Charlie Hall is aware of he is not a fan favourite amongst “The Sex Lives of College Girls” followers — and he is completely fantastic with that. “I form of love that he is unlikeable,” the 25-year-old tells POPSUGAR of his character Andrew, aka Whitney’s (Alyah Chanelle Scott) biochem lab companion and love curiosity in season two.
Hall joined the HBO Max hit collection, which wrapped up its second season on Dec. 15, just some years after graduating from Northwestern University and pursuing an appearing profession. Like his costar Mitchell Slaggert, the actor — whose mother and father are “Seinfeld” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus and “Saturday Night Live” alum Brad Hall — auditioned for a special position than the one he landed, however he admits he beloved the problem of enjoying his detested character.
“It’s a enjoyable little problem to play somebody that you simply’re not rooting for in a method that’s entertaining and likewise in a method that is humorous.”
Season two of “The Sex Lives of College Girls” delivered one more season filled with limitless laughs, drama, and misadventures with our favourite foursome — Whitney, Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet), Bela (Amrit Kaur), and Leighton (Reneé Rapp) — however the present threw viewers a curveball after they added Hall’s Andrew onto Whitney’s roster. Following her breakup with Canaan (Christopher Meyer), the soccer-star-turned-biochem main finds herself in a friend-with-benefits entanglement with Andrew — one thing viewers weren’t too eager on at first. But Hall says he welcomes the criticism of his character and relationship with Scott’s Whitney as a result of he is conscious Andrew is “nearly totally unlikeable.”
“He’s fairly douchey, he is caught up, he is tremendous aggressive, clearly there are some redeeming moments for him, however on the entire, you are not precisely rooting for him, which is enjoyable,” he shares. “It’s a enjoyable little problem to play somebody that you simply’re not rooting for in a method that’s entertaining and likewise in a method that is humorous. [It] was difficult in an thrilling method. And then, after all, the writers of the present made it tremendous straightforward for me as a result of all the things they write may be very humorous. So all I needed to do was not f*ck it up.”
Most of the hate towards Andrew stems from his situationship with Whitney and the truth that the 2 began out as frenemies. “It’s clearly a very fascinating one as a result of it is atypical of how most relationships are in that it is form of a love-hate type of factor,” Hall explains of Andrew and Whitney’s “uncooked attraction.” “But I feel a whole lot of their attraction is [because] they’re each tremendous aggressive . . . after they turn into romantic is after they even have a whole lot of enjoyable collectively, [and] after they’re type of nearly taking jabs at one another or being aggressive.”
“I feel it would be enjoyable to type of see him nearly apologize for being such a bit of sh*t on a regular basis and possibly try to alter.”
Of course, Andrew and Whitney’s love-hate relationship acquired messy as soon as they began sleeping collectively, and by the top of season two, it was clear their romance was doomed to fail. “I feel there will certainly be some aid, for positive,” Hall says of the pair’s breakup within the season two finale. “I hope that there is a small subset of individuals which can be like, ‘Oh no, I used to be rooting for them.’ But I feel, for probably the most half . . . particularly within the again half of the season, that Whitney is regretful about the entire scenario. It has form of gone a bit of too far and Andrew clearly is starting to turn into a bit of hooked up. So yeah, I feel there is a massive aid, not just for the viewers but additionally for Whitney.”
Though it is clearly the top of the highway for Whitney and Andrew, Hall hopes he’ll be capable of reprise his position in “The Sex Lives of College Girls” season three — which HBO Max only in the near past greenlit. “Oh yeah, I positively would like to return,” Hall says. “I’ll stroll within the background of a scene if I’ve to. The present is a lot enjoyable. And there’s hope for [Andrew] as a result of it is very faculty in that you would be able to’t actually keep away from your exes on a regular basis since you’re at school collectively. I do assume there’s form of comedy available there for positive.”
As far as what he needs to see of Andrew, Hall simply hopes “he will get his f*cking sh*t collectively and simply form of possibly loosens up a bit of bit.” “He’s so intense,” the actor provides. “So I feel it would be enjoyable to type of see him nearly apologize for being such a bit of sh*t on a regular basis and possibly try to alter. Although, he strikes me because the form of man that possibly has hassle altering.”
For viewers who nonetheless aren’t massive followers of Andrew, Hall has one final message for you: “To everyone, sorry Andrew’s such a dick. I apologize.”
Season two of “The Sex Lives of College Girls” is now streaming on HBO Max.
