The heartwarming Freeform comedy returns April 8.
It’s gonna be okay becauseEverything’s Gonna Be Okayseason 2 is almost here.
(Lucky it’s such a nice house, amirite?)
Josh Thomas as Nicholas on ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’.Ser Baffo/Freeform
So is everything going to be okay?
Will Nicholas and Adam’s romance withstand the test of quarantine?
Will Matilda and Genevieve find new outlets for their creativity?
Kayla Cromer as Matilda on ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’.Mitch Haaseth/Freeform
And will there be more drag performances from Thomas?
We asked the creator/star to dish.
We started writing a bit into the pandemic.
Everyone kept thinking that the pandemic was about to finish.
I don’t want to go back to that."
It was really hard to know.
Did it make it harder to write as well?
It’s all relative, isn’t it?
We were still happy to be there every day and to get to make something really felt precious.
So where do we pick up with season 2, story-wise?
How much time has elapsed since the trip to New York?
I try and always be really vague about time.
It’s however much time you feel like has elapsed.
So, a decade?
That was the other thing, it was like, what can we actually film where everybody’s safe?
She’s not taking it well.
She has some other stuff going on as well.
Does she blame Nicholas at all for her not feeling prepared to move to New York?
She blames Nicholas, but I don’t think she really believes it’s his fault.
She just wanted something to do, but I don’t think she really knows what she thinks.
What’s going on with Genevieve this season?
Obviously she’s stuck in a pandemic too, but what does her story arc look like?
She can’t do that.
So she tries some stuff.
Now that Matilda’s in a bad place, they’re all in this caring role.
In general, is it hard writing for teenagers?
How do you get into that mind space?
I mean, I can remember when I was a teenage girl.
The whole thing about teenagers is they make so many choices that are really hard to justify, right?
Everything’s so important toIt’s like the beginning or the end.
The end or the beginning.
It’s like,this is going to be it.
This is going to be the thing I am.
This is who I am now.
And this is what I’ll do.But also Genevieve’s the most mature person on the show.
Barb (Lori Mae Hernandez) makes some bad choices this season.
Oh, I’m so happy she’s back!
Is Talulah (Ivy Wolk) back too?
Talulah isn’t back.
Do Kayla and Maeve contribute their own experiences to the story and to their characters?
So they bring that, but when we’re actually on set, that’s the script.
We do it as it is.
Does Nicholas' mom (Vivienne Walshe)make an appearance via FaceTime?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Penny’s in there.
She brings some carnage.
How isAlex and Nicholas' relationship doing?Can it survive a pandemic?
They finished last season pretty happy and in a good place.
Alex is really cemented into the family.
He and Genevieve are kind of friends now which is nice.
So we try not to wallow in grief too much, especially this year.
Any more drag performances this season?
No, I don’t think I’ll ever do drag again.
It’s a lot of tights and a lot of time in makeup.
It was fun, but I don’t think I’ll ever do that again.
Drag queens are working so hard.
Also, lip syncing is actually so difficult.
I did it once and it was fun.
It was kind of indulgent.
I think the fact I did it once is probably too many times.
Do you feel more or less pressure going into season 2 than you did the first time round?
Whenever I’m making this show, I never feel that much pressure.
It feels really private to me when we make the show.
I’m like, “Oh, I guess that was the point.”
That’s how TV works!
It’s just so much nicer to hang out with people you know than with new people.
I would so much prefer to go to a dinner party with my old friends than strangers.
Season 2, to me, feels a lot like that.
Season 1 got a lot of great reviews.
What was the feedback from the autistic community like?
When it gets good reviews, I’m relieved.
It’s, like,okay.
Then after the first two or three positive reviews, I’m sort of out.
But because there’s so little autism representation, I was worried about f—ing it up.
I just knew it was going to be important to people.
That’s actually impossible.
There’s a lot of different types of people.
We’re just trying to represent this specific person.
I was just a bit worried that people wouldn’t be disappointed, but they seemed happy.
I didn’t read anything that mean.
