A lot can change in a few short years. Technology moves quickly, and so do colloquialisms. But when Megan Abbott and Gina Fattore were adapting Abbott’s 2012 novel “Dare Me” for a…
,” and now the show of the same name, explores themes of friendship, sexuality, competition, murder and power through the world of high school cheerleading. Addy and Beth have a complex dynamic in which Beth is often the alpha, with Addy as her No. 2 — both on and off the field.
“It was a much more binary world in 2012, and now one of the most exciting things about this moment is all of those binaries that were false to begin with are being dismantled. That was something that we really wanted to explore,” Fattore says. Although Abbott admits there was nothing added to the show that was explicitly left on the cutting room floor of the novel, one area she was particularly personally excited to expand was the inner workings of Beth.
“I didn’t start the process by laying out the events of the book on cards,” Fattore says. “I realized I didn’t have to go as fast. These are rich, amazing character [with an equally so] world to explore. We wanted to let the characters grow and move, and then one of them would die.” But before getting there in the series, she stresses the importance of making sure the audience would “care about the characters” first, so that they would “feel the loss that comes and the complications. To do that you really want to live with them awhile.”
“We had these amazing discussions about, ‘Here is a woman who is not going to smile,'” Abbott says of working with Fitzgerald, as well as pilot. “We’re used to women having to smile and be warm and maternal, especially as leaders, and so it was a fascinating journey where we just kept presenting this character as, ‘This is who she is and this is how she leads.'”
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