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‘We Were Liars’ Star Emily Alyn Lind on That Shocking Twist, Playing an ‘Unreliable Narrator’ and Why She Feels the ‘Story Hasn’t Quite Ended’
'We Were Liars star Emily Alyn Lind breaks down the show's insane twist.
The surprise twist, which has been one of the book’s biggest talking points over the past decade, is that 17-year-old Cadence (Lind), the youngest member of the elite Sinclair family, is the only survivor of a fire that killed her cousins Johnny (Joseph Zada) and Mirren (Esther McGregor), and family friend (and her love interest), Gat (Shubham Maheshwari) — the close-knit group who’ve been dubbed “The Liars.” So as the story flashes back and forth between one summer and the next, with Cadence trying to piece together what happened to her, the reason she can’t remember anything is because of the trauma of watching her friends die — meaning, the present-day version of the Liars have been ghosts all along, or figments of her imagination (think “The Sixth Sense” style). “We Were Liars” follows Lockhart’s book closely, beginning with Cadence waking up on a beach with amnesia, and struggling to piece together fragments of her memory on Beechwood island, off of Martha’s Vineyard.
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