'Inform Me Lies' is the present everyone seems to be speaking about. Sonia Mena spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HL about exploring the 'depths' of Pippa's character, what is going on on between Pippa and Wrigley, and extra.
Inform Me Lies is a twisted tackle a contemporary love story. The Hulu collection, primarily based on Carola Lovering’s bestselling ebook 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 lots of simply her journey of looking for herself. Everyone on this present is hiding lots,” Sonia instructed HollywoodLife about Pippa. “I’ll simply say that you just see a really high floor of her to start with. Because it goes, you actually begin to enter the depths. She’s confronted with lots of conditions the place she’s obtained to determine who she is and the place she stands and who she’s going to battle for. I believe it’s enjoyable to observe the alternatives she makes.”
Sonia famous that Pippa and Lucy are the “basic greatest good friend frenemy friendship that you've got, particularly whenever 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 type of repressed a little bit 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 chance stepping on one another and by chance stabbing one another.”
After which when Stephen comes into Lucy’s life, that simply makes every little thing extra sophisticated… for everybody. “We actually butt heads lots,” Sonia revealed in regards to the dynamic between Pippa and Stephen. “Pippa is form of the fixed voice that no person listens to. That’s like, keep away.”
Pippa has a romance of her personal with hotshot athlete Wrigley. Their relationship is “actually totally different” from Stephen and Lucy’s within the collection. “I believe Stephen and Lucy are fairly inner, and it looks like lots of angst, along with different issues, fuels that relationship,” they mentioned. “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 lots of drama and angst, however they’re simply very totally different.”
The actor burdened 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 with Pippa. You might have type of this rigidity between two people who find themselves making an attempt to only be extroverted, however then there’s a budding intimacy that I don’t assume both of them is absolutely 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 received’t put all the choices in strict containers. “I believe what’s so good about it's like for Pippa, there’s lots of issues that occur with Pippa and Stephen that solely Pippa and Stephen find out 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 person else does.’ In some methods, perhaps it provides you a little bit bit extra perception into how folks can get away with this stuff,” the actor instructed Hollywoodife.
When Sonia learn the breakdown for the character of Pippa, they “acknowledged lots 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 elements 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 approach. That was very cool to me.” New episodes of Inform Me Lies drop Wednesdays on Hulu.