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So it was a very unique challenge to figure out what to do after what we did at the end of Series 1 - it could have totally ended there.
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Rose Matafeo: Sequels to rom-coms are notoriously tricky, because the whole nature of a rom-com is that you end on some sort of idyllic, aspirational cliffhanger ending, where you fill in the blanks of they lived happily ever after. Season 2 is essentially what happens after the end of a rom-com. She also weighed in on the pleasures of writing and playing a woman with real flaws and broke down just how famous Tom really is.Įmma Sidi and Rose Matafeo, Starstruck Mark Johnson/HBO Max
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In advance of the HBO Max premiere of Starstruck Season 2, Matafeo spoke to TV Guide about harnessing that new-relationship energy for Tom and Jessie. Matafeo pointed to a scene in Season 2 featuring a massive argument over what turns out to be a game of Bananagrams: "That sort of energy of a new relationship, I love." For inspiration, the New Zealand actress and comedian looked to movies about couples who bicker but still turn each other on, like the 1934 mystery The Thin Man, the 1940 screwball comedy His Girl Friday (Season 2 features a His Girl Friday wink that she calls "the nerdiest Easter Egg I've ever had"), and the newlyweds of the 1967 romp Barefoot in the Park. Matafeo, who wrote this season with Alice Snedden and Nic Sampson, grounds the characters in complexities that make them feel real while still injecting the story with the thrill of classic romantic films.
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Season 2 picks up in the aftermath of Jessie's decision to stay in London to be with him rather than fly home to New Zealand, her grand romantic gesture giving way to panic as reality sets in. The first season followed Matafeo's Jessie as she repeatedly crossed paths with and reluctantly fell for Tom ( Nikesh Patel), a famous actor she'd hooked up with on New Year's Eve.
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It's the focus of the show's second season, out now on HBO Max: a fresh spin on a romantic comedy sequel that's buzzing with the anxiety of a new relationship. Starstruck's breezy, bite-size seasons are just one of its pleasures, but it's fitting that Matafeo would be in tune with the fear of commitment.