And also - just because I love drama - I loved when she finally kicked me out of the house. And to me that was such a sweet moment because it was a changing of a dynamic between the two of them. Keiko Agena: There is one where we do a tiny, tiny shot of us having a drink with each other. Us Weekly: What was one of your favorite scenes with Emily Kuroda? Jimi Celeste/Getty Imagesįor more, read the rest of her Q&A in our Now and Then series: Keiko Agena and Alexis Bledel attend the WB Casting Call presented by Clean & Clear at the Puck Building in New York City on May 15, 2002. Maybe they would have explored that story line a lot longer.” (Pai was a coproducer of the show.) “I definitely think they would have. “I think they would have invested more time in it - just because Dave Rygalski is Helen Pai’s actual husband’s name and they are still married,” the 13 Reasons Why star tells Us. In real life, Brody left the series after he snagged the role of Seth Cohen on The O.C. After all, she was once smitten with his former bandmate Dave Rygalski, played by Adam Brody. Lane and Zack may have never happened, though. I think once you invest in the idea of where someone is going then you’re not fully open to being able to play the opposite of that if that’s what the character is going to do.” “The strange thing about being an actor is it’s almost a little dangerous to invest in an idea. It’s almost like a gift that’s been given and just being surprised and enjoying that part of it,” she explains. So in a weird way I’m an audience member to her and I know that sounds strange because I play her but I’ve always been someone to discover. ![]() It’s reactive to the written material that’s given. “It’s so funny because my relationship with Lane is very reactive. The couple stayed together in Netflix’s 2016 revival Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, but Agena is unsure about their future. But the beleaguered school counselor played by Derek Luke may have it right when he tells Clay, you can just never tell.Todd Lowe and Keiko Agena in ‘Gilmore Girls: A Year in a Life.’ Neil Jacobs/Netflix The overall message - one that probably appeals to teenagers - is that it’s possible to figure out why someone takes her own life, and therefore to guard against it happening to others. You might find yourself skeptical, though, despite the undeniable veracity of some of the show’s depictions of high school angst. (It also throws in a groaner of a pretext for a possible second season.) In the last four episodes, two directed by Jessica Yu, one by Carl Franklin and one by Kyle Patrick Alvarez, it achieves a momentum and gravity somewhat equal to its subject matter. Minnette (“Scandal,” “Awake”) is one reason to make the effort - it builds up some cumulative force. If you stick with “13 Reasons Why” - and the watchful, smart performance by Mr. It makes no sense as anything but a plot device, and you’ll find yourself, like Clay’s antagonists, yelling at him to listen to the rest of tapes already. Instead he listens to the recordings one at a time, and keeps confronting the other characters - quizzing them, arguing with them, fighting with them - without knowing the whole story, or his own role in it, even though he could find out with just a few hours of binge listening. To parcel out the surprises and stretch the drama, the Netflix Clay, unlike the novel’s Clay, chooses not to listen to the tapes in one sitting - as any normal teenager would, and as the other fictional teenagers in the show do. It too often feels artificial, like a very long public service announcement.Īnother problem is a storytelling contrivance that quickly becomes irritating. But the show doesn’t make her downward progress convincing. ![]() ![]() We’re meant to see that there’s an emotional and practical order to these events - Hannah’s diminished standing and waning self-confidence lead to new incidents of bullying or abandonment.
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