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Cruel Summer is backmost with adjacent much throwback vibes. The highly-anticipated season 2 premieres connected June 5 and takes america backmost to the summertime of 1999 erstwhile Isabella, a overseas speech student, arrives successful Chatham and changes Megan and Luke’s lives forever. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Lexi Underwood and Griffin Gluck astir however Isabella shakes things up betwixt longtime champion friends Megan and Luke.
Lexi Underwood arsenic Isabella. (Freeform)
“When Isabella archetypal comes to town, this is Isabella’s archetypal clip being backmost successful the States since she was born, truthful she is coming with this thought of what her elder year, each American precocious schoolhouse beingness is going to beryllium and what it’s going to look like,” Lexi told HollywoodLife. “When she sees Luke, she instantly becomes infatuated with him. Isabella is the benignant of idiosyncratic wherever erstwhile she wants thing she’s going to get it, and she doesn’t backmost down. But she sees successful Luke this benignant of cleanable all-American lad that she’s ever seen successful similar TV shows and movies, and she instantly truly conscionable latches herself onto him successful a sense. But implicit the span of the adjacent year, you truly get to spot their friendship, relationship, is much than conscionable infatuation. They genuinely are friends. They genuinely bash attraction astir each different and each other’s feelings”
Isabella winds up staying with Megan’s family, which creates an “interesting dynamic.” Lexi admitted that Megan is not “feeling her [Isabella] astatine all” initially. Lexi continued, “Obviously, Luke and Megan… that’s Megan’s territory, truthful the information that I’m entering this abstraction that she’s ever known and she’s ever had that relationship, that connection, with Luke, the information that I’m entering it successful a consciousness feels similar I’m an intruder. It’s a tricky narration [for] the 3 of them to navigate done that.”
Luke, Megan, and Isabella successful ‘Cruel Summer’ play 2. (Freeform)
Griffin pointed retired that Isabella is the “catalyst that really wakes Luke and Megan up to they who they are to each other. They were these champion friends for truthful agelong and successful a consciousness Isabella’s stepping successful and encroaching connected this territory.”
He added, “But nary of them person immoderate thought she’s really encroaching connected territory. Luke and Megna are oblivious to the information that they really similar each other. They’ve known each different their full lives. They conscionable person that level of comfortableness built in, and they don’t admit it until Isabella shows up… She is the catalyst that a) sets things into question and b) makes things complicated.” Cruel Summer airs Mondays connected Freeform.
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