Decider posted an interview with Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff on their website today.
How Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff’s IRL Friendship Inspired the Core Relationship of ‘I Am Not Okay With This’
When you’re talking about Netflix’s new series I Am Not Okay With This, IT is bound to come up.
That’s because IT and IT: Chapter Two stars Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff are reunited in I Am Not Okay With This as awkward friends Sydney Novak and Stanley Barber. Syd is a grieving teenager struggling with her ambivalent feelings towards her own innate superpowers. Stanley, on the other hand, is an all-too normal boy who is crazy cool because he’s not cool. Together, the two make a perfect odd couple and their chemistry zings through the series’ first season.
During a visit to the show’s Pittsburgh-based set, Decider got to chat with the cast and creative team behind I Am Not Okay With This. According to Lillas, Sydney has a lot in common with the Molly Ringwald characters of the Brat Pack era, while Oleff shared that Stanley is loosely based on Pretty in Pink‘s Duckie. As it turns out, Lillis and Wyatt were cast not because of their resemblance to John Hughes’s characters or their work in IT, but thanks to their real life friendship.
Read the rest of the interview on Decider.com!
And on Thursday 27 February Sophia and Wyatt will be interviewed at Build Studio between 1:00PM and 1:30PM. So if you’re from New York and are free that day, you can buy tickets HERE and maybe see both Sophia and Wyatt there!
UPDATE: I also added a magazine scan from Sophia in Harper’s Bazaar Australia (March 2020) to the gallery. Click on the photo to see it full size:
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