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Morgan, Natasha, thank you for joining me today on Press Day.

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Thank you so much. Thanks for having us. Natasha, it's nice to see you again.

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Nice to see you again, too, I was going to say. So, yeah, I mean, I don't even know where to start. I've been asking this question

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all afternoon with the other cast members, too.

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What a ride from season one now heading into season two. The way it ended.

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I need to know, when you've read the script for season two and you're about

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to start filming, what went through your minds? Morgan, we'll start with you first.

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Yeah, I mean, it's a completely different storyline for Crystal,

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at least, and for Haley, too.

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But I think for this season, there's, you know, she's going into a different

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field now, and she's exploring the medical field.

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So I think it was really exciting to see that. And we had our own one on ones with Julie as well.

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And she kind of debriefed us on how the season might go and where they see our characters going.

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So it was really cool to see the arc that they were giving for Crystal of kind

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of losing herself and then finding herself again and doing that journey of self

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through through the season. So, yeah, it was it was really fun

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to explore. And I mean, we were getting episode two episodes at a time.

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So we were kind of getting them at chance as we were going along.

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But I think that once we started to kind of see the full picture,

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you're really starting to piece together everything. And it was a beautiful

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ride to go on, that's for sure. Natasha. Yeah. It's also just fun going into a second season of a show where

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your characters have been established. Which is like primarily the important thing in, in season one is establishing,

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establishing these characters and establishing their relationships and,

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you know, and the environment of the show.

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And so then, you know, immediately going into a second season, there's just a lot more,

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I think, added weight to each character and

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each storyline and a lot more to play with there which which

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is really fun and so yeah you know going into the second season

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i was like oof i'm gonna have to buckle emotionally

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i'm gonna have to make sure i'm getting sleep and i'm taking

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care of myself because hayley went on quite quite a

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ride this season and it's it's great what great is

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what's great is this show has a decent size fandom

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and when we were waiting for the news for a

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season two to finally get picked up and there's diehard

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fans out there what do you you hoping for they get out of the season when they tune in

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yeah i mean i hope they they fall

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even more in love with these characters i think you know

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as i said before there's a lot more room to

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play with in a second season of a show with you know sort of twists and turns

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and different directions that characters and are going and with our amazing

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additions this season with new characters sydney and and ryan who had a bigger

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part this year i just you know allowed allowed more fun in sort of,

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you know, relationships and love triangles and things got messy, but also beautiful.

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And there's some new, you know, relationships and whatnot.

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So, yeah, I hope the audience just falls even more in love with these characters and these storylines.

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Morgan? Yeah, I think to add to that, everyone...

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Brought there all this season and i think also with that

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another addition was nadine whitman as well

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who plays dr vienna and i think

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that they need to buckle up because this season is was really really fun it

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was also really beautifully challenging i think for each character and diving

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into to everyone's characters you get to see where all of these kind of trials

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and tribulations come come from, from each person from this season,

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because, you know, you, you see in from the first season, everyone is kind of

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establishing their characters, like Natasha said.

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And then for the second season, you get to dive a lot more into where that comes

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from, and the root cause of it all.

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And everyone kind of has that place within the second season.

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So it was it was beautiful to watch everyone bring bring that to their characters

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this season and and see what the writers were we're thinking of bringing as well.

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You mentioned the new cast. How did you break the new cast in?

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Because during the first season, you guys lived together while you were filming this.

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How was it bringing these, the extra cast members now in?

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Oh my gosh, it was so fun. I mean, they, they are so great. They fit in immediately

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and they were all actually living at the same hotel.

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So I think they had, they got to have a similar experience as Morgan and I,

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the rest of us had during season one, Morgan and I lived together this year in a house.

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And so we were kind of doing our own thing and being a little bit more,

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again, I was prioritizing my sleep and my health throughout this season just

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because of the ride that Haley was on and whatnot.

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But anyways, I think, yeah, I think they all definitely had some fun.

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And it was, I mean, it was a really, it was really easy.

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They fit right in and they're, you know, we're so lucky that we have such an

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incredible group of people that we get to work with every day. So it was a real treat.

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Anything to add to that, Morgan? Morgan? Yeah. I mean, she said it exactly how

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it is. Everyone fit in so well. And also they're just amazing talents and they, they.

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Get their characters so well and they brought everything that

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i would have loved to see for for

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this season so their phenomenal talents are also phenomenal humans and they

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fit right in i mean i there was no no complaints at all right um for the for

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the while you're filming this series and everything you know we have like emotional

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scenes emergencies bromance like what's your your favorite to get into?

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Good question. I had a really, I had a really fun time diving into Haley's,

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what she's going through without giving too much away.

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You know, she obviously has pushed a lot of her trauma from her past down and,

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and, you know, tried to distract herself in, in a lot of different ways in order

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to not acknowledge and accept what, what has happened.

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I think she really obviously struggles with the passing of her mom and not being

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there for her and not being able to say goodbye. And she holds a lot of regret. And that's this like, just deep,

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deep weight that is constantly holding her down.

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And she's constantly trying to find things to distract herself and to make herself feel better.

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And so for me, you know, when it was finally time for Haley to acknowledge those

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things and come to terms with those things and and accept them.

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That was really empowering and inspiring because I think it's part of the human

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experience that sometimes we want to run instead of deal.

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And so for me, yeah, it was inspiring to play and it was very raw and vulnerable,

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but really invigorating.

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And it felt really powerful. It almost felt like, you know, a part of me was

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also letting go of things and, you know, it was, it was kind of therapeutic.

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So, yeah, that was something that, that I, that I enjoyed doing. Yeah, I think.

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For, I mean, for Crystal anyways, for this season,

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her love life isn't so great or it's just maybe a little bit sparser,

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but so she's really focusing on self this season and she's really trying to

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find her way back to herself. So that was really fun to explore.

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And also for Crystal, just not being in charge all the time.

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She really has to take a step back this season because now she's a student and

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she doesn't get to be the one that calls all the shots now. She's not the one that knows everything.

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So I think her ego gets a little bit in the way for herself just at the beginning.

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And then she really starts to, I think, find her footing near the end and finds

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herself again, especially within this industry or within that field specifically.

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And being a woman, being a BIPOC, you know, someone who maybe has a little bit

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of, might have a little bit of a harder trek when it comes to, to the specific field.

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And I think that's where her and her mentor really get each other in that sense.

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And they lean on each other in that way. So that was really fun to explore for this season.

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And then who knows what happens with, with love in the end. And we'll see.

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Morgan, Natasha, I want to thank you for giving me a few minutes today for press

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day. And, you know, hopefully we do it again in another year with season three.

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Absolutely. Yes, absolutely. Thank you. Bye. Bye.