“The things that were exciting to us in terms of nostalgia were the things that you don’t always remember right off the bat.” mayaerskine and annakonk take us back to the 2000s—tankinis, sleepovers, and all—in pen15show season 2.
Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle didn’t know each other in seventh grade, but by the way they play seventh-grade best friends in“It’s funny, I wish I knew Maya,” Konkle says in her Zoom tile, wearing a green tulle blouse, as her dog, George, snoozes on the couch behind her.
“At this age, you can somewhat process and understand [something] in your brain, but you don’t have the coping mechanisms or skills yet to deal with it,” Erskine explains. “And some of the ways you deal with it is by turning to your friends or trying to find different identities. Because if I become a different person, maybe that will fix whatever this thing is that’s happening to me or that I’m seeing.” That’s true of Maya and Anna this season, as they dabble in wrestling, witchcraft, theater.
Take the girls’ sexuality and sexual desires, which were taboo, if not condemned, while boys openly made dick jokes at school and in movies. “In real life, Maya felt internal shame for her private discovery of sexuality, which we showed in Season 1, while I was publicly ridiculed and sexualized and called a slut before I was ready to be at all sexual, which we show more in this season,” Konkle says.
Maya, who is half-Japanese in the series and in real life, includes elements of her heritage and the shame that entails for an Asian girl who’s just trying to fit in. In one episode, a friend laughs at Maya’s mother’s “really thick accent,” which is based a real high school experience. “I hated being ‘othered,’” she says. “My friends didn’t mean anything by it, but as soon as they said my mom had an accent, it felt like I had to defend her American-ness.
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