‘Ginny & Georgia’ Stars Sara Waisglass and Felix Mallard Dissect Major Moments For The Baker Twins In Season 3

SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for the entirety of Ginny & Georgia Season 3.

Marcus (Felix Mallard) and Maxine (Sara Waisglass) Baker have formed a strong foundation for Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia as two key characters in the life of Ginny (Antonia Gentry).

While Max was Ginny’s first close friend in Wellsbury, Massachusetts, Marcus is her first true love, but their relationship has its ups and downs as all three of them are sucked into the orbit of Ginny’s mother Georgia (Brianne Howey) who is on trial for murder this season.

Two sides of the same coin, Max is a social butterfly who talks a mile a minute, but she starts to really feel the pressure of having it all together this season as her brother’s depression takes a super strong hold of him, as viewers witness starting at the end of Season 2. Thus, the dynamic for the twins, much like Ginny & Georgia’s relationship, is one that constantly shifts in new ways.

“We’ve seen their sibling rivalry. We’ve seen them be sweet with each other, but we’ve never seen them at odds about a big issue,” Waisglass told Deadline ahead of Season 3’s premiere.

Waisglass and Mallard unpack some major moments — including an episode told from Max’s perspective as well as a scene in which Marcus proves super supportive to Ginny — in the below interview.

DEADLINE: Sara, the episode that Max gets to narrate, is stellar, especially when she’s dealing with all that stuff, seeing Georgia take the bike and then in the musical. When you found out you would be doing that, and what the conversations were like going into that narration?

WAISGLASS: I had had our writers hint to me that there was a Max-centric episode in the future, and I was curious what that would look like because I was a huge fan of the Marcus episode in Season 2. and it did not disappoint, honestly, getting to look inside Max’s brain.

I mean, I’ve always lived there. I’ve always had all of that on the mind, and obviously I’m a fast speaker, and so is Max, and there’s a million things happening at the same time, but that’s just who she is. And so to get to share that with everyone and kind of open it up in that way was really special.

Also I love musicals, so getting to do another one of those was hilarious and amazing and also really special, because I do think that it shows a really wonderful side of Max. Because those musicals are usually where she shines, and it’s when she gets the most attention, and she thrives on that, and instead of basking in the glory of her performance, she uses that time to tell her parents that her brother’s struggling. I think that is such a selfless move on her part. I’m so proud of her for that. And yeah, I just, I think that episode was marvelous, if I do say so myself.

DL: Felix, Marcus’s depression and addiction get worse this season. Where do you go when you have to film those scenes? How do you get into that?

MALLARD: I think there’s different techniques for different people. I’m certainly a big subscriber [to] music. [It’s] such a huge part in trying to develop, “How do you get into an emotional space?” But a lot of it, especially with Marcus, he’s someone who is desperate to be seen and understood and loved, and has no vocabulary on how to deal with that. So it’s examining moments in my life where I’ve felt angry or lonely or misunderstood or depressed, and there’s a lot to draw from.

There’s a catharsis in being able to bring yourself to it, and then live in the circumstance, wind it all up, put as many details and ingredients as you want into that scene, and then when it comes to action, just let it all go and see what comes out, and see if you can surprise yourself. There’s a lot of anger in in Marcus this season, and I think it’s that not being able to be understood.

There’s an old, I think it’s a Buddhist phrase about like, holding on to anger, is like holding on to hot coal, and it, just, all it does is hurt yourself. And not only does it do that,it hurts everyone around him. And to be able to sit and meditate on that — I’ve been saying meditate a lot today. It’s my favorite word.

WAISGLASS: It’s the word of the day.

MALLARD: I think it’s grounds for a really, hopefully transcendent experience, like when we were stepping into those scenes, it was just —  to be able to provide a space to go as deep and dark and angry and wild as possible was a real joy.

DEADLINE: What makes him still able to be there for Ginny with her abortion, and what makes him that safe space versus her friends?

MALLARD: I think Ginny has always been his North Star. Ginny’s always been the place where he feels most himself and most loved, and so it’s the antidote to how he’s feeling, but you know, as a snake eating its own tail, he doesn’t feel like he has enough self-love, or that Ginny, you know, deserves to be around someone like him. So it’s this push and pull of like I need to be with this person. I want to show up for her, and I can’t. And how that all plays out.

DEADLINE: How do your relationships with each other evolve throughout this season and how does that play into Season 4?

WAISGLASS: I think Max is one of the only people who sees Marcus going deeper into a hole, and she’s really trying to be there for him, and he is shutting her out. And I don’t think that’s something that happens often with them. I think they’re always each other’s number one. So I think that’s an interesting place to take it. And definitely there was a scene in 9 I think, where we got to yell at each other a bit, and I think that that was really scary, because it was definitely a new energy for us to explore. And I remember even in the scene being like, I’m scared of you [Felix].

MALLARD: [Laughs].

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