[Warning: The next comprises spoilers from Thursday’s episode of The Daring Kind. Learn at your personal threat!]
The Bold Type is well-known for tackling powerful subjects, whether or not it is about LGBTQ rights, gun management, or sexual assault, however its most up-to-date episode touched on a subject that many ladies don’t love to speak about — miscarriage. It is clear this storyline is barely simply getting began, however already the present is dealing with it with the care and nuance we have come to count on from Jane (Katie Stevens), Kat (Aisha Dee), and Sutton (Meghann Fahy).
When Sutton first realized she was pregnant within the midseason premiere, she was simply as shocked as everybody else, contemplating she and Richard (Sam Page) hadn’t even been making an attempt for teenagers. Nonetheless, the unintended being pregnant introduced the couple loads of pleasure, they usually eagerly began anticipating their little bundle of pleasure. Sadly although, Sutton went by way of what one in ten pregnant ladies expertise and miscarried in her first trimester. Although she was devastated by the loss, Sutton additionally struggled with the guilt of realizing she was relieved to have miscarried, which added an excellent larger emotional burden on her shoulders.
TV Information talked to showrunner Wendy Straker Hauser about Sutton’s heartbreaking story arc this yr and what’s subsequent for her and Richard as they recuperate from this loss.
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Miscarriage is a fairly large subject to sort out, so how and why did you guys determine that this was the fitting story arc for Sutton this yr?
Wendy Straker Hauser: It is fascinating, Sutton’s at all times been our lovable, humorous, whimsical character, and we needed to see her undergo some harder challenges. So I positively suppose we have accomplished that this season. I feel it is at all times fascinating – I’ve a 12-year-old son, and while you get pregnant or while you’re watching motherhood or fatherhood, it usually brings up issues out of your previous, how you are feeling about your personal childhood, what your relationship together with your dad and mom was like. So we simply thought it will be actually fascinating. Everyone knows Sutton’s backstory, and that her state of affairs together with her mother has been difficult, and that she wasn’t at all times dependable, to say the least. I feel having her kind of face a few of these issues subconsciously at this level, most likely, however they’re there and [how] daunting bringing one other life into the world is as a lot because it’s thrilling and great and she or he loves Richard, it comes with so much, particularly while you’re 26. We thought that might be actually fascinating to begin to discover.
Do you suppose Sutton feels relieved as a result of she wasn’t able to be a mom? Or is she beginning to doubt whether or not she desires children in any respect?
Straker Hauser: We will discover all of that later, so I do not wish to spoil the episodes we’ve got left, however I feel that she actually wasn’t prepared. She’s 26 years outdated. She simply obtained married to Richard. She’s been ready for a really very long time for her promotion, and she or he simply obtained it. And the juggle looks like so much. I feel she was excited after which I feel she was actually shocked by the truth that she was relieved. On this episode, she would not know what she’s feeling for a lot of the episode and that was a problem for us, and hopefully, we pulled it off. However I feel she desperately needed to really feel one thing, and she or he was kind of numb and in order that was one of many the explanation why we thought it will be fascinating for her to consciously tackle the styling of a 5-year-old boy to say, “I wish to put myself in a uncooked state of affairs so I can perceive what I am feeling higher.” As a result of she would not fairly perceive the place she’s at. After which attending to the place of realizing, “I am relieved.” After which with that, I feel there’s some disgrace for her. There is a feeling that we should always all need this, and it is such a blessing. And it truly is, however it’s extra sophisticated than that for Sutton. So now she has to essentially, shifting ahead, take care of the truth that she did really feel reduction, and what does that imply? Does it imply that it is simply not the fitting time? Does it imply that she would not wish to have kids? Does it imply she’s afraid she’s going to develop into her mom? These are all issues that I feel she’s going to grapple with sooner or later.
Aisha Dee, Meghann Fahy, Katie Stevens, The Daring Kind
Completely, and Meghann Fahy simply knocked it out of the park with this episode.
Straker Hauser: Yeah, she’s so proficient and wonderful. And I feel truthfully, she was excited to kind of dig deeper and tackle various things that she hadn’t accomplished earlier than character-wise for her.
You did not point out that with every little thing happening together with her professionally, possibly she wasn’t prepared to leap proper into the child factor. Did citing the potential for terminating the being pregnant really feel taboo as a result of she and Richard had been married and completely happy and did need children, or was that one thing you guys had been ever contemplating?
Straker Hauser: I do not suppose we actually weren’t contemplating it. We had frivolously touched on abortion in Kat’s backstory and storyline, and I feel as a result of [Sutton] and Richard are so in love they usually’re married and he is older, it did not really feel like an space we needed to essentially go into. And I do not suppose she would have chosen that path… If I am being completely candid, I had an expertise like this in my life. You recognize, all of us convey our personal tales into the writers room, and I keep in mind having gotten pregnant rapidly after I had my son and being a bit overwhelmed simply making an attempt to wrap my head round it. Then, sadly, we miscarried, and there was that feeling of, “Perhaps this timing wasn’t one of the best time, so I suppose it is OK.” It’s fascinating when generally the world has a special path for you, after which it’s a must to simply come to phrases with no matter you are truly, actually feeling and type of work out what meaning for you… We simply needed to discover her not making that daring of a choice however having a choice be made, kind of for her after which how she was feeling due to it.
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There’s quite a lot of kind of disgrace and silence round miscarriages. Are we going to see Sutton continued to take care of that?
Straker Hauser: I feel she’s going to segue extra into why she felt a way of reduction. And likewise, we did not usually speak in regards to the enormous age distinction between Richard and Sutton, however there may be one. And he is in a really totally different place. And I feel that what we’ll understand is whereas she was just a little hesitant, he was over the moon. It is the start of exhibiting some actual struggles with being 20 years aside. I feel she’s going to start out wanting inward extra. All of us have the issues that kind of comply with us round from our childhood, and we are able to push them off and never even understand they’re there. However a part of rising up – and I feel a part of your late 20s – is that a few of that stuff catches as much as you. I am excited to discover just a little bit extra of that as these women have to overcome greater hurdles than they might have of their early 20s, if that is smart.
What’s in retailer for Richard and Sutton’s relationship within the wake of this loss? Such as you mentioned, it looks as if they’re on very emotional journeys, however totally different journeys so far as the miscarriage goes.
Straker Hauser: We have at all times seen Richard be simply the perfect, wonderful, quintessential boyfriend/husband that all of us dream of. Even when issues do not go his approach, he kind of reassesses, pivots, and at all times comes again to how a lot he loves Sutton. They usually do love one another so, a lot. I feel we’ll see them have just a little bit extra cracks and challenges and watch them as they attempt to navigate them. In order that’s a special, new territory for them. And I can not let you know precisely what’s in retailer but, however it’s been fascinating. Each of their characters have entered new terrain within the again half of the season, and it has been – I feel it was very rewarding for them and actually rewarding for us to look at. And likewise very actual.
The Daring Kind airs Thursdays at 10/9c on Freeform.
Aisha Dee, Meghann Fahy, Katie Stevens, The Daring Kind