Everything I Know About Love’s Emma Appleton Is Over Rom-Coms

“I do think it was difficult,” Emma said of portraying the subtle yet painful experience. “I was trying to find the right gauge of where she is in each episode, and what I had to get into my head as well, is that you see one side of Maggie, which is the slightly performative, how she wants everyone to see her, and then the audience also gets to see what’s going on in her head.”

On the one hand, Maggie’s trying to pretend like everything’s okay and that she’s “happy for her friend,” Emma continued, but she’s also “starting to feel lost and sad.”

Will Maggie and Birdy’s friendship be able to endure everything that comes their way? Stream Everything I Know About Love on Peacock, beginning Thursday, Aug. 25, to see for yourself.

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