Liv Hewson Is Worth the Buzz
. They know you need the dirt on what happens to their character, Van, and how things fare with her love interest, Taissa. Yet, despite some cajoling, they refuse to let a single spoiler slip. “I just feel like a red dot is going to appear on my forehead any second,” they joke over Zoom. Hewson is currently in Vancouver filming the final two episodes of the highly anticipated second season, which returns this spring. “The talking points I got were a list of things I couldn’t say.
. Hewson originally auditioned for teen Shauna , but after a few weeks, they got a call saying the producers wanted them for Van, a character with only a few lines in the pilot. “I was like, ‘Great, who’s that?’” says Hewson. After going back through the script, the character clicked. “I had such a strong sense of who she was. I thought, ‘I’m going to take very good care of her.’”
And while there was no mention in the audition script of Van being gay, Hewson says, “I remember reading it and going, ‘That character is a lesbian.’” When filming the pilot in 2019, Hewson says they kept that in their mind, thinking, “I don’t know if the show will ever talk about this, but I’ll know.”
But for the first few years of their career, Hewson thought they could never come out professionally as nonbinary, even though they were open with people in their personal life. “My close friends were using they and them pronouns for me, but nobody was [using them] at work. And it sucked,” they say. “I genuinely believed I would have to lie about it forever. I expected that in order to work, I would have to keep it a secret.” But eventually, the cost of staying quiet became too painful.
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