WHY ‘GINNY & GEORGIA’ SEASON 3 PUSHED ITS MAIN Characters to Their Breaking Point

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Sarah Lampert, The Creator of Netflix’s Hit Series Ginny & GeorgiaKnew Going Into Season Three That She Wanted to Bring Her Main Characters to Their Breaking Point So They Could Rebuild Their Relationships.

While It’s Always Been “The Two of Us Against the World” for Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and Georgia (Brianne Howey), This Latest Installment Puts That Test. In Season Three, Georgia Is On House Arrest Durying Her Trial for Murdering Cynthia’s (Sabrina Grdevich) Husband, Tom. However, WHEN HER ACTIONS START TO TEAR DOWN EVERNONE AROUND HER, INCLUDING HER Children, Ginny and Austin (Diesel La Torraca), Georgia Has to Look Inward Force.

“Entering Season Three at the Top of the Season, We Chatted with [psychologist] Dr. Taji Again and We Were Like, ‘If We Were Going To Bring Them To A More Healed Relationship, What Wuld Wuld Have To Happen?’ And she said, ‘you’d have to break georgia,’ ” Lampert Tells The Hollywood Reporter of Their Mother-Daughter Relationship. “Georgia Needs to Feel Like She Really Might Lose Her Kids, and Only Ten Could She Change and Want To Change.”

And that’s exactly what the Show’s Creator Did this Season. Not only Did Georgia Have Her Kids Taken Away from Her and Husband, Paul (Scott Porter), Left Her, But She ALSO HA ENTIRE Personal Life BroadCast for the World. Someone Who Is “Always Running from Her Trauma.” At Same Time, Ginny Was Forced to Step Into More of An Adult Role and Make Some Huge Decisions to Keep Her Mom From Going to Prison.

Below, Lampert Unpacks of Season Three, Choosing to Show Different Sides of Georgia and Ginny, The Decision to Ultimatel not Convict Georgias. A FIFTH SEASON).

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What was your Overall Goal with this Season, and do you feel like you have your accommplished it?

YES! The Overall Goal Was To Continue to Evolve the Story. What I Love About the Show is it Really Does Feel Like An Artistic Endeavor in that It Provides A Lot of Space for Different Artists to Kind of Bring Their Own Stamp Into It. I THINK THAT FANS CONNECT TO IS THEY CONNECT TO The Heartbeat of All The People Who Work on the Show, Coming Through the Characters. SO My Goal Is To Continue To Evolve It and Surprise People. I’M A Storyteler, I Love Telling Stories. I Feel Like It’s Such A Living, Breating Thing, Making A Show at All Stages in the Writing, On Set, In Post, But Also In Fan Reaction. SO WHEN YOU GET CERTAIN FEEDBACK FANS, IS ALMOST LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF A CHERLENGE WHERE IS LIKE LET’S SEE WHAT We ​​Can Do Next, Right? So i love surprising people. Typically in a season Three, you wouldn’t expose your Main Character’s Every Secret and Explode of the Entire World, But That’s Exactly What We Did.

How did you juggle all the digferent Heavy Storylines and Shocking Moments While Making Sure the Season Didn’t Feel Overloaded?

The Show Is Made Up of Big Swings and Small Moments, and I Think Both Are Equally Important. Obviously There’s A Lot of Big Swings, But If You Don’t Believe The Characters, It Just Feels Cheap, and You’re Nota Be With Them in the End. So i’ll leave it up to the Viewers to Tell me kinder or not we acchieved that. But for US, we work Really Closely with Mental Health America. We Also Have A Psychologist, Dr. Taji, Who’s Been with US Since Season One, Who We Really Planed The Mental Health Journy of All of the Characters Across All The Seasons with Her. SO REALLY GROUNDING The Stories in As Much Truth and Small Moments As Possible and Making the Characters Feel Really Real, and Ten Ultimately The Credit Goes to The Performances. The actors on our show are so dynamic and able to tone jump and they have to be very brave to do the show Because Our Tone Goes From Camp to Heavy to Dance to Fun, You. Talking About Mental Health and The Next Moment We’re Spraying Reporters With A HOSE (Laughs). IT’s Such A Weird Beast.

In Past Seasons, Georgia Rarely Showed Her Emotion Side, But This Season, She’s Really Pushed to Her Breaking Point. Can You Talk About Showing A Different Side of Georgia This Season?

It’s Funny You Say Breaking Point, ‘Cause that’s Exactly What Our Theme Was of the Season. IT WAS Breaking to Rebuild. And the reason for that is how’s back in season one who and talen to dr. Taji, A Quippy Line in the Show that Georgia Says to Ginny Is, “It’s The Two of Us Against the World.” D Dr. Taji Highlightned that is Really Unhealthy. SO I WAS LIKE, Let’s Lean In, Let’s Go Really Strong On That. And that Really Became of Theme of Their Relationship, SO NOW Entering Season Three at the Top of the Season, We Chatted with Dr. Taji Again and We Were Like, “If We Were Going to Bring Them To A More Healed Relationship, What Wuld Wuld Have To Happen?” And she said, “you’d have to break georgia.” She would have to get to a point whot sheer she finally understood that her acts have repercussions, specialty on Her Children, Because isa not. IT’s UP to Georgia and Ginny Should Form Vary Strong Boundaries, and Georgia Needs to Feel Like She Really Might Lose Her Kids, and Only Ten Could.

Yeah, I did not expert zion (Nathan Mitchell) and Gil (Aaron Ashmore) to Pull Up and Have Ginny and Austin Taken from Georgia in Episode Five, “Boom Goes The Dynamite.

There are so many false endings in that episode in particular, and I love surprising the audience. If you’re watching at home and you’re like, “What the hell?” That’s the goal. D Her [Howey] Performance Is Devastating in that Episode WHEN She SINKS TO HER KNEES AND THEN YOU JUAR Like Ginny’s Voiceover, “I Just Want My Mom.” It’s Like, Oh, Stab Me in the Heart, and Ginny’s Going in One Car and Austin’s Going in the Other and Zion’s Part of IT. It’s like not you, Zion. IT’s Great!

As for Ginny, She’s Really Forted to Grow Up Quickly This Season and Make Some Massive Decisions to Keep Her Mom Out of Jail. What was it like shifting her basical into a mini georgia in the Latter part of the Season?

It Really Is A Coming-of-Age Story, Both for Ginny and Georgia, and now Maybe Even A Little Bit for Austin. But For Ginny’s Journy this Season, What’s So Fascinating About That Character and What Specifically [Antonia] is the Master of the MicroExpression WHERE IS JUST AnyTime the Cameras on Her, You Know The Rich Inner World That’s Happening. She’s so deeply present, she’s Feeling Things So Deply, But To Start Ginny in Such A Place of Being SO Vulnerable, So Out of Control, So Feeling Like The Walls Are King In. Like She Goes to School That Day, But It’s Just Cause She have no iDea whata the hell to do. And What’s Interesting About the Bookends of that Character in this Season Is The Opening Scene Is Her Walking Down The Hallway Being Like, The Walls Fel Down, I Don’T Know What I’M Doing. And you she dressed up up, she have makeup on, she did her hair that day, shee got an outfit on, and you see shee she dosn’t know what to do in the vacuum of Her Mother not Being. She’s Trying to Be Her Mother, But It Feels False, Right? By the end of the Season, It’s Real. She’s taken on the role of georgia and it’s actualized.

At the end, Georgia seamed shocked to see that ginny is actuly just like her. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS?

IT REALLY STARTS A FEW EPISODES EARLIER, ACTUALLY, WHERE She REALLY DOES REALIZE THAT SHE’S GONNA LOSE Her Kids. She’s Really Up Against A Firing Squad this Season in the Sense That SHE HAS TO SIT AT HOME ALONE, LOST Her Kids, and The Who World Judges Her, DiagranoSes Her, Tels Her Shee. I MEAN, FOR A WOMAN WHO Nver Really Likes to Sit in Discomfort and Is Always Running from Her Trauma, Running from Her Past, Putting on a Mask, Being A Chameleon, Playing A PART, PART, PART Painful Way on Such A Public Stage is What Breaks Her. But then what actuly Breaks her soul is the moment in episode 10 WHEN Cynthia Says, “You must be so proud, shee just like you.” And then she confronts Ginny and Says, “I KNOW I’M A MONTER, But I’M A MONTER SO YOU DON’T’T HAVE TO,” Because that is how’s she justifies All of Her Behavior in Her Her Her Her. She’s Protecting Her Kids. So for ginny to say we’ve always Held the weight Too, you Never Did What You Thought You Were Doing, It Was Always Also On Us, that Breaks George’s Soul.

It Seemed Like Half This Season Was Filmed Inside Georgia’s House Since She Was On House Arrest. DID YOU Ever Feel Limited with That?

I Really Credit Netflix for Not Even Batting An Eye Who We Pitched George, Our Main Character, Being in Her House The Whole Season (Laughs). HONESTLY, I KNEW THAT SHE’D BE ABLE TO GET INTO Just As Much Trouble Locked in Her House As She Wuldy Weather Else. And in Fact, for a Character Who’s Always on the Move, I Thought It Was Quite Beautify to See Her Caged and To See What HapPens Whoe She’s Notawed To Be on the Move. Away from Her and Slipping Through Her Fingers. SO on a Character StandPoint, IT Was The Most Interesting Choice We Could Make. But in terms of makeing a hit pop culture TV Show, Is Locking Away Your Main Character in Her House Like the Smartest Move? I don’t know (Laughs). I Never Questioned It, To Be Honest, But Now In Hindsight I’M LIKE, YEAH, that Was A Wild Choice. What a gamble.

Especially in the Current Political Climate, WHY WAS IT IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO INCLUDE Ginny’s Teen Pregnancy and Abortion Storylines This Season?

I Think One of the Beautify Things About the Show Is It’s Just Heart to Human, Right? We’re Trying to Reflect the Human Experience and How Messy and Hard That Can Be. So for ginny, it’s all about putting her up to against the same kind of situations that georgia was in this season, whother it be the fear Confronted with Being A Teen Mom and Making the Choice That She Makes There and Having Georgia Support It. I Think We’re Really Just Trying to Tell TheSe Authentic Stories Because there’s No Right Way to Be a Woman, Right? IT’S MESSY OUT there is.

Can You Talk About the Decision to Ultimately Have Austin Blue Tom’s Murder On His Dad, Gil, To Keep Georgia Out of Prison, Because there Weare Definitely Semes. WHERE I TONOUGHT GEORGIA WAS ACTUALLY GOING toing CONVICTED?

OH, I TONOUGHT ABOUT IT. I Wrote a Full Scene with that being What Happened Institute, Just To Play With It, And There Was Like A Maybe She Bust Out of Jail Thing. Here’s the Beauty About the Show, We’re Crazy (Laughs). We’ll Surprise You!

IT WAS Always the Plan from Season Two, to Be Quite Honest. We Knew that We Wanted A Murder Trial in Season Three. We Knew We Wanted Her to Get Arrested at Her Wedding to The Song “Going To The Chapel, Baby” After Her First Dance, Like That Was All Locked In. But wew that in order to do a murder trial in season throne, we needed her to kill someone in wellsbury, ’cause we don’t want to travel, like the murder Trial h. Tom of It All Came About. But How The Austin Piece Came to Be Is We Realized that if we didn’t want georgia to go to prison, we needed a Fall guy. And so in the episode “Kill Gill,” the surprise of that episode was, are we gonna kill gil? And the Answer is no, we can’t because we need him to be our Fall guy for season throne.

Following Such A Wild Season, What Can Fans Expect From Season Four, and Do You Already Have Ideas in Mind?

YES, SO THERE’S ALREADY IDEAS IN Mind. The beauty about getting a season four, Honestly, is that all of the writers are returning, so they reality Know the Show, they reality Know the Characters and they’re totally Down to Play. And I Wish The Fans Could See the Writer’s Room. I Think the’d Lose their every loving shit. It’s Just Such A Fun, Dynamic, Live Place to Be, And So The Reason I Say That Is Because Yes, There’s a Certain Ideas That We Know Going Into Season Four That Way Wan. But Really How Went Each Season Is We Have Like One or Two TentPole Ideas, Right? Like for Season Two, She’s Gonna Get Arrested on Her Wedding. That’s what we’re going towards. But Beyond that, Really What We’re Just Trying to Honor Is Where The Characters Are Mmotionally and What the Relationships Are. So on wea realy hone that in and that feles real, then we get to pitch wild, fun, crazy plot Things. SOason Four is still being works on, there’s nothing confrete Yet.

After Season Two, I Had Spoke with Ten-Showrunner Debra J. Fisher at the Time and She Said You All Pitched A Four-Season Show to Netflix Initally. With the Series Already Being Renewed for a Fourth Season, Do You See Ginny & Georgia ending with that or could you see It Going Longer?

We did pitch a Season Four Show. That just seized like a good Number (Laughs), But Honestly, While We Were in the Writer’s Room Currently for Season Four – I like to do each season by theme, and theme is the state We Were Really Battling Two Different Themes for Season Four, and We Realized There’s More Story To Tell Here. SO IT’S NOT UP to US, WE DON’T KNOW, But I WILL SAY THERE IS more SERORY THAT COLD BE TOLD.

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Season Three of Ginny & Georgia is currently streaming on netflix, and check out The Hollywood Reporter‘S Interview with Star Antonia Gentry.