My hair takes in a lot of heat! I was so fucked from the heat that I’d sort of taken it in like a solar panel and just basically wilted.” Season 1 pushes back on some of rom-coms’ more annoying tropes, but Season 2 embraces one in particular - to Matafeo’s utter delight. By the time they shot the premiere, “it was fucking hot out, but it was supposed to be winter.
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“I fully regret not thinking harder about my costume for that last scene of Series 1, not knowing I had to be in it for an entire other episode for Series 2,” she says. If it helps him feel better at all, Matafeo agrees. “I can’t ever wear that jacket again!” he groans. It was so bizarre to be recognized for something that just had come out, in the exact same costume.”Īnd about that same costume: Patel thought he’d be “really clever” by asking wardrobe if he could keep his jacket from that season finale scene without realizing he’d end up needing it again for the premiere, let alone all the Season 2 promos. “We were shooting all that stuff in the same costume in Southbank, which is quite a touristy area in London, and people who’d seen the show were recognizing us. “We never really originally planned on starting it immediately after, so we just had to go back and get the exact same bus and exact same costumes on,” Matafeo remembers. Making things even more surreal was the fact that Season 1, which ends with Jessie and Tom staying on the bus, came out the day before Season 2, which begins with Jessie and Tom leaving the bus, started filming. Season 2, however, had to figure out how and why these two incredibly different people would choose to stay together. All Season 1 had to do was show how Jessie and Tom are compatible. While the first season had plenty of rom-com roadmaps to follow, the second had to find more of its own identity. The most interesting stuff of the situation would be the immediate fallout from making such a wild decision.” “It would take all of the air out to have a time jump…there’s so much we’d be missing out on. “We were writing away from the most interesting aspect of what the story is,” says Matafeo. In fact, an early attempt at writing the second season ended with Matafeo and her co-writers (Alice Snedden and Nic Sampson) realizing that they needed to start over. Matafeo and Patel recently spoke to Variety about how the season came together, the emotionally grand (if physically uncomfortable) romantic gesture that ends it, and whether or not we’ve seen the end of “Starstruck.” Starting Season 2 by diving straight into the immediate aftermath of the Season 1 finale wasn’t always the plan.
“Season 2 feels a lot funnier to us, anyway.”
“It was a lot of fun to just write essentially a nervous breakdown in a relationship,” Matafeo laughs. Picking up mere seconds after Season 1 left off, the premiere follows the couple wandering around London as Jessie melts down, to Tom’s growing frustration. Season 2 of “Starstruck,” out today on HBO Max, doesn’t waste time before showing what that answer looks like for Jessie and Tom. “With a lot of rom-coms, you get to see the happily ever after,” says Patel, “but then you don’t get to see if and how the wheels fall off when reality kicks in.” It’s downright lovely - but it could also read as a bit more ominous, given the uncertainty of what might happen next (as is befitting, given its inspiration of “The Graduate”’s notoriously bittersweet finale). The music swells, the two turn to each other in stunned joy, and share a relieved kiss. The season’s final scene sees Jessie and Tom sitting at the back of a bus peeling away from the airport stop.
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