By no means underestimate Diana. 'Inform Me Lies' star Alicia Crowder explains that surprising finale ending and Diana's epic plot to get again along with Stephen.
Lucy thought she had crushed Diana, however Diana refused to surrender this battle for Stephen with no battle. Ultimately, Diana emerged triumphant. In the course of the October 26 finale of Inform Me Lies, Diana and Stephen received again collectively and walked down the steps on the occasion hand-in-hand proper in entrance of Lucy — all whereas The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside” was enjoying. Merely iconic.
HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Alicia Crowder about Diana getting her well-earned “revenge” on Lucy. Alicia famous that Diana “positively pre-planned” to discover a solution to get again with Stephen. She additionally mentioned her hopes for season 2, in addition to Diana’s “deadly flaw,” particularly relating to Stephen. Learn our full Q&A under:
There are many attention-grabbing characters in Inform Me Lies. What was it about Diana that actually intrigued you?
Alicia Crowder: I feel her confidence and ambition. However on the similar time, she’s a really giving particular person, and I feel plenty of the rationale why she needs to be with Stephen is as a result of she sees a lot potential in him. He simply wants that additional push. I feel that she’s the sort of particular person that wishes to deliver one of the best out of everybody that she loves.
Lucy and Stephen’s relationship is on the middle of the collection, however Diana and Stephen’s relationship is simply as compelling. How do you suppose these relationships at their core differ from each other?
Alicia Crowder: I really like that you just say that as a result of that’s one thing that we actually labored laborious for in filming. These are two very totally different girls, and so they play very totally different roles in his life. I feel that Stephen and Diana are like equal companions. They’re very a lot on the identical degree. With Stephen and Lucy, she performs extra of a submissive position. That sort of adjustments, however it’s like, I don’t know if he essentially sees her as his mental and emotional equal.
Do you suppose Diana is really cognizant of plenty of the issues that Stephen does to gaslight girls and manipulate individuals?
Alicia Crowder: I feel that she is a bit however much less so as a result of I feel he does that much less with Diana as a result of he is aware of that’s not a tactic that essentially works on her. So he tries however now that I’m occupied with it, I feel that the gaslighting and the usage of guilt, particularly throughout their breakup scene and the entire thing together with her having slept with Wrigley earlier than they even received collectively… I feel she was actually blindsided by that truly and felt actually, actually unhealthy. However on the similar time, she’s like, that is ridiculous. The hypocrisy is simply insane, and she or he sort of calls him out on it.
I feel there’s part of Stephen that’s at all times attempting to catch as much as Diana and get to her degree. When he finds out that she slept with Wrigley, that was the primary time he discovered a flaw in her. He used that to his benefit.
Alicia Crowder: It’s simply textbook manipulation and gaslighting as a result of whether or not or not she ought to have instructed him or Wrigley ought to have instructed him is one factor. However the truth that they didn’t even know one another when this occurs and so they weren’t courting — that they had by no means even met but, which is why I feel that Diana’s so stunned by his response. I additionally suppose it speaks to Stephen’s ego. It’s very fragile.
There’s that second when Diana is performing and Lucy flaunts her relationship with Stephen in her face. It’s troublesome to observe Diana battle with what she’s seeing. What’s going by means of Diana’s head as that is taking place?
Alicia Crowder: I feel that that is one other second the place she’s taken utterly without warning. I simply considered this: so far as Lucy’s motivation, Lucy has been so publicly embarrassed by Stephen, and now it’s her flip to embarrass me, but additionally embarrass him a bit of bit. I feel that Diana is de facto stunned and the breakup is so contemporary. I imply, that’s the final time that we’ve seen her on the display. However I feel that she tries her best possible to not let it break her. She doesn’t run off stage crying in the course of the music. She finishes and actually tries to take care of her dignity and maintain her head held excessive within the midst of this insane scenario.
Diana will get again at Lucy within the finale when she and Stephen get again collectively. My jaw hit the ground when Diana and Stephen stroll down the steps collectively. There are shades of the e-book in that scene, which I really like. Diana is aware of find out how to play the lengthy recreation.
Alicia Crowder: It’s her revenge for what Lucy did to her in episode 8.
Do you suppose when Diana went to that occasion and noticed Stephen, was that her intention? Or do you suppose it was made up on the fly?
Alicia Crowder: I feel that it was totally her intention. Such as you mentioned, Diana performs the lengthy recreation. I feel that she has it in her thoughts on a regular basis, we’re going to get again collectively. He’s going to return again to me. This can be a section with this little freshman lady. He’s mine, and he at all times shall be. I feel it was positively pre-planned.
Earlier within the episode, Stephen and Lucy cross paths with Diana on the espresso store, and Diana asks Stephen about his internship. When she realizes he doesn’t have one, I used to be considering that's the first trace to Diana that she may get him again.
Alicia Crowder: For certain. It’s leverage. I really feel like Stephen and Diana are at all times attempting to one-up one another. I feel that’s a part of the enjoyable of the connection. It’s a problem. However it is a enormous factor that she has over him, and she or he makes use of it.
I don’t suppose Stephen’s good for anyone. Diana deserves higher. Do you suppose that she is aware of at her core that she deserves greater than this man who’s tossing her round?
Alicia Crowder: I feel that's her deadly flaw in that she depends upon him. I feel that Diana’s self-worth is decided by how a lot she will help another person. I feel that that’s her one flaw. She’s so assured and impartial, however she actually loves this man. She wants him, and she or he must show to the world that he's good for her and that she will be able to get him a spot at that regulation agency and every thing will work out. I feel that’s the one spot that she actually struggles with.
That occasion scene doesn’t even characteristic any dialogue. There’s simply that look Diana sends Lucy’s means.
Alicia Crowder: I feel the look is: you thought you gained, however I at all times win. It’s full revenge and getting again at her for publicly embarrassing me like that. After I was doing my efficiency with the acapella group, these are all my good pals. The individuals within the viewers all know me and find out about my historical past with Stephen. Everybody noticed that. It’s petty however I feel school ladies will be and other people will be.
Diana nonetheless doesn’t know in regards to the Macy scenario. I really feel like Diana is a fixer in plenty of methods, however how do you suppose she would deal with what Stephen did?
Alicia Crowder: I considered that, too. I feel that’s a very laborious query as a result of I feel that her morals and ethics are one thing that actually defines her. And that’s such a giant factor. I feel that if she knew the extent of the reality that it could be a deal breaker for her. That’s simply one thing you could’t excuse or sweep below the rug. I don’t suppose that she would need Stephen to go to jail, however I don’t suppose that she would essentially defend him in the identical means that Lucy does.
The finale leaves it broad open for season 2. What are a few of your hopes for the second season relating to Diana?
Alicia Crowder: I hope that we are going to get to see her and Stephen collectively extra now that they’re again collectively. It’s their senior 12 months, so it could be cool to see what her plan goes ahead after commencement, going to regulation college, and the way that may have an effect on their relationship. Possibly a few of her household, her background, her life earlier than she was in school, that’d be actually cool to discover.
Do you suppose there may ever come some extent the place Diana and Lucy lay down the gauntlet and at last see eye-to-eye about Stephen?
Alicia Crowder: I feel at this level, the way in which that season 1 ends, no. However I feel that down the road when Stephen has f**ked up a lot that they lastly come to their senses… it'd take a few years, but when they run into one another at a espresso store or a marriage or one thing, they may sit down and be like, whoa, that was horrible. We have been each victims and took it out on one another when actually we should always have taken it out on him.