Like the audience, Lucy is now left to grapple with the reality that Stephen\u2019s charismatic personality belies his deeply manipulative, and borderline sociopathic, nature. \u201cJackson is clearly a master at playing all of those levels, so you never really know what is preconceived, what is spur of the moment, what is calculated, what is reactive,\u201d says Rafaeli. (White, to his credit, says that he has always tried to bring a \u201csense of humor\u201d and \u201clightness\u201d to the character, even though \u201che does some really bad things.\u201d)<\/p>\n
Given that she has \u201cknown a lot of people that would be labeled narcissists\u201d in her own life, Oppenheimer feels a particular sense of empathy for Stephen, even though she does not condone his actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t like to think that most people are just born a certain way. Of course, there are things that are unchangeable in all of us, but I do think Stephen, to a large extent, is a product of his environment,\u201d she explains. \u201cHe grew up in a situation where love was a currency, and it was something you gamble with, something that is taken away and given as a reward. If your initial role models for love are so unstable, you aren\u2019t given a f*cking chance. You have to have so much luck to get out of that \u2014 and he didn\u2019t have that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The showrunner knows that viewers have spent a long time questioning whether Stephen truly has the capacity for change. \u201cI feel like we answer the question of Stephen\u2019s morality, to a degree, in a fun way, which I think people will be surprised by,\u201d she teases.<\/p>\n
While penning the second season, Oppenheimer and the rest of her writers\u2019 room got into a heated debate over how Lucy handled Pippa being sexually assaulted by Lydia\u2019s brother, Chris, at a party. With Pippa refusing to come forward or press charges against Chris, Lucy falsely claims she was also one of his victims so that he might face accountability \u2014 only for that decision to completely backfire on her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like the audience, Lucy is now left to grapple with the reality that Stephen\u2019s charismatic personality belies his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,43,80622,411],"class_list":["post-128133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-tell-me-lies-hulu","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}