'Ginny & Georgia' Cast Talks New Season Of Hit Netflix Series

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Can facing mistakes make a person change?

That’s what we’ll find out in the third season of Netflix’s series Ginny & Georgia.

The tumultuous relationship between Georgia (Brianne Howey), and her daughter Ginny (Antonia Gentry), is back on our screens, so grab your peaches, because this season is juicier than ever.

In the latest season, Georgia’s latest antics have landed her in the slammer after being arrested for murder at her wedding in the season 2 finale.

The mother of two, who’s known to do whatever it takes (legally or illegally) to take care of her kids, is now working to prove her innocence—all while wrestling with her past.

As Ginny carries the weight her mother’s public trial and caring for her brother Austin, she’s also faced with the challenges of her teenage life—specifically in her rocky romance with Marcus (Felix Mallard) and changes within her friend group, nicknamed MANG ( an acronym for Maxine, Abby, Norah, and Ginny).

HelloBeautiful‘s Char Masona chatted with Brianne Howey, Antonia Gentry, Sara Waisglass and Felix Mallard about the new season, what we’ll see from their characters, and more.

HB: How do you think facing her past this season impacts Georgia’s survival instincts? Is there room for her to change, or is she stuck in old patterns?

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Brianne Howey: I think because Georgia has been broken down so deeply this season, there’s no other choice but to change. And I often wonder if it took something this extreme for Georgia to see that she needs to change to be a little bit more self-aware. Granted, I sure wish she didn’t have to go through these lengths to learn a lesson, but for how extreme and dramatic this season is, it does feel like all roads lead here story-wise.

HB: Ginny feels a lot of responsibility for herself, her mom, and her brother. How does she manage to carry that weight while also trying to live the life of a normal teenager?

Antonia Gentry: Well, now we see that she’s going to therapy, which is just such a wonderful tool that she has been given so that she can sort of express and articulate the things that she’s going through in a way that’s healthy, so that she doesn’t always feel so overwhelmed.

Everything happens all the time to Ginny and nothing is simple. I mean, even going to the dance wasn’t simple. Everything’s complicated.

But I think that’s just one of the wonderful dynamics of the show is that these two characters, Ginny and Georgia, are oftentimes switching roles, where Ginny is the parent, Georgia is the child, Georgia is the parent, Ginny’s the child. And now especially this season where Georgia literally can’t do anything. She’s trapped in the house.

Ginny has to now start making bigger and bigger decisions herself and not sort of just leaning on her mom to sort of cue her with what to do. She has to start making those choices herself, and I think we see a really interesting shift in her, especially by the end. And it’s a very fun shift. I think I’m. I’m excited to see this brand new version of Ginny.

HelloBeautiful also spoke with Sara Waisglass and Felix Mallard, who play twins, Maxine (Max) and Marcus.

This season, Max feels more left out of her friendships and sometimes even from her own brother. This season really speaks to how friendships and relationships evolve, especially in high school. What does season 3 say about the growing pains of friendship and how hard it can be when you feel like the world is moving on without you?

Sara Wasiglass: I would say that’s the thing I’m most excited about for this season. I just feel like getting to show that side of Max and getting to show a friendship that seems so close and then accidentally leaving someone out and the effect that has on Max’s psyche. I think that’s a really beautiful thing to portray on screen and I think it’s going to resonate with a lot of people.

I think what I would say is that the message is that you know when something like that happens instead of turning in words and being like, ‘What did I do wrong? Like, ‘Why am I too much for people?’ I think there’s a certain self-confidence that you have to have. If you have that self-confidence, I don’t think it hurts that much when you’re rejected.

Like my therapist says, the buffer of rejection is radical self acceptance. I feel like that is kind of going to be Max’s journey from here on out. It’s funny because I think anyone who talks about Max would be like she accepts herself. She’s totally confident in herself. But, I think this season you see that, maybe that’s not entirely the case. And getting to explore that different side of her was an absolute blast.

HB: This is another season of Marcus falling deeper and deeper into depression, and he’s struggling to connect with his friends, with his sister and with Ginny. What has playing Marcus taught you about connection with yourself, your loved ones, or your audience?

Felix Mallard: That is, depending on how philosophical you want to get with it, that’s the gift that acting can be in its purest form. You learn so much about yourself and you have to meet roles with an understanding of yourself and your own reactions to things. A really small aside was when I first started.acting and was learning how to do it.

I was feeling all the feelings and doing all the things and and thinking I was reacting and acting my pants off and my coach would come over and go, ‘You didn’t do anything.’ I learned that my reaction to things is just to shut down and not to actually express yourself.

So, with someone like Marcus and looking at how he deals with his depression or doesn’t deal with it and how deep he goes. It’s a real meditation on understanding yourself and your reactions to things. How I look after my mental health and what happens when I don’t. It’s a real gift if you can look at it that way.

HB: Talk to us about Max and Marcus’ relationship with Ginny, How do you think their relationships with her evolve this season?

Sara Waisglass: Well, I think that something I got a lot of after season 1 and two was, ‘Why does Max care so much about Ginny and Marcus, does she want to date Marcus?’ Which obviously the answer is no. Like, y’all are crazy.

I think that the main thing that happened with Max, Marcus, Ginny thing is that Ginny didn’t tell Max, and honestly neither did Marcus, and I think that really broke her heart. But, I think once she realized that there was true love there, she was on board and happy for her brother and her friend because she definitely knows how deeply Marcus cares about Ginny. Her promising to keep his feelings silent and let him deal with that on his own, I think is a really beautiful thing to see and quite an amazing aspect of their relationship.

Felix Mallard: I’ve always seen between Marcus and Max, they have such a similar need to be seen, to be loved, and to love others and they just approach it in different ways. He’s very quiet about it. And then, I think Max is a little bit more aware of that and a little bit more aware of her need to be loved and her want [and] need to love others. And I think for both of them, Ginny’s the answer to that, like they both are drawn to Ginny in different ways and I think she provides that space for them both to be themselves.

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