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‘We Were Liars’ Creators & Author Explain Why Expanding The Teenagers’ Social Consciousness Was “The Most Important Part” Of The Adaptation
'We Were Liars' author E. Lockhart and show creators Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie unpack privilege and social knowledge in Deadline interview.
As the summer progresses, they increasingly at odds with patriarch Harris Sinclair (David Morse), matriarch Tipper (Wendy Crewson), and their daughters Penny (Caitlin Fitzgerald), Carrie (Mamie Gummer) and Bess (Candice King). It’s the arrival of Carrie’s boyfriend Ed (Rahul Kohli) and his nephew Gat, middle class New Yorkers of Indian descent, one summer when the three Sinclair cousins — Cadence, Mirren and Johnny — are young that provides fodder for the discriminatory dynamics of the older generations to clash with those of the younger. “We had already seen a scene where the Liars don’t necessarily make that confrontation,” MacKenzie told Deadline, calling back to an earlier moment in the fifth episode when Harris uses the words “oriental” and “China Girl” to describe a woman who procured ivory for him and Tipper.
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