Maya ishii peters9/11/2023 ![]() ![]() SIMON: I have to ask, Maya Erskine - your mother plays your mother. Some of that came through as the guys not being kind to us and continuing to put them on a pedestal. And we really wanted to reflect in this season. And, you know, we did want to address though a theme in this season that we were calling anti-mom, pro-dad, which was this kind of thing that you learn to not like the girls and not like yourself and not like your mom. We can throw, you know, everyone can throw each other under the bus because you're just at a point of insecurity where it's survive or be killed.ĮRSKINE: It's really survival of the fittest. And even though, we can - Maya and Anna can be victims in the show, the villain can be within all of us. I mean, I think we all have the booger-smearing part of us - no matter, you know, the girls and the guys. SIMON: I have to ask in your series, which, as you know I enjoyed a lot, adolescent boys are portrayed as a bunch of booger-smearing jerks. And I think we wish, as adults, sometimes you could express your love for your friends that way. And you can physically smash your faces together without anyone (laughter) blinking twice at that age. There's no self-consciousness in how you express your love for your friend at that age. And there's this sort of circle of identity that you're forming together.ĮRSKINE: But it's that age where you get to show sort of unabashed love. KONKLE: You know, in your lowest moment at that age, if you're lucky enough to have that best friend, you have this mere reflection that you get to look out as even better than you. KONKLE: I think it's similar to the friendship that me and Maya really have as 33-year-old women, which is a little bit codependent, I like to think, in a beautiful way rather than unhealthy. What do these two young women find in each other? Anna Konkle. ![]() Anna Kone, Maya's best friend - her parents are getting divorced. SIMON: To set up the characters a bit, Maya, played by Maya, is a shy, sensitive seventh grader - Japanese American family - being raised by her mother. But.ĮRSKINE: We just spent a lot of days together. And you were best friends with one of the 14-year-olds, so I had to get over that. KONKLE: I think, the first season, they truly didn't know if we were children or adults for the beginning of it (laughter). ![]() SIMON: What's it like to play 13-year-olds who work with other 13-year-olds? Thanks very much for being with us, both of you. Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine, who are also part of the writing and production team, join us from Los Angeles. SIMON: "PEN15" - write out the title - you'll get it - has begun its second season on Hulu. But if it doesn't keep happening because you keep interrupting. Congratulations.ĮRSKINE: (As Maya Ishii-Peters) No. MAYA ERSKINE: (As Maya Ishii-Peters) Literally, I was this close to getting my first kiss with Brandt.ĪNNA KONKLE: (As Anna Kone) How was I supposed to know that? I didn't know that? That's amazing, though. ![]() Times of crushes, dances, exploratory kisses and heartbreaks, pimples, braces, red faces and hormones, moaning hormones. Anna Konkle and Maya Esrkine play versions of themselves as 13-year-old besties in the seventh grade 20 years ago. And maybe that means it's real life, middle school life. I can't tell if "PEN15" is a comedy or a drama. ![]()
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