can you say more than that?
:I will say, we did not necessarily anticipate people screen-shotting that the way they did.
So to our minds, it was a character Easter egg, and not a plot Easter egg.
Shauna at some point does return from the wilderness, as we know, because we see Melanie Lynskey.
What would that be like for her?
How would she manifest those feelings of guilt?
A.L.:Yeah.
Are you trying to be ambiguous about that?
The question of who she is will eventually be answered.
To our minds, its a very natural thing for girls to share clothes.
I shared clothes with my best friend in high school.
And in those circumstances, you just need to keep your feet warm.
A.L.:Exactly.
Theres something that Juliette Lewis has said both at ourVulture Fest paneland alsoin the New YorkTimesabout Natalies arc devolving.
That control is coming from the mystery and what she sees as this conspiracy of Traviss death.
Shes clinging to that.
Maybe we are just fucked-up.
Maybe we just cant see the world for what it is.
But Shaunas also talking about herself because thats exactly what happened with her and Adam.
You were correct in thinking that something is going on here.
We knew we had to get her to that brink before we could validate her experience.
Truthfully, when we shot the pilot, we werent discussing all of that arc with her.
When you shot the pilot, had you finished writing the whole season?
:No, it was just the pilot.
We hadnt even started to break the season.
You never want to tell your collaborators something as though its concrete when it can change.
:No, he is not involved in that organization.
Again, a fair question.
Yeah, youre right.
If you havent already, I feel like you guys should have lunch with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
:I mean, one, that would just be so cool.
But there are times where Im afraid that Im lessening the experience for myself.
I have a question about Taissa.
People arent sure if theyre imagining it or if its intentional.
Is there anything it’s possible for you to say about that?
It can look extremely unnatural when youre putting green contacts on Jasmin Savoy Browns brown eyes.
And in the case of the reddishness, that is essentially a consequence of the colored contact situation.
Sometimes I just think the universe is helping you out a bit.
:Yeah, for sure.
And then, how does she reconcile that?
When you say benefiting, what do you mean?
A.L.:Yes.
Will we get to see more of some of these girls as adults?
That is absolutely the intention.
Are you taking casting suggestions?
:We are definitely taking casting suggestions.
:Were in early stages.
We have not cast anybody yet.
And people have made some really brilliant suggestions.
:There have been some really brilliant adult Jackie suggestions, and Im like, Oh …
But yo, give us what you got.
I just want Claire Danes to be involved in some way.
I dont know how or why.
Angela Chase for life.
If we have this opportunity to write this script, were going to do what we want with it.
So we did script the Liz Phair and the PJ Harvey.
Those were really important to us in terms of setting the tone.
And I believe we also scripted Informer by Snow.
They just felt so right to us.
Have you started writing it yet?
:Were getting underway.
Bart, you said earlier you have a blueprint for multiple seasons.
Do you have an ending in mind?
Is it that specific yet?
How many seasons do you imagine it being, ideally?
:We originally pitched it as five seasons.
To some extent thats just a function of how you have to pitch a show.
But we have no interest in beating a dead horse or dragging things out longer than the story dictates.
