We chat with HighSchool showrunners cleaduvall and Laura Kittrell about bringing Tegan and Sara's memoir to the screen through AmazonFreevee, the show's potential future, and more:
Clea DuVall is back on television with a new kind of project in High School. The coming-of-age drama series acts as an adaptation of the memoir of the same name penned by Tegan and Sara, the beloved Canadian indie pop duo, as it explores their teenage years, their relationship with their mom, and embracing their queer identities.
Laura Kittrell: Part of it was I've never read a book that so accurately describes what my high school experience was, in terms of my friend group and my queerness, and I think a little bit my relationship to my parents. When I came on board, Clea had already written the first two scripts, and those even enhanced all of the things that I was feeling from the book. It felt like just exactly the thing that I had been looking to work on, maybe my entire life.
Clea DuVall: We would take events from the book, and then build stories around them. There's a lot from the book in the show, but Laura and I couldn't help but project our teenage years onto the show. So, I feel like it's a really healthy mixture of both. What was it like finding the cast for the show? Because younger performers, sometimes they're not quite ready to step into the spotlight, especially with a show like this.
Clea DuVall: It was really Laura and I and our music supervisor and our editor who brought the music. Even though it's a show in the ‘90s, and we're all very familiar with the ‘90s bands, we never wanted to use the most popular song from a band, unless it was connected to the story or something directly from the book, like a lot of the Smashing Pumpkins stuff was from the book.
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