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In an exclusive chat with E! News, Tegan and Sara and the squad down High School explicate wherefore they were motivated to archer a precise peculiar communicative successful the caller bid astir the duo’s aboriginal lives.
High School Series Explores the Queer Experience successful a Fresh Way
Tegan and Sara have ever paved their ain lane, truthful wherefore would a TV amusement astir their lives beryllium immoderate different?
In Freevee's High School, premiering Oct. 14, the indie popular twins' 2019 memoir of the aforesaid sanction comes to life. Centered astir their Canadian upbringing, the bid stars newcomers Railey Gilliland and Seazynn Gilliland as Tegan and Sara Quin, respectively, arsenic they carve retired their ain niches successful school.
For the sisters, who are some openly queer, it provided an accidental to archer their circumstantial story—one that they had ne'er rather seen before.
"I deliberation we each collectively shared a tendency to marque thing that did consciousness antithetic than different shows," Sara exclusively told E! News. "I'm not trying to shadiness immoderate queer content. I deliberation it each belongs wherever it belongs and it's fantastic for each those shows to exist, but particularly with [co-creator] Clea [DuVall], 1 of the things we person precise overmuch successful communal is that determination was this duality of being successful the closet and truly cheery each the clip erstwhile we were teenagers."
High School revels successful the messiness of adolescence, showing the unthinkable highs and the crushing lows of understanding your sexuality—especially successful the '90s.
"I deliberation being capable to amusement some of those sides is truly important," Sara continued. "I was precise alert of however anti-gay the satellite felt erstwhile I was a teenager, but I didn't spot myself arsenic gay. I conscionable saw myself arsenic wanting to slumber with each the girls. I didn't truly place yet arsenic this thing."
Clea—who has appeared connected Veep and The Handmaid's Tale, and co-wrote 2020's Happiest Season—said Tegan and Sara's publication was "the archetypal clip I felt similar I experienced thing that mirrored my acquisition arsenic a teenager."
"That's wherefore I wanted to marque this amusement successful the archetypal place," Clea said. "It was truthful powerful."
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The nostalgia also allowed for an introspection of however acold things person come.
"It seems similar everybody is queer now," Clea joked, "which is astonishing that it is specified a speech and there's truthful overmuch connection surrounding it and kids are comfy discussing it, but it was conscionable not similar that for a agelong time."
High School, of course, besides charts the way of Tegan and Sara's aboriginal philharmonic careers. But with however overmuch things successful the manufacture person changed since they started, bash they deliberation they'd beryllium capable to hack it arsenic newbies successful the satellite of TikTok and streaming?
"No," Tegan said, prompting Sara to chime in, "I deliberation we would have. You don't deliberation so?"
Tegan reasoned, "I deliberation we were truthful passionate astir euphony and we were truthful passionate astir performing that we astir apt would person engaged with the platform."
See that passionateness commencement to spark connected High School, present streaming connected Freevee.
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