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— for instance there’s Custer, a mole for the police working on Fezco’s operation; also Laurie, the kitschy druglord who politely threatened to sell Zendaya’s addict protagonist into slavery — Nate Jacobs was notably diabolical. Watching him and Cassie’s sex-fuelled car-wreck of a relationship was entirely a matter of waiting for the other shoe to drop — forcrying? Now, it transpires, in a pandemic-less alternate time, the worst couple on TV may never have happened at all.
At least, that’s how Alexa remembers it. At a For Your Consideration event at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, areporter asked the actor about “the biggest change” she’d encountered in a script for the HBO show. “Well, the whole of season 2!” said Alexa, wearing a sheer and shimmering black gown that will probably be displayed in some sort ofmuseum one day. “We went to a table read, and it was an entirely different thing.
“So is Cassie with Nate in the original?” the reporter asks. “I don’t think so! I have a very selective memory, but I don’t think so,” she says. We already tend to err on the side of— though as i-D’s Róisín Lanigan writes in a defence of Sydney Sweeney’s character, “no more so than I am an apologist for any of the other flawed, broken, ugly characters in the relentless, unforgiving universe that Sam Levinson created for them to live in.
Maybe she would have spent time working on her broken relationship with her sister, and had a more active role in Lexi’s play. Or used the time she spent