12/3/2023 0 Comments Cruel summer episode 7![]() ![]() We see Kate confide in her therapist about what really happened between her and Martin before she was locked in the basement. I think it was so important for us to showcase what this situation is and to not glamorize it and not romanticize it but show it in a real, honest way. As Blake said, I think we’re all so used to seeing these kinds of relationships romanticized in television and film, and it’s not okay. We really had to dive into what exactly gaslighting, grooming, manipulation, what all of those were, and how we were going to execute them correctly. We were getting scripts every other week, and when we got this one, I was like, “Oh, so we’re really going there.” It was just a lot of communication. Olivia Holt: I wasn’t really familiar with grooming up until pretty recently, maybe a couple of years before we started shooting this show, but I feel like I had to dive a little bit deeper into the research and education on it because we were really going to a deeper level than I ever could have thought. For me, it was just the open dialogue between Olivia, Tia, and me for the most part. It was this weirdly bizarre thing about discussing age and power dynamics. One of our producers had a gym teacher at her school that had dated a student and then they ended up getting married. I think we found it very refreshing to be part of a show that was going to do an honest depiction of it. I think our industry often makes it seem like it’s okay and it’s not. I think that that was what was so exciting, to be part of a project that was going to be depicting it in a real way, where you don’t root for these people. Olivia and I, especially for this episode, talked a lot with Tia and Alexis Ostrander, our director, about the power dynamic, the student-teacher relationship, and how immediately off the bat, even back to episode 1, none of us want to romanticize or glamorize this. Tia Napolitano, our showrunner, kind of had an open-door policy where it was just a constant, open dialogue. ![]() What kind of research did you both do to prepare for that exploration of this emotionally manipulative and toxic relationship between Martin and Kate?īlake Lee: We’ve said this before, but the whole process was so collaborative. The concept of grooming is almost completely ignored. Student-teacher relationships or student-authority figure relationships are often and mostly romanticized onscreen. Plus, Olivia teased a moment between Kate and Jeanette in the season finale that will “change everything.” Read our full Q&A below: Olivia Holt stars as Kate Wallis. ![]() Olivia also opened up about Kate’s “guilt,” and Blake weighed in about what was going through Martin’s head when he locked Kate in the basement. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Olivia Holt and Blake Lee about exploring the complexities of grooming and the unfair power dynamic between Kate and Martin. He locked her in the basement, and she was powerless over him. When she wanted to leave and go back to her life, Martin refused to let her go. Kate and Martin formed a romantic relationship while Kate stayed inside his house for months. Kate went to Martin’s house willingly at first, but his grooming and gaslighting tactics manipulated her into thinking he was her safety net. More layers behind what led to Kate’s captivity were revealed during the penultimate episode of Cruel Summer.
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