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It feels like you’re watching a ‘90s movie in parts of it. It also features lot of loveliness, first-date vibes by Max and Liz and some of the most gorgeous stuff we’ve ever shot with the sunset, horseback riding. It just puts Santa Fe, New Mexico, the stunning place we get to shoot, front and center.- Jeanine Mason on Sex & Candy

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Actually you'll get a kick out of this we worked on a show together years before Roswell called Bunheads. So we never... our characters never interacted on the show, but it was just a little, it's a cult show for the people who loved it and the people who were on it, we just adored it, it was such a positive experience, so I obviously knew him from that. So we were searching for Max and doing chemistry read after chemistry read and at that point I had signed on but everybody... I had never done that before where I got to say yes first and then it was like lets find the guy. And it was terrifying because it was't great, it wasn't working, no one felt cosmic, all pun intended. I was like, this is maybe don't do this again, Jeanine, but then when they said that Nathan was coming in I was like oh my god I remember him from Bunheads and our chemistry read we did the scene, and then Julie Plec who is an executive producer on the show said 'Okay, do something cute do something weird' and both of us got nervous and at the same time started to doing the time step, like in unison and it was so ridiculous that it actually ended up being endearing and I was like... most people will do like guns when they feel nervous but I do a time step and so does Nathan and that's when I realized it was fated.

Jeanine Mason on when she knew the chemistry with Nathan Dean Parsons would work, The Daily Pod cast with Lance Bass

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At what point did you think, man this girl’s gonna kill it and I’m one lucky bastard?

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Entertainment Weekly - Echo tidbits

This is the first interview that gives me hope that Carina realizes that Liz was not completely in the right here. She actually uses the word “unethical” to describe what Liz was doing.  

Were you excited at the idea of two Maxes when you first found out, Jeanine?

JEANINE MASON: Yeah, our minds were blown. What I love about the character of Max is he's all things good, decent and righteous and now to turn that on its head and make him all the opposite things... I'm excited for Nathan to have that as an acting exercise and I'm so excited to support him through season 3. Also, for fans, it's going to be really jarring and disorienting, and anything that requires us to watch more attentively and sit on the edge of our seats, and really question the things we know to be true, I think is so smart and exciting and engaging. I'm also interested to see how and when Liz will find out. She's also a prime person to be taken advantage of and duped by it.

"Howdy, partner" was such a great last line for the season. Was that yours, Carina?

MACKENZIE: That was me. I felt like it was the correct mix of amusing and menacing and Mr. Jones is going to be really fun to write because that's sort of where he lives: between amusing and menacing. Nathan loves that beard. He walks differently when he had it. His whole vibe changes. He becomes this like silver, bartender guy, who I don't know.

We saw Liz decided to move to California at the end and Max chose not to follow. Why is their relationship failing right now?

MACKENZIE: Max has had secrets his entire life. He's a very, very, very good liar because his entire life he's had to lie to everyone who loves him and he hasn't yet learned how to be a true partner to Liz. He makes a lot of promises and doesn't follow through. That said, Liz's ambition is overwhelming to her and what she's doing with the alien DNA is unethical. It's not right. In her mind, it's "I'm taking a risk, but I could possibly save so many people." In his mind, the risk is too great. You don't just get to mess with somebody else, even if she's saying it's not hurting anyone. There's this moment in the fight where she says, "I'm not hurting anyone," and he just looks at her with this searing look and it's like, no, she is. They're hurting each other. I think that politically right now, they are on opposite sides of a major issue that affects both of them. We wanted to tell a story in which the conflict in their relationship just comes from the two of them. It's not about Diego. It's not about California. It's about Liz and Max and they're not able to align right now. They love each other so much, but sometimes that's just not enough.

Jeanine, did you feel like Liz was doing the right thing by leaving for now?

MASON: I felt certain that this was what was right for Liz. I was just grateful to our writers that they wrote her in a way that feels, to me, real and mature and actually indicative of a 29-year-old woman who says, right now, this is too much and I need my space. I need to reclaim my agency and I need to go. There's a sense with them and their epic love, the energy of Max and Liz, that probably plays into her being okay with saying, right now is not the right time. I can believe that maybe it will be later because we found each other after ten years before.

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Roswell New Mexico NYCC Panel - Jeanine Mason on Liz bringing Max back to life (October 6, 2019)

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Nathan talking about meeting Jeanine at their chemistry test (via TVGuide’s instagram)

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Max and Liz’s first-time comes in 4th on Popsugar’s Sexiest Movie and TV Scenes of 2019

(reposting because Max and Liz are so dang hot that Tumblr classified the first post as adult, even after appeal) 

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Echo + Lovely Longing Looks

TVGuide: Can you real quick walk me through how you achieve those lovely, longing looks?

Nathan Parsons: Well, I mean just look at her. It’s the easiest thing to do in the world with her.

Jeanine Mason: Honestly, I feel like he does all the work. I just sort of stand there and then he’s like, and I’m like, “OK, great! This is working.”