When you're a budding actress, it's not uncommon to put higher education on hold (perhaps indefinitely), as Grace Van Patten — who plays "ice queen" Lucy with heart and intensity — never attended college herself.
“I’m kind of happy I didn’t go, if it was going to be anything like that,” she recently told W magazine with a giggle. Grace detailed that filming at Agnes Scott College gave her a taste of the college experience (campus coffee and all), just “without the homework.”
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Filming the series even made her realize just how "anxiety-inducing" the college party scene could be. A sea of wild strangers and lukewarm beer with, well, whatever that is floating in it just isn't everyone's cup of tea.
“It definitely made me think about who I would be in that situation,” she said of playing college student Lucy. “What faces I would try on if I got the opportunity to reinvent myself with all of these new people who didn’t know my history.”
In the interview, she went on to discuss the message behind the series. “A huge message of the show is, if everyone just communicated and were honest with themselves and their feelings, none of this would have happened. But that’s not a common mindset. At 18 years old, you don’t even know who you are yet.”
With a genuine college backdrop and a college-aged mindset at the forefront, Tell Me Lies offers a wild emotional ride that will have you feeling lucky you made it past your college years.
New episodes of Tell Me Lies premiere on Fridays on Hulu.
