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\nAlex Walter has a new love interest in season 2 of\u00a0My Life with the Walter Boys, and star Ashby Gentry has some thoughts about itGentry tells PEOPLE the age gap between his 16-year-old character and his new trainer, 18-year-old Blake, is admittedly a bit of a “question mark” as he opens up about the new romanceThe actor, 26, also spills on why things between Alex and Jackie (Nikki Rodriguez) are “different” this time around<\/p>\n
Warning: This post contains spoilers for season 2 of My Life with the Walter Boys.\n<\/p>\n
Alex has his eye on more than just Jackie in My Life with the Walter Boys<\/a> season 2, but what does Ashby Gentry<\/a> think about that?\n<\/p>\n The 26-year-old actor plays the younger of the two Walter brothers, both of whom caught Jackie’s (Nikki Rodriguez<\/a>) eye in season 1, and after she fled to New York City for the summer following a clandestine kiss with Cole (Noah LaLonde<\/a>), things between her and Alex are on the rocks.\n<\/p>\n Alex also has a newfound hobby this season: saddle bronc riding.\n<\/p>\n The dangerous sport not only introduces him to a whole new rancher world, it also brings him closer to Blake, the pretty 18-year-old his parents hired to train him. <\/p>\n She also, of course, acts as the perfect person to rile Jackie up, amid an onslaught of new female interest in Alex thanks to his summer glow-up.\n<\/p>\n “Natalie is great,” Gentry tells PEOPLE of the actress who plays his trainer-slash-love interest in season 2, Natalie Sharp. “Natalie, the girl who plays Blake, is so awesome. She’s such a great actress. She’s so beautiful. She’s so much fun to work with.”<\/p>\n Natalie Sharp as Blake, Ashby Gentry as Alex in ‘My Life with the Walter Boys’ season 2.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Netflix\u00a0<\/p>\n “I also like Alex-Blake ’cause she’s taller than me, and I’m like, let’s give Alex a tall girlfriend!” he quips of their height difference. “Alex does not discriminate. Alex loves all different races, taller than him \u2014 Alex does not care. I was very pro him getting a tall girlfriend.”\n<\/p>\n “I thought that was cool, because that’s not a thing you see,” Gentry continues, before he jokes that Alex is “on his Tom Holland<\/a> a little bit” in season 2, referring to the height difference between the Spider-Man star and his fianc\u00e9e, Zendaya<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n Still, he’ll admit that he did think twice about the age gap between Alex and his trainer. <\/p>\n “That’s definitely a question mark,” the actor says of the dynamic between his 16-year-old character and the 18-year-old trainer.<\/p>\n Natalie Sharp as Blake in ‘My Life with the Walter Boys’ season 2.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Netflix\u00a0<\/p>\n “Yeah, the age thing was \u2014 I was like, ‘Hmm, I don’t know how this is going to go over,'” he admits.\n<\/p>\n He’s a bit more defensive, though, when it comes to how anti-Jackie Blake seems to be. “Is she wrong, though?” he asks, referring to Blake’s insistence that Jackie is a distraction for Alex, who is risking his life when he’s riding. “I don’t know.”\n<\/p>\n Blake aside, what there’s no denying is how much Alex cares about Jackie. <\/p>\n “I think you can really see how much he really loves her in the second season, which I think is different than in the first,” Gentry says.\n<\/p>\n Whereas there was a “question of, is he doing this just to compete with his brother? Or is he actually into her?” in season 1, he says that concern is “answered in season 2 \u2014 I hope.”<\/p>\n “I think he genuinely loves her and he goes after her, and because there’s that void there [from losing her family], I don’t think she uses her discretion to the fullest extent, because as we said, she’s grieving.”\n<\/p>\n He continues of Alex this season, “I think he makes [Jackie] feel like she’s going to be taken care of, and when you lose everybody that’s close to you, that feeling is so attractive. So it totally makes sense.”\n<\/p>\n