What attracted you to “Genera+ion?”[The fact] that it was created by this teenager and her dad. Zelda Barnz [the teenager] is just an incredibly smart, intuitive, conscious human being.
And I just loved the scripts and I loved what she and [co-creator Daniel Barnz] had created together as a family. It was the first time I was reading something about teenagers that really felt authentic and real and honest.
Usually these things are written by adults sort of trying, and failing, to make their words sound like a teenager’s words, but this felt different and new to me. Tell me about your character, Megan. She’s nothing like me at all — she’s not a terribly articulate person — she doesn’t have a facility with words — so I really do have to.
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