Or can we atone for it? All those questions will hopefully be evoked and some answered,” says Roberts. We cannot necessarily be accountable for our worse thing that we did in college. They’ve all done something that’s selfish. She notes that each one of the characters stretch the truth, not just Stephen. I think Jackson did a really amazing job of giving us this mysterious, obviously toxic person, but then you see him with his sister and it’s like, ‘Oh, now I like him.'” “You need to love something about him or at least, understand why he’s doing what he’s doing - whether you agree or not, have some understanding. It’s kind of like Penn Badgley on ‘You,’” she says of the Netflix drama. Roberts, who was excited to step into the producer role on the drama instead of the star, also weighed in on trying to find the balance. I like that this show explores that." /TVjOl3s1nM- Variety September 8, 2022 People do bad thing but also can do something good. People do things and don't understand why they're doing them. "People are not one way," Emma Roberts says of #TellMeLies. There were some scenes where we went way too far, and we were like, we’ve gotta bring it back.” “Our Stephen is really terrified of a lot of things and when you are terrified, you treat everyone like an enemy.
“I think the Stephen that we created is coming from such a place of fear,” says Oppenheimer. While in the book, she says, Stephen is very confident, that’s not the case on the show.
“In real life, people do some really bad things, and the key was to try to understand why he does the things that he does and at any point to understand his motivation.” I think it was just about being honest and being realistic and not making anything too heightened or too ridiculous,” she continues.
“We don’t want to glamorize an abusive character, because he is abusive at times. In fact, that line Stephen walked was “probably the thing we talked about most in the writers room,” she says.
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