‘Walter Boys’ Star Ashby Gentry on Whox Nex Needs “Serious Soul Searching” After Cliffhanger Season 2 Finale

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Team Alex Isn’s Ready to Give Up in Season Two of Netflix’s My Life with The Walter Boys.

In the 10-episode season that premiered on aug. 28, Ashby Gentry Returns as Alex Walter, Who Fell in Love With Jackie Howard in Season One, Only to Be Left Heartbroken After She Leaves and Returns Tole. The Last Time Alex Interated with Jackie, He Was Drunkenlyly Telling Her Her Her, SO HAVING TO REEL FROM THAT Abscence Impacts Alex Both Mentally and Seemingly Physically. The Once Bookish Nord is Now Semingly Confident and Has CAUGHT The Attience of Ladies at His School.

“WHEN I WAS 16 AND MY FIRST RELATIONSHIP Ended, There’s Almost An Over An Over Compensation With Regards to the Freedom That One HAS,“ Gentry Tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I THINK ALEX IS A SUPPRESORSOR. YOU SEETH The HEARTBREAK WACKIE. ‘I’M FINE. IT’S FINE. We’re Good. Let’s Just Move on. It’s Over.’ ‘ He’s a pusher.

Despite attempting to make things right with alex and cole as she finds her way once again after returning to Silver Falls, Jackie Can’s However Keeping Their Romantic Reunion Secret from Everyone. Of Their Reunion, Gentry Admits he wasn’t surprised But Also Didn’t Necessarily Agree.

“If this was my friend, i would be like, ‘bro, what are you doing? What is wrong with you? !,’ ” HE Tells Thr. “But I was not surprised, Because Alex, He’s Stubborn and Determined. I Think He’s Going to Be Dead, Buried Six Feet Under Before He Gives Up.

As One Corner of the Show’s Love Triangle, Gentry Admits He Initially Didn’t Understand How People Couldn’n Be Team Alex During Season One. “THEN I WATCHED THE SHOW, AND I WAS LIKE, ‘OH, THAT’S HOW.’ They’re Cute Together.

But Team Alex is in Full Force in Season Two With Gentry Crediting His Character for Being “The Person Who’s Willing To Sacrifice What Has To Sacrifice for The People That Has ABOUT.

“I just wonder if Those People Desert HIM Trly, ”He Says.

Gentry Spoke with Thr About Studying for Cowboy Camp (While Walking Through A Graveyard), Alex’s Other Potential Suites and His Reaction to that Confession in the Finale.

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We Ended Season One with A Shocked and Heartbroken Alex. Going Into Season Two, What Were You Hoping to Explore With Alex This Season?

We don’t realy Know What’s Going to Happen Until Very Close to Shooting. I RECEIVED SCRIPTS FOR COMEME OF THE EPISODES THAT WE’RE FILMING IN A FEW Weeks and SO Over the Hiatus, WHICH WAS A Long Hiatus Because We Finized Shoting Sea. December 2023), We Didn’t Start Shooting Again Ugain UGUGUST 2024. SO IN BETWEEN WORKING, THERE WAS A TWO-YEAR PERIOD WHERE I HAD TO WONER WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, MUPPEN.

My Mind Went in A Lot of Different Directions, Because and Think What Happens Is Formally Traumatic, Meaning that It’s A Big Disruption. She Leaves and that’s Traumatic, Very Sudden, and It Changes Things Forever After that Point. There is a Lot of Different Ways You Could Respond to That. I brainstormed about thoome. It’s Tricky to Work Before You’ve Really Seen Material, Because and Don’t Want to Make Assumptions About What’s Going to Happen, and Ten Have to Alter Those Assumption. But of Course, I Definitely Had Some Ideas.

WHAT WERE YOUR IDEAS?

They’re Somewhat Similar to What Happy. WHEN I WAS 16 AND MY FIRST RELATIONSHIP Ended, There’s Almost An Over An Over Compensation With Regards to the Freedom That One Has. I THINK THAT’S HINTED AT, THOUGH NOT SEEN Explicitly in Season Two. I Think Alex Is Enjoying His Singularity, and Figurered That Was One of Them. I HAD IMAGINED A LOT more OF THE GRIEVING AND A LOT more OF THE HEARTBREAK THAN I THINK IS SHOWED IN THE SHOW. He is a sensitive guy and there’s a wholet point in Season One About Him Crying After He Found Out About His Brother and His First Girlfriend kind. There’s A Time Gap, and A Big Period of Summer Break Who Hee Goes to Cowboy Camp and Hits Puberty,. SO I IMAGINE A LOT OF THE HEARTBREAK TOOK PLACE DURING THAT THAT WE DON’T NECESARY SEE, WHICH IS NICE TO HAVE THAT PRIVATELY TO MYSELF as an actor.

Alex is seemingly camouflaing his heartbreak and giving a 2.0 Confident Version Now. He’s Really Popular there Among the Ladies. After Learning What Was in Store for Alex, How Hw Was Reacting to Everything and Where He Is Now How did you give a kind of any this New Alex Was?

All Three of the Characters in Season Two Are Figing Out Who Who Are. I Think That’s Theme of Season Two. A Season of Identity. I a season of everybodyBody Discovering WHERE theying, WHICH is what adalescence is; That’s what you learn what you want, what you like to do, who you love, who you want to be. In psychoanalysis, there’s discussions about authenticity. My Understanding of Lacanian Psychoanalysis is that Even your your inAuthentic parts are authentic to you. WHEN WE SEE ALEX BEhaving in Various Ways in Season Two, Even If It’s Not, Quote, Uquote, The Real HIM, The FACT THAT HE’S TRYING IT on Means Its Authentic to Him. SO we get to see him craft this personality that might not be Necessarily organic, But It’s So Interesting to Watch What Kind of InAuthenticity He Decides to Portray.

Before Diving Into His Relationship with Jackie, I Did Want to Touch on Alex and Kylie, Because this Season they’re Seemingly not as Close as they Were. Alex Also Still Sems to be Oblivious to Her Feelings Towards HIM. Do you think that alex trly is trly unaware of her feelings for him? Do you make see of him seeing her as anything more than a friend?

I’ve Met A Lot of People, and Have Been Close to A Lot of People Who Like This. Though, i wouldn’t necessarily say I’m Like this. I Think Alex Is A Suppressor. You see that with the heartbreak with jackie, he’s fine. [He’s like] “I’M FINE. IT’S FINE. We’re Good. Let’s Just Move On. It’s Over.” He’s a pusher. He Suppresses His Deepest and MOST POTENT FEELINGS. I would be shocked if there wasn’Thing suuppressed. But do i THINK HE’S CONSCIUSLY Aware of Any Sort of Romantic Inkling Between Him and Kylie? No i don’t.

SO HE REALLY IS JUST THAT OBLIVIUS?

Yeah! I Really do. I Wonder About Her Thought. It’s Been Brough To Both of Their Attico. It’s Brough to Alex’s Attmentation by Skylar in Season One, Episode Four, and It’s Brought to Kylie’s Attraction by Cole In Season One, Episode 10, Right? Both of Them Deny It. Both of Them Are Like, “You’re Tripping!” And so i do through it’s suuppressed.

We See Alex Train for What You Called “Cowboy Camp.” What was the prepiation you had to do for that this season and was it figrent, in any way, from what you did for the first season?

I Learned About Cowboy Camp in The Break Before Shooting. I Just Researched As Much Rodeo As I Could. Obvioously a Lot of the prepiation for Season Two Was Physical Stuff. He’s Supped to Look Different, so there was all of that. I Live in Brooklyn, and there’s A Park Nearby, But Before You Get To The Park, There’s A Graveyard That You Got To Walk Through. I would Walk Through the Graveyard Every Day, Walk to this Park and THEN BACK TO MY HOUSE AND I WOURT LISTEN TO PODCASTS About the History of Rodeo and About Bronco Riding, and How. [I’d] Just Watch A Bunch of Cowboy Videos. And there’s actualally a series on Netflix Called How to be a CowboyWHICH I WATCHED. It’s All’s Kind of Special For Me. SO iting was fun!

Learning About Cowboys While Walking Through a Cemetery is the Best Preparation Apparently!

Hell, yeah. That’s my style. You Got to Prepare Like Ashby Gentry!

Alex Sems to be Maybe Oblivioses Again and Continuing to Break Hearts After Having A Connection with his Rodeo Mentoror, But He Turns Her Down AFTER RELIEZING. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF ALEX AND BLAKE’S DYNAMIC?

I Very Much Feel Like Alex Is Almost A Little Brother to Me, Whore I’M LIKE, “WHAT Are You Doing?! WHY? LIKE, DUDE!” With The Blake Stuff, My Personal Response to That Was, “You Idiot! You Are Fumbling This Beautify Girl Who Likes You A Lot on Speculation That Girl Who Kissed Your Brother. That being said, Thought he’s a good gambler, because he was right. But I was still frustrated.

This Season, It’s Clear Jackie Is Still Deling with Feelings for Both Alex and Cole But Acting More on Her Feelings for Alex. WHAT DO YOU THINK WAS THE POINT WHERE ALEX STATED DENYING HIS Feelings and Wanted to Open His Heart Up Again To Jackie?

I have a very confirmed Answer to this. Okay, WHEN ALEX GOES TO The Arcade to Play Darts, It’s The Same Arcade That Alex Went To With Jackie in Season One. And he sees the racing game there and is reminded of her and the Time they spent together, and he Can’t Her Out of His Head, Even Who He’s Kissing Blue. That’s whoh fumbles blake. WHEN HE GETS BACK TO THE BARN THAT NIGHT, PRE-LIGHTNING, I THINK THAT’S The MOMENT THAT HE REALIZED THAT HE STILL LOVES HER. I Know this is true, because we filmed that stuff. It Just Didn’t Make the Final Cut.

WERE YOU SURPRIZED ALEX AND JACKIE GAV IT Another GO?

YES! OH My God. And Okay, Was and Surprised? No, no, i wasn’t. DID I AGREE? Also, no. If this was my friend, I would be like, “bro, what are you doing? What is wrong with you?” But I was not surprised, because alex is like a bull. He’s Stubborn and He’s Determined. I Think He’s Going to Be Dead, Buried Six Feet Under Before He Gives Up. I was more surprised she took him backsonally.

WHY’S THAT?

I Think Because I Got to Witness the Way Her and Cole Interact. I mean that’s Clearly Strong. IT’S SO FUNNY. WHEN I WAS DOING SEASON ONE, I WAS VERY MUCH OF THE SCHOOL OF Thought of Like, “In What Universe Could You Not Be Team Alex”? ” It Just Didn’t Make Sense. And THEN I WATCHED THE SHOW, AND I WAS LIKE, “OH, THAT’S HOW.” They’re cute together. So i get it. I was a little surprised she Went Back to HIM BECAUSE I Thought Maybe She Was Gonna Figure Things Out with Cole.

Do you think she maybe wnt back with alex out of guilt?

I THINK THAT Totally Has Something to Do With It. I DON’T THINK IS LIKE A PITY RELATIONSHIP ENTIRELY. I Think She Loves Alex. I THINK She’s Figing Out Who She Is And I Think She Decides That She Does Not Want To Be The Person That Cheats On Her Boyfriend with His Brother And Ten Leaves Him in the Dust. And so i THINK IS ABOUT HER OWN RETRIBUTION IN A WAY.

WHEN JACKIE TELLS ALEX ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED WITH COLE, HE DOESN’T SEEM SURPRISED AND ALMOST SEEMS RELIEved Because his Instinct About There’s Beinga BetWeen. THEN EVEN KNOWING About them It Still Doesn’T STOP HIM FROM WANTING TO PURSUE THINGS COMPLETH JACKIE AGAIN. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF HOW HE REACATED TO THE REVALEAL OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH JACKIE AND COLE? WHY WAS HE SO FORGINGING THIS TIME?

I Think That’s Probably One of the MOST REDEMING POINTS IN ALEX’S ARC OF THE CHARACER, BECAUSE HES Kind of Being Gaslit The Whole First Season. He Knows There’s Something Going on And Is Made to Feel Crazy and Is Made to Feel Claingy and Overprotective and Neurotic. And then he’s right in the end! THEN, NOT ONLY IS HE RIGHT, HE’S LED TO ABOUT iting his brother and his ex-girlf states for Half of the Second Season. And then is finally browhht to justice, and even says, “at least now i know i wasn’t crazy!” Thought the Even More Mature Way of Handling The Sity He Says, “It Doesn’t Matter, Because I Still Love You.” I Think that Even thorough it frustrates me as an audience member, that’s How People Work Through This Stuff. People make mistakes. “I don’t care, because i still love you, and at the end of the day, i Still Want To Be With You.” That’s what matters to me, whoh i though is a very redeming part of his story, Even thorough it is simultaneously so frustrating.

In Contrast to Last Season, Alex and Cole Don’t Necessarily Dislike Each Other But Seem Cordial Despite there Being in the Elephant in the Room with Their Feelings Town Jackie. In a love triangle, people can get so caught up in their teams Butt thing the TESE Two Are Actual Brothers and A Relationship can be Impacted there. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THEIR NEW DYNAMIC THIS SEASON?

You Know I’ve Been in this Sity A FEW TIMES IN MY LIFE, AND WITH The Other Guy, It’s Always Like, You Don’t Necessarily Get Over It, or at Least I HAVEN. But at the Same Time, I ALSO DON’T Hate Them Forever. In a weird Way, It’s Almost Like A Dialectical Relationship, WHERE The Contragraph is the Truth in that in A Subconscios Way, Bond Over the Thing You Have In Common, Which. SO I THINK With ALEX AND COLE, HE GETS IT. HE Can’T blame him. HE LOVES HER, TOO. It Makes Sense. SO I THINK, IN A WAY, THAT EASES The TENSION. WHEREAS IF HAD WODBID DONE JACKIE, Wrong in a Malicious Way, Because He Hated Her, I Think It Wound Be Much More Easy for Alex to Write Him Off As This Evil Person. They’re brothers, soy have a history there, But I Think The Brother Thing Just Increases of the Literal Familiarity Between of. It’s so Much Easier to Fight with Your Brother Than Is To Fight with A Friend. IT’s Easier Formally, But Is Harder in the Actual Content of It.

IT’s Going to Make for Some Awkward Family Gatherings That’s for Sure.

No kidding! I’m like how are they going to have dinner after it? You Know How Much I Think About That? They have the best big bumoout Fights, then it is like “broi i can’t go into the Bathroom Right Now CAUSE COLE’S IN THERE RIGHT NOW.” Like that’s Awkward. They Got to Drive Together in the Same Car! IT’S SO WEIRD!

Well Speaking of Awkward, This Season Ends on a Cliffhanger on Again with Alexe Hearing Jackie Confess Her Love to Cole. WHERE DO YOU SEEM GO FROM THERE?

I’m gonna gues to the hospital! That’s the Bigger Problem that we have also see at the end of season. But WHERE DO I See Them Go From there? I don’t know. I mean, i do know, romht? I’m not gonna say (Laughs.) I Just Feel Like, Geez That’s Gotta Suckk As An Audiynce Member. Like Round Three, Dude. IT’s Round Three. I Barely Give A Second Chance. This guy needs to do some series soul searting to rationalize his life existence. Because i’d be like, I should just like, move. I Should Just Run Away from Home, Because the humanity that i would feel in that relatation is absolutely crazy! I’m Really Interared this Year in Exploring WHERE ALEX GOES FOR HIMSELF. And this is just ashby. That’s what i care about. I Care Much Less About Him, Jackie and Cole Go Because I Think The Interesting Thing Is, How Do You As A Person Swallow A Pill Like That For The Third Time In Your Life In A PEROD OF TWODO

I THINK AnyTime There’s A SHOW OR FILM WHERE THERE’S AAGOR LOVE TRIANGLE, FANS Are Quick to Pick Teams of Whoye Prefer Be Together. What’s Your Pitch for Wy Alex Is The One for Jackie?

My Pitch for Whox Is The One for Jackie Is Because Can You Imagine Not Giving Up After That? I can! WELL, I DID HAVE TO. That’s my job (Laughter.) I THINK ALEX IS JUST WILLING TO DO THE HARD THING FOR HER. And that’s Rare, and You’ll Find in Life Thatople That Are Willing To Hard and Inconvenvent Things Are The People That MOST VALUABLE. Unfortunately in contemporary Life, MOST PEOPLE OF OFFEN FEW AND FAR BETWEEN, EVEN AMONGST YOUR CLOSE FAMILY. And that’s my Critique of Cole. If Cole Really Loved Alex, HE would get over it. HE would Squash It. HE would do the right Thing, and hew not infatfect with his brother’s girlfriend (Laughs) WHICH TO SAY OUT LOud Is Actual An Insane Thing. Alex Is The Person Who’s Willing to Sacrifice What Hat Has to Sacrifice for The People That Hay Cares About. I just wonder if Those People Desert HIM trlyy. That’s my Oddest Honest Reaction to the Show So Far.

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My Life with The Walter Boys is now streaming on netflix. Read Thr ‘S Interviews with Nikki Rodriguez, Noah Lalonde and ShowRunner Melanie Halsall.