Season two picks up immediately in the bus headed toward Heathrow Airport, which Tom boarded in an attempt to stop Jessie from returning home to New Zealand.
If"Starstruck" were like most rom-coms, there would have been no need for a second season. After six episodes of stops and starts, leads Jessie and Tom finally seem to get their happily-ever-after in the season one finale, which dropped in 2021.
"The second series explores what happens after you make that massive declaration romantic declaration — and it’s kind of awkward some of the time. Jessie didn't think it through, and you'll see the fallout from that," Matafeo tells TODAY. Originally, season two of"Starstruck" was going to skip over this phase, jumping to Tom and Jessie six months down the line. But Matafeo changed the timeline so the show wouldn't miss the"most interesting part" of a relationship:"Those awkward early months when you've taken such a risk to be together.
"Season one was a lot of the external obstacles of these two characters being together — timing, miscommunications, ex-boyfriends. Everything was happening to them. The second series is them happening to each other, in terms of all the insecurities they bring to a new relationship. The obstacles are internal. Jessie has to sort herself out to properly be in a relationship," she says.
However, Matafeo stresses that"Starstruck" was cast with the intention of finding"the best people for the role." She says,"When you're not white, sometimes you second-guess yourself. You go, 'Why am I being cast in this role?' The fact that we went for whatever's best means a lot." Speaking of the '90s: For all its refreshing modernizations, “Starstruck” is very much in conversation with the classic rom-com tradition. Like the Julia Roberts vehicle “Notting Hill,” the show features a celebrity and civilian pairing dodging paparazzi to find depth.
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