Sonia Mena and Alicia Crowder’s characters, Pippa and Diana, have already brought one of the biggest shockers of the season. And it’s only four episodes in. After viewers saw the flash-forward at the end of the season two premiere of the -created series — which teased a romantic relationship between the pair in the 2015 timeline — many have likely been wondering how the two former classmates got there.
Especially since they’re not that close in college, and Diana is still very wrapped up with Stephen (Jackson White) and his drama with Lucy ( ) in 2008. But now, after the fourth episode, viewers might start to see a shift in the dynamic after Diana finds the photos of Macy on Stephen’s computer, which only confirms what Lucy told her regarding his involvement in Macy’s deadly crash in season one. And though Diana deleted them, Crowder believes “she’s genuinely scared, she’s scared of him.
” There’s also an unspoken connection already between Pippa and Diana in the earlier timeline, as the latter “stumbled upon this horrible situation” Pippa was in after being sexually assaulted by Chris [Jacob Rodriguez] earlier in the season and helping her. “I think there is also this very deep instinct where she really cares about this girl, and she doesn’t quite understand why or how that came about,” Crowder says. Below, Mena and Crowder chat with about navigating the heavy subject of sexual assault, why Diana continues to defend Stephen, and the Diana and.