'Cheerleaders always fascinated me because they're doing this brutal, dangerous sport, but they have to wear this smile,' Abbott says.
. And he had this great idea that the girls would be the one pop of color in this sort of gray, muddy-looking, weary city. And so it was this great collaborative effort to try to bring this interior life of teenage girls to a visual form."What were some of the differences in adapting the book you wrote in 2012 for a show in 2020?
"Things like social media and texting were obviously a big part already in 2012 but now, you know, really it's a big tidal shift in terms of the way communication works. But I also think these are the realities of being a young woman. I think that these mechanisms for communication may change, but all those core feelings of those really intense female friendships at that age, that can often have all these erotic and romantic shadings — that never changes.
"I would have to explain about words being this armor but that the love is always there. And, that relationships will really form the basis of every relationship to come thereafter for young women. So I do think something exciting about this moment is that we no longer have to be, like, subterranean about these complex feelings. It’s all right there, much more openly on the surface. And I do think in this moment of extreme anxiety, I think there's much less stigma about that too.
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