Who Is Sadie Stanley? 5 Things to Know About Megan in Season 2 of Freeform’s ‘Cruel Summer’

usmagazine.com:

A scene-stealing performance. Sadie Stanley is leaving a lasting impression as one of the leads of Freeform’s Cruel Summer following a series shake-up.The show, which debuted in April 2021, was a network hit after it introduced a story told across three timelines.

Season 1 followed Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt), who was kidnapped and later rescued, and Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia), who was accused of knowing the whereabouts of the missing girl.After an explosive finale, Cruel Summer was renewed for a second season.

Freeform announced in April 2022, however, that the show would become an anthology series with a new cast and showrunner.Stanley, for her part, joined the season 2 cast alongside fellow leads Lexi Underwood and Griffin Gluck.

The trio help set the scene of a friendship gone awry in a small town during the early 2000s. Ahead of the show’s return, Stanley opened up about how Cruel Summer has stuck to the narrative formula that originally brought the series success.“They [the three timelines] worked so well, that format worked so well in the first season and it just seemed like a lot of fun as an actor to get to play three different timelines and essentially almost three different characters because our characters do change so much in each timeline,” Stanley told Nerds of Color in June 2023. “So that was really intriguing to me and I resonated with Megan a lot.