![]() “It's hard as an actor, if you’re playing summer 2000 roles and you have no clue whether or not your character is telling the truth or if the other person is telling the truth. “They told us nothing along the way, and we kept asking who did it,” she says. As each episode unravels, more and more secrets are exposed-which is also more or less how Underwood learned about her own character’s fate. ![]() As the three timelines unfold-summer 1999, winter 1999, and summer 2000-we witness the rocky beginning, steadfast middle, and chilling end of an intense friendship and love triangle that leaves the boy involved dead … and that’s only a brief synopsis. So far, that layering includes the complications that tend to arise with teen female friendship as Isabella, the intense but fun-loving daughter of diplomats who has spent more time abroad than in America, comes to stay with Megan (Sadie Stanley) and her family in the Pacific Northwest for the girls’ senior year of high school. The absence of phones makes viewers wonder during stressful scenes: What would they do in a situation like that? And it’s safe to say the teen drama wouldn’t be nearly as fun to watch if characters had them anyway. “Let’s leave that in the past.”Īs a teen growing up just before the turn of the millennium, Isabella-Underwood’s character in the Freeform series-has no problem getting by without a phone. I just couldn’t imagine what you do if you don’t have one,” she laughs. “If I’m at a party, I am really good at just slowly creeping in a corner and being on my phone. “Listen, I wish that I was a ’90s teen for the fashion, for brownie points, and just to be cool, but I’m also okay with being a teen now,” the Cruel Summer star tells over Zoom, sitting casually on what looks like the floor and talking animatedly. Portraying the quintessential ’90s teen seems to be her sweet spot. ![]() But it’s not something she’s particularly worried about when she’s acting-despite having been born in 2003. Lexi Underwood is aware of the “smartphone face” sensation. ![]()
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