Exclusive: Sadie Stanley, Lexi Underwood, & Griffin Gluck talk Cruel Summer Season 2
Premiering on Freeform Monday, June 5, at 9:00 p.m. EDT with a special two-episode premiere before moving to its regular 10 p.m. timeslot is the highly anticipated season two of smash-hit anthology series “Cruel Summer.”
The series stars Sadie Stanley, Lexi Underwood, Griffin Gluck, KaDee Strickland, Lisa Yamada and Sean Blakemore. Paul Adelstein and Braeden De La Garza will recur. “Cruel Summer” comes from studio eOne and was created by Bert V. Royal. Elle Triedman serves as show runner.
Set in an idyllic waterfront town in the Pacific Northwest, the next chapter of “Cruel Summer” follows the rise and fall of an intense teenage friendship. Approaching the story from three different timelines surrounding Y2K, the season twists and turns as it tracks the early friendship between Megan, Isabella and Megan’s best friend Luke, the love triangle that blossomed, and the mystery that would impact all of their lives going forward.
Stanley plays Megan Landry, a computer coder and honor student who starts focusing more on living in the moment after meeting Isabella, played by Underwood. Isabella is the daughter of foreign diplomats who is spending a year with the Landry family. She quickly shakes up life in this small town, but her charm can't hide the truth about her past or the real reason she came to live with the Landrys forever. Meanwhile, Gluck plays Luke Chambers, who finds himself at a crossroads as he tries to establish his own place in the world, separate from the expectations of his powerful father.
Strickland plays Debbie, Megan's hardworking single mom; Yamada stars as Parker, a well-known musician; Blakemore plays the town's by-the-books Sheriff Myer, while Adelstein recurs as Steve, Luke's high-profile dad.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Stanley, Underwood and Gluck on their roles in Season 2.
