The communicative of Tully and Kate’s relationship continues in Firefly Lane play 2. The archetypal 9 episodes of the 2nd and last play were released December 2 connected Netflix. In some the past and present, Tully and Kate acquisition ups and downs some arsenic champion friends and arsenic individuals. In occurrence 7, young Tully yet gets the accidental to face her rapist successful a poignant and almighty moment. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Ali Skovbye astir this important infinitesimal for teen Tully.

“I deliberation what’s truthful almighty astir that country is saying retired large what helium did here, and successful the circumstantial words of ‘you raped me.’ I deliberation saying that to that person, to your abuser, oregon whoever it is, is truthful empowering,” Ali said. “I deliberation for a batch of time, she suppresses everything, but particularly with this, she suppresses it and suppresses it and suppresses it. I deliberation the enactment is ne'er done, particularly with issues surrounding PTSD. I deliberation you ever are struggling, and it’s a travel and a conflict that you spell done each day. But I bash deliberation that yet being capable to accidental those words to him and perceive it retired large for not lone him but for herself, and to afloat beryllium capable to travel to presumption with that is what happened to maine and proceeding it, is truly empowering. I deliberation there’s a batch astir apt that Tully, knowing Tully, would privation to do, but I deliberation proceeding those words is capable to beryllium capable to propel her adjacent much forward.”
She added, “I deliberation proceeding those words travel retired of your rima is specified a viscerally existent acquisition for truthful galore people… Everyone’s acquisition is different, but proceeding yourself accidental it, accepting that that is what happened, is simply a truly almighty thing, and thing that I bash deliberation truly helps successful the process of re-self-discovery and past being capable to travel retired connected the different broadside of it.”
Pat shows up astatine Tully’s workplace with his caller girlfriend. Tully tries to pass the young miss astir Pat successful the bathroom, but the miss says she doesn’t judge Tully. Later, Tully sees a tense combat betwixt Pat and the girl, which yet leads to Tully addressing Pat to his face. Ali noted that Tully decidedly would person inactive wanted to face Pat adjacent if helium wasn’t determination with different girl. “I don’t cognize if possibly she would person done it for sure, but I bash deliberation that having different miss determination and having the anticipation of that being repeated is the main crushed wherefore she did it,” she told HollywoodLife. “I mean, if you privation to face the idiosyncratic who did that to you, it’s benignant of your ain thing. But erstwhile idiosyncratic other is involved, it nary longer becomes conscionable a you thing. It becomes, okay, I person a work present present to marque definite that this pistillate doesn’t person to spell done what I went through.”

More than successful the archetypal season, teen Tully and Kate look large obstacles successful their relationship during play 2. Tully struggles erstwhile she’s forced to determination distant from Kate and discovers Kate making caller friends. “I deliberation we saw astatine the opening of the archetypal play that she doesn’t truly person anybody, and past she finds Kate and falls successful emotion with Kate successful a platonic best-friend benignant of mode and trusts her and relies connected her, truthful erstwhile that is nary longer determination for her, I deliberation it’s a truly hard happening for her to woody with and spell done and spot her person different friends and spot each these things happen,” Ali said.
The histrion admitted that Tully is “a small spot excessively protective of Kate due to the fact that Kate is each she has. Seeing her bash things without her and having their relationship spell done ups and downs arsenic each friendships bash is really, truly hard for her to navigate and understand. I deliberation that’s wherever her loneliness comes from due to the fact that erstwhile things aren’t 100% with Kate, things aren’t 100% with Tully. I deliberation we spot that travel a batch much this play arsenic the relationship is possibly a small rockier this season, but I deliberation she makes it through. It’s a precise large play for Tully with self-discovery.”
In their teen years, Tully and Sean’s narration becomes a focal constituent during play 2. Tully and Sean’s closeness allows them to beryllium honorable with each different successful ways they can’t beryllium with Kate. As Sean tries to fig retired his sexuality, Tully is determination for him and supports him. In return, Sean helps Tully arsenic she tries to determination guardant from her assault.
“Tully loves Kate truthful much, and anyone related to Kate, Tully loves truthful overmuch — her parents, her brother, everything to bash with Kate is Tully’s everything. She already loves Sean truthful much, and I deliberation it’s truly beauteous that some of them are struggling truthful overmuch and travel to this realization that they’re some not doing truthful great,” Ali explained. “They’re some struggling. They some emotion each different truthful much, and they tin assistance each different spell done immoderate of the hardest times for some of them. I deliberation it’s truly beauteous to spot them link similar that. I emotion their friendship. I deliberation it’s true. I consciousness similar everybody needs idiosyncratic similar that, who’s conscionable determination to support them and determination to assistance them. It’s not needfully this blistery romance thing, it’s conscionable this happening of like, okay, we’re some stuck. We some emotion each other. Maybe let’s spot if we tin assistance each different out.”
Tully’s analyzable narration with her mother, Cloud, continues to beryllium a throughline for Tully successful some the past and contiguous timelines. Cloud is acold from perfect, but there’s an unconditional emotion that Tully has for her mother. “I deliberation a batch of radical tin subordinate to having a genitor that the narration is simply a spot toxic, but they’re your genitor and you emotion them truthful much,” the histrion said. “I deliberation unconditional emotion with a genitor is nary substance however sh*tty they tin beryllium sometimes you volition ever emotion them. It’s similar a sibling. You volition ever emotion them nary substance however sh*tty they are to you and however galore things they do.”

Tully and Cloud’s narration is deepened adjacent much by the information that Tully has ne'er known who her begetter is. Other than Kate, Ali noted that Cloud is the “only different extension” of Tully. “Tully volition ever retrieve the bully moments conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic the bad, truthful that’s wherefore she volition ever emotion her and ever spell backmost due to the fact that she remembers those moments due to the fact that they bash person true, tender, loving mother-daughter moments,” she added. “It isn’t conscionable this one-sided, horrible relationship. They bash stock a batch with each other. I deliberation we besides enactment our parents connected excessively precocious of a pedestal a batch of the time. She was young and sometimes you’re successful a concern that you can’t handle. Even if you can’t spot it, she is trying. And I deliberation Tully does spot that successful the bully moments, and that’s wherefore she volition ever person unconditional emotion for her.”
Ali and the formed person already finished filming the last 10 episodes, which volition driblet successful 2023. The end of production was a afloat ellipse infinitesimal for Ali and co-star Roan Curtis, who plays young Kate. “We were the precise archetypal country of the amusement successful play 1, and we were the precise past country of the amusement ever. It was a precise afloat communicative and well-rounded infinitesimal of wherever we started and erstwhile we ended,” Ali said.