Netflix’s Wayward starring Toni Collette may have been envisioned as a limited miniseries, but one of the stars of the show is opening up about the chance for a second season. Alyvia Alyn Lind shared her thoughts on the show’s finale — and its future.
Speaking with The Direct, Lind revealed she’s more than willing to return for a second season of Wayward. “If there’s anything in the future I want to be involved in [it],” she said, adding: “There are so many different possibilities for [her character] Leila at this point.” Wayward was released on Netflix on Sept. 25 and is set in a fictional town in Vermont, telling the story of two teenagers and a local police officer as they uncover the town’s darkest secrets, realizing nothing is as it seems.
Lind’s character of Leila is a troubled teenager who recently lost her sister and is admitted to Tall Pines Academy after breaking in to rescue her best friend, Abbie (Sydney Topliffe). The series also stars Mae Martin (who also created it), as well as Toni Collette, Sarah Gadon and John Daniel.
Ultimately, Lind admitted that the potential for Wayward Season 2 lies in the hands of its creator. “I mean, that’s up to Mae, and I think that whatever Mae, if Mae wants, if Mae is writing it, or there’s a Season 2, I think that Mae would do an amazing job at continuing the stories, but something cool, something powerful, just getting to play the character again at all would be awesome,” she said.
When it came down to news of a new season, Lind revealed that there hadn’t been discussions with her at this time. “I have, again, not heard anything. They don’t tell me anything.” Nonetheless, she has plenty of ideas about where Leila could go next after the Season One finale.
“I’d love to see the creepy outcome of her after she leaps, because I have no idea at this point what that would look like,” Lind teased. “If it would turn her into, like a weird Stacey, kind of like, a comatose state, or if it would just be more like a Laura, where she still feels normal and still feels very sweet and calming, but has just a weird, off aura energy.”
Wayward Star Discusses Potential Romance in New Netflix Miniseries
Sophie Topliffe, Patrick J. Adams and Alyvia Alyn Lind on the set of Netflix’s Wayward.Netflix
With much of Wayward’s mystery/thriller story revolving around Lind’s character of Leila and her best friend Abbie, some viewers have begun to wonder if there might be some sort of romantic connection between the two. Lind discussed this possibility, but ultimately said she doesn’t believe it to be true. “I mean, I think that there’s so much in the show that’s up for interpretation. But I think that they’re just best friends,” she said.
Lind added that she and Abbie’s actor, Sydney Topliffe, were close friends off set, and that transferred onto the screen. “[I]f people want to think that there’s something there, then sure, then they can go ahead,” Lind said. “But I think that it’s really beautiful to see our relationship between two people, that it can be that strong without having to be romantic. I think it’s really wonderful.”
Wayward is now streaming on Netflix.
Release Date
2025 – 2025-00-00
Network
Netflix
