Maya said she thinks that she repressed the "pain" associated with some of her middle school memories, because to her, they were always funny. Making the show with her own experiences has changed how she looks back at her tween years.
"I would, as a defense mechanism, tell [those stories] in a humorous way as a way to cope with it, and then as you're writing in the writers' room, you start to find that the hole opens up a little bit of that pain. It just kind of cracks open, and then when you're on set, it cracks open more... I'm realizing newfound revelations about those experiences that I didn't really think about even when we first put them in the scripts.
"Fortunately the reality for a lot of people [is that] it's uncomfortable, liking someone or kissing for the first time. So there's this inherent kind of distance, I think, that fortunately feels natural for our characters," Anna explained That allows for a lot of wide shots of the two actors standing far apart, while extreme close-ups are used for both laughs and for allowing a body double to step in.
"Let's see the kiss. Let's go right up close," Anna said. "Fortunately that allowed us to use adults to do the making out."
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