What’s better than two teenage girls looking for payback?
What inspired the frat-boy, image-obsessed king of high school?
These were all questions we were dying to get the answers to, and Abrams did not hold back.
It was very Hitchcock in tone.
I was reading it and thought it would be more of a straightforward script.
Then I got to those parts, and I was really thrown and didn’t expect them at all.
This character is [also] really fun.
I want to get into your character specifically as well.
As you said, he’s peacocking; he’s got this sordid, frat-boy, revenge-jot down energy.
How did you get into character?
Where did you source inspiration from?
That was definitely inspiring to …
I’d love to know in what ways that challenged you or challenged your preconception of the popular archetype.
It was freeing in that way.
It taught me something about attraction or what attraction could be.
I’ve got to ask about the cast because you join some amazing cast members.
Sophie Turner, of course.
What did a day on set look like?
Take me back to those production days.
You are working with a lot of great people, people that have a lot of inspiration.
Maya’s very smart.
She has a lot of great ideas.
The days on set were fun and creative.
They’re so different.
Yeah, super different.
I feel like Ethan is a lot more grounded.
Ethan is a quiet guy, reserved guy.
That was what was so beautiful about the play too all of that could be let go.
I feel like there is quietness and a soulfulness, but I think there is a bit of reservedness.
And then Max they’re different.
Max has a lot more ego.
Max wants people to like him a lot more.
They also probably have really different families.
I think Max doesn’t have parents that are around very much.
I think they’re off working or vacationing don’t really give him a lot of love.
How do you navigate such different projects?
That’s such a different mindset going into these characters.
Sometimes it’s funky.
It can be funky sometimes.
You’re like, “Oh, how was that?”
Because especially if it’s so quick, you don’t get so much time to [adjust].
With that in mind, what are you hoping viewers are going to take away from the film?
Whatever they feel each person is their own.
Maybe you won’t take away anything.
Maybe you’ll take away a bunch, or maybe you’ll have a good time for two hours.
What would you say was the biggest lesson that you took from this film?
How will it impact projects coming up for you on the horizon?
It’s such a mixture but also not really, because I’m doing this.
It’s a little bit of a battle that goes on where it goes back and forth.
It’s a moment and it’s living.
There’s no right or wrong way to do anything.
it’s possible for you to approach every project completely differently.
I love doing that.
We have a good chemistry and a really good time.
Yeah, for sure.
From that moment on, we see this descent into chaos that he’s really at the center of.
He’s hiding it so much from himself, his own vulnerability.
“Do Revenge” drops on Netflix on September 16 at 12:00 a.m. PDT.
This interview has been edited for clarity.
