Sonia Mena Interview – Hollywood Life

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Tell Me Lies is a twisted tackle a contemporary love story. The Hulu sequence, based mostly on Carola Lovering’s bestselling guide of the identical identify, is the buzziest new present of the autumn. Sonia Mena, who makes use of they/she/he pronouns, stars as Pippa, a good friend of Lucy’s at Baird College. Whereas Lucy and Stephen’s relationship is a significant focus, the present will proceed to dive into the lives of the opposite characters of their world.

“You’ll see quite a lot of simply her journey of looking for herself. All people on this present is hiding lots,” Sonia informed HollywoodLife about Pippa. “I’ll simply say that you simply see a really prime floor of her at first. Because it goes, you actually begin to enter the depths. She’s confronted with quite a lot of conditions the place she’s bought to determine who she is and the place she stands and who she’s going to struggle for. I believe it’s enjoyable to look at the alternatives she makes.”

Sonia famous that Pippa and Lucy are the “traditional finest good friend frenemy friendship that you’ve, particularly while you’re that age, the place they’re very related, however they’re not essentially nice at speaking. They’re each people who find themselves sort of repressed somewhat bit, so you may have these nice moments of actual friendship and loyalty and similar to enjoyable madness at events, after which you may have all of those moments of by accident stepping on one another and by accident stabbing one another.”

After which when Stephen comes into Lucy’s life, that simply makes every thing extra difficult… for everybody. “We actually butt heads lots,” Sonia revealed concerning the dynamic between Pippa and Stephen. “Pippa is type of the fixed voice that no one listens to. That’s like, stay away.”

Pippa has a romance of her personal with hotshot athlete Wrigley. Their relationship is “actually completely different” from Stephen and Lucy’s within the sequence. “I believe Stephen and Lucy are fairly inner, and it looks like quite a lot of angst, along with different issues, fuels that relationship,” they stated. “Wrigley is like the massive man on campus, and Pippa is hell-bent on being the queen of events. I believe that their power is far more extroverted. There’s lots that occurs between them the place there’s nonetheless quite a lot of drama and angst, however they’re simply very completely different.”

The actor harassed that there are “undoubtedly actual emotions” between Pippa and Wrigley. “He’s such a lovable character, and he’s so candy,” Sonia continued. “I like the best way that Spencer [House] went about that character. He’s so earnestly obsessed on Pippa. You have got sort of this rigidity between two people who find themselves attempting to simply be extroverted, however then there’s a budding intimacy that I don’t suppose both of them is admittedly fairly able to cope with beneath that.”

Over the course of the season, all the characters will do “some fairly questionable issues,” in keeping with Sonia. Inform Me Lies gained’t put all the selections in strict bins. “I believe what’s so good about it’s like for Pippa, there’s quite a lot of issues that occur with Pippa and Stephen that solely Pippa and Stephen learn about. You’re watching some folks simply skate by way of these situations, and also you because the viewers know and also you’re like, ‘Oh my God, however no one else does.’ In some methods, perhaps it provides you somewhat bit extra perception into how folks can get away with this stuff,” the actor informed Hollywoodife.

When Sonia learn the breakdown for the character of Pippa, they “acknowledged quite a lot of myself in her. That was so thrilling as a result of I don’t usually see that. I believe additionally for like 2007 I keep in mind watching TV and magazines and by no means seeing or very hardly ever ever seeing anyone that appears like me, or that had points of their character that I felt mirrored myself. It’s very thrilling to have the concept of like, it’s nearly going again in time and placing your stamp on it in a manner. That was very cool to me.” New episodes of Inform Me Lies drop Wednesdays on Hulu.