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How the 'Ginny & Georgia' Cast and Creators Tackle Mental Health Storylines

"We take a lot of care in how we approach these topics."

By Aramide Tinubu January 16, 2023

🤐 SPOILER ALERT 🤐

There'due south no denying it, peaches, things get existent intense inGinny & Georgia Season ii.

If somebody gave y'all a cursory overview of the family drama — mentioning murderous housewives and teen angst — you might non immediately expectGinny & Georgia to be the kind of show to deal with mental health and trauma.

Only become across Georgia's (Brianne Howey) theatrical flair and tendencies for melodrama, and the series explores some very real and very pertinent topics. Starring Howey equally a single mom in her early 30s and Antonia Gentry as her teenage daughter Ginny, Flavour i sees Ginny deal with the chaos of her mom'due south choices, turning to self-harm to cope with her overwhelming feelings of depression and feet.

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Antonia Gentry as Ginny Miller.

"We take a lot of care in how we approach these topics," serial creator/executive producer Sarah Lampert tells Tudum, adding that a licensed psychologist weighs in on every script and that the nonprofit group Mental Wellness America besides reviews scripts and content involving mental wellness storylines.

"Including mental health portrayals in media, when washed in a responsible way, tin can help fight stigma around diagnoses and testify viewers they aren't alone in dealing with similar emotions or challenges," says Em Skehill, Managing director of Public Awareness and Educational activity at Mental Wellness America. "Netflix and the cast and crew ofGinny & Georgia accept demonstrated that they want to get these characterizations right in a realistic, non-harmful manner for viewers. We hope those watching feel empowered to achieve out for help if needed."

Early in Season 1, theGinny & Georgiateam worked with a psychologist Dr. Taji Huang. "She specializes in self-harm beliefs and gave usa this amazing insight to assist us shape Ginny'south arc, and nosotros also had members of the writer's room who [besides] had this lived experience," showrunner and executive producer Debra J. Fisher tells Tudum.

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Ginny starts seeing a therapist in Flavor two.

In Season 2, Ginny confides in her father, Zion (Nathan Mitchell), that she's been self-harming. He immediately takes activeness and gets her into therapy with Dr. Lily (Zarrin Darnell-Martin), which offers her a rubber space to talk near her tumultuous childhood, her human relationship with Georgia and to piece of work on helpful coping tactics. In showcasing these sensitive issues, Gentry hopes to empower people (peculiarly young people) to achieve out when they're feeling overwhelmed. "I can use this platform to aid betoken that it'south OK to ask for assist, it's OK to lean on people in your life and be vulnerable, and seek out healthy tools to heal yourself," she tells Tudum.

While Ginny makes progress with therapy, Georgia — whose way is less about working through issues than blasting past them — reads Ginny's private therapy journal and is devastated to acquire that her daughter has been self-harming. In a panic, she forces Ginny to reveal the burns on her thighs. "I don't know if there's anything more gut-wrenching," Howey tells Tudum of the moment in the script. "The second I read that scene, I was bawling my eyes out and had a pit in my tum until we shot it."

Antonia Gentry and Felix Mallard Discuss Mental Wellness

The 'Ginny & Georgia' actors talk self-care, feet, and more.

Adamant to take control of the situation, Georgia bulldozes her style into i of Ginny'due south therapy sessions with her typical flair. Despite her skepticism and initial defensiveness, Georgia ends up speaking openly virtually her feelings and learns some hard truths about her lack of boundaries with Ginny. She even apologizes for her past missteps, similar telling Ginny that vulnerability is a weakness. "I admire Ginny's vulnerability this season," says Gentry. "Georgia has these vulnerable moments, but information technology'southward very much hidden behind this large grandiose persona that she uses equally a defense mechanism. Ginny tin't really do that as well equally Georgia can, and so I remember a big part of her character is being vulnerable and beingness honest with herself. That'southward very, very commendable because I know it's deeply uncomfortable to be vulnerable."

Georgia (Brianne Howey) hugs Ginny later discovering she has been cocky-harming.

For Howey, the therapy session was one of the most critical moments between Ginny and Georgia who have had "so much tension" for a season and a one-half by this indicate. Realizing that her daughter's vulnerability is in fact her forcefulness is a groundbreaking moment for Georgia. "That'due south not something Georgia has ever lived her life thinking, believing," says Howey. "And then information technology's sort of ahallelujah, come up-to-Jesus moment. Non merely is Georgia admitting she was wrong — which Georgia never does — merely it's [realizing] Ginny [has] this beautiful ability that I was telling [her] to push downwards but actually, she needs to lean into that. It's her superpower."

That kind of mother-girl quantum was long overdue for Ginny and Georgia. "Role of Ginny's arc and honoring this lived experience in mental health, was getting members of her family [involved]," says Fisher. "Ginny being in therapy was a big part of that, including having Georgia face her fears and uncomfortableness. At the core,Ginny & Georgiais nigh a female parent-daughter relationship and a mother who doesn't really understand her daughter. [The therapy scene] was a unique way we could show that."

Howey agrees. "Georgia's worldview is oddly express for a woman with all these experiences that are contained, unfortunately, in this trauma, this grief," she says. "It'southward difficult for her to open her worldview and see and imagine that Ginny has all of these other thoughts, opinions, feelings, and behavior. Information technology'southward most ironic because that's all Georgia always wanted for Ginny; she wanted her to accept more than options and education, and choices in life. Only then, considering Ginny does have that, she can detach from Georgia and go, 'Whoa, let'due south have a beat out, this is messy.'"

Ellen (Jennifer Robertson) comforts a depressed Marcus (Felix Mallard).

Merely Ginny isn't the simply one grappling with mental health this season. Her boyfriend Marcus Baker (Felix Mallard) finds himself in a deep depression in Flavour 2. "Coming from that identify of non thinking that he deserves love, Marcus doesn't take the tools or the resources or even the belief that people will care plenty for him," Mallard tells Tudum. "Then he just goes into it himself. Hopefully, what these scenes and this storyline can do is encourage people. They're not lone. That's what I really dearest almost the Bakers. You run across this family unit that's super tight-knit, super caring, and they're there for each other when there are struggles."

While Ginny and Marcus try to go on dating every bit they work on confronting their respective traumas, information technology all becomes too much for Marcus. During their devastating breakdown scene, Marcus tells Ginny, "I don't have room for anyone else'southward pain correct at present."

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No room for anyone else's hurting.

"It's heartbreaking to stand up across from someone and tell them you lot call back you shouldn't be with them," says Mallard. "These 2 people love each other so much and because of that dear, he wants to let her go. He doesn't want to put her through the hurting that he's going through." The breakup leaves Ginny and Marcus distraught, but the authenticity of the moment is what makes information technology so impactful and, for Mallard, "hopefully validating for the people who watch it."

"We all brought [something] to the folio [from] breakups that nosotros've all had in the past," Fisher says. "Everyone has that start breakup, and it hurts so bad. We want to actually shine a low-cal on how hard information technology is to be human, which is one of our themes of the flavour. Anybody's going through something, a battle you lot can't see."

WatchGinny & Georgia Season ii now.

Boosted reporting by Tara Bitran.

If you or someone y'all know is suffering from depression, contact the Substance Corruption and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) at 1-800-662-Assistance (4357) or go to world wide web.samhsa.gov

Source: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/ginny-and-georgia-season-2-breakup

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