- Hey, Younger fans.
I'm Taylor Strecker and we're about to go
way behind the scenes of the latest episode
right here in my living room.
This is your Getting Younger After Show.
(upbeat music)
Team Charles must be standing up
and cheering right about now because Chiza has reunited
while Quinn is on a plane to Mystique all by herself,
Here to relive all the romance with me,
is my guest, Molly Bernard.
Hey girl.
- Hello, hello, hello.
- Thank you for joining.
- I'm so glad to be here.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
- Let's talk about the swoon or the reunion
between Liza and Charles, please and thank you.
What was your reaction like to that moment.
- Charles is so clearly still in love with Liza,
so the efforts to be with Quinn,
just it, they feel so futile
because he's struggling even though he's like mad
and he's being a baby about it,
but it's like finally they're kissing
and it's like it's a hot kiss, I'm into it.
(laughing)
- It was a super romantic turn in what's been
a pretty rough season for these two.
- Yeah. - Mostly because of Charles,
if we're gonna be honest, right?
I mean, he's been a little bit of a bitch baby.
- He's been a grumpy grape.
(laughing)
- That's nicer, grumpy grape.
In this instance has love saved the day
or do you think Charles has some 'splaining to do?
- Okay, so I was thinking,
I was like if I were in Liza's shoes and
I knew that he probably also just kissed Quinn
like in the airport or something,
I'd be like why am I kissing him
right outside of the airport?
It's just so complicated and so,
it's yeah, it's funny you asked that
because I remember thinking like,
oh right, what would,
what would I do?
And surely their emotion,
their emotional state and their feelings for each other are,
have gotta be so heightened that
it overrides everything.
- Right. - Right, like,
I guess he has explaining to do, but not really.
It's so, it's kind of so clear what was going on.
- It's also like one of those things where it's like,
initially maybe he doesn't have any explaining to do,
but like eventually he will.
- Right, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Sure. - Like after one
too many glasses of whatever, Sancerre.
It's like remember that time at the airport?
- Yeah.
- I want to revisit that.
Okay, so another huge event in this episode
happened when Lauren's dad had a heart attack at a party,
but it ended up being okay
and he was treated by Lauren's ex Dr. Max, hello, hello.
First off, how much do we love Josh Pais
and Kathy Najimy as Lauren's parents.
- I mean, there is no better
combination of human beings.
Also they're featured so much this season
and they are so good together
and honestly not to toot my own horn,
but the three of us are so good together
- Yeah. - that it's like,
it's perfect casting.
They're hysterical and the scene
when Max came in they were like,
and it was revealed that Max was the doctor who saved
you know, Lauren's dad's life, it was,
we could not keep it together.
It was so funny and so much fun
and it was even that scene when Josh has the heart attack
or sorry, Josh Pais has the heart attack,
that was hysterical.
He was like doing these jumping
(laughing)
and he and Kathy, they just have this crazy fucking alchemy.
It's so cool.
- Speaking of alchemy,
were you excited to see Max come back into Lauren's life?
- Yeah, I was.
It's, I'm so excited for fans to see what happens next,
because it's just, it's so good
and it's so nice to have, you know Ben back,
but also the presence of Max back is like,
what's gonna happen.
- Yeah, well, if memory serves right,
they broke up because she thought that being with him
made her basic.
- That's right.
- Do you think Lauren has moved past
worrying about things like that
or is this fear of being basic like a valid concern?
- I mean I think,
I think there's been a number of seasons,
you know, have passed since Lauren's fear
of being basic was quite present
and I, it's, I think there's, you know she's on a journey of
learning to love herself and I mean
she already does love herself so very much as we know.
- Yes.
- I think there's part of this that comes with age of like
maybe the people that I love
are not the, you know, Andy Warhols of the world,
they're the Tony Fauci's of the world.
(laughing)
And that's, yeah.
- You know what, I'll take a Fauci any day of the week.
- Sure, sure, sign me up, sign me right up.
- Sign me up.
Speaking of exes, can we talk about
how Pauline shows up this episode
and actively tries to get Charles and Liza back together
and like not ironically, like dead ass serious.
- I know, how fucking weird is that.
That made me when it,
when I got the script, I was like, this is kind of funky
and then when I watched the episode, I was like
this is really funky, I like it, I like where it's going.
It's so sweet.
It's just so weird, I love it.
- Yeah. - I love it.
- Do you think that this act of kindness,
rekindling their romance, does it make up for
what Pauline did when she outed Liza?
- I think Pauline might think that it,
that it's doing that, that it's serving that purpose, but
I don't know that it's like a, for me
my brain didn't like try to make a connection between
she's making up for that.
It was more like
both of those women have been through hell
and back with Charles.
- Yes. - So they each have their own
not vendetta, but they have a lot of complicated feelings
and I actually thought a really nice olive branch,
but not necessarily with the intention of like,
okay, great now all is forgiven for my anger
and my hurt feelings because Pauline was really hurt.
Like Liza did that, right?
Like it's not that Pauline is evil.
She was responding to,
you know, making a, having a deep friendship with Liza
and it not being what she thought it was.
- Pauline, I mean, I feel like she was
a bit of a villainess for a moment,
but like all of the characters in Younger,
even the villains aren't really, you can't,
you can always empathize with them at some point in time.
- Yeah, I know.
- During this final season of Younger,
we've been taking time in each episode of Getting Younger
to look back at our favorite scenes.
So for better or for worse, Lauren is always looking out
for her girl, Kelsey.
Let's revisit a scene from season four
where Kelsey was the one who had Lauren's back.
Let's take a look
- On Tuesday, Lindy, Hector and Dorff's VP
asked me to lunch.
Lindy's insufferable and talks so much
that Hector calls her fat Lindy, even though she's not fat,
that's just as put down for everyone.
Anyway, I settle in for a long boring conversation
when Lindy looks at me and she says.
- You're fired.
- We need your work phone.
- Quick. and to the point
for the first time in fat Lindy's life.
- Oh my God Lauren, I'm so sorry.
- It's fine, I'll be okay.
You know, I was outgrowing the company anyway
and I told that to Hector, which in hindsight
is probably why this whole thing happened.
- Okay, look, everything is going to be fine,
but you need to leave the nest.
- No, I can't leave here Kelsey.
I'm not a member, they'll never let me back in.
- Oh, Lauren, give it up.
Okay, this place isn't that great.
It's like living in a giant dollhouse.
It's over curated, it's far too flowery
and it's a little infantilizing,
- Yeah, well you know what's infantilizing
being unemployed and living with your parents.
I'm not leaving here until I have enough contacts
to start my own PR firm.
Failure is not an option.
- I get that, I do,
but neither is sleeping in a closet, okay.
You're coming to stay with me at Josh's, okay.
- Okay. - All right.
- There's not a shower here is there?
- No.
- Oh it's so good.
What do you remember about shooting that scene?
- That scene was so fun,
I remember a lot about that actually.
It was a very exciting storyline for me
because I was super pumped that Lauren was in trouble
and that Lauren was struggling.
It's really the first time we saw that and
yeah, I think having Kelsey
show up for Lauren is, we see their friendship
and we see the ride or die of it all.
Yeah, that scene was really fun to shoot.
I love Andy Fleming, he directed that episode.
He really, he loves my camp
and he likes the size that I can, you know
kind of let Lauren go to
and he also was really with me
that when Lauren says failure is not an option,
that, that's not funny, that's dead serious to her.
- Yeah. - And I'm glad that
he kept that in the edit because it,
that's Lauren's,
that's one of her character objectives, right,
is to succeed.
- I have to say the other day so I watch,
you know, confession, I watch Younger,
like I re-watch it a lot, so,
I happened just the other day,
this scene came on and I was like
this is one of the best scenes of all time.
It's so brilliant.
You're like you said that you're sleeping in a closet.
It's like standing up
like a horse. - Yes.
- It's so good.
Speaking of--
- And that also speaks to like the length
that Lauren will go to, to not fail.
- Yes, yes.
I mean, it's really, it's admirable, I would say.
(laughing)
I have to ask you, what's gonna go down
as your all time favorite Younger scene?
- You know,
I can answer it like a couple of different ways.
I think the scene in Madison Square Park where,
the topless Tuesday scene, like the very first one
where we come face to face with Lauren and who she is.
I think that's one of my favorites because it just,
it in a nutshell encompasses what this character is
and what, how she lives her life.
One of my all time favorite scenes for sure
is jumping out of the pink Hummer and screaming at Diana,
"Get in the Hummer bitch."
(laughing)
That scene was so fun to shoot.
Hilary and I have a fucking funny scene this year
where we're, I explain to her why
her kind of
lying by omission is comparable to her
obsession with Chernobyl,
the show.
It's a really like funny nuanced scene
that it's just it makes me cackle so much.
- Okay, so while we're looking back,
let's have some fun with a segment we're calling
When You Were Younger
I'm gonna show you something you said in an interview
several seasons ago
and you're gonna let us know
if anything has changed since then,
Back in season four, you talked about
being able to relate to Diana's cyber-stalking
then boyfriend Richard's ex.
Here you are, take a look.
- Talk about
in the context of new relationships
getting to a place where you're secure enough
to not wanna cyber-stalk the ex
or does that a thing that you just always wanna do?
- No I,
I actually relate to it a lot.
I don't necessarily think I'm a jealous person,
but I am a curious person
and I do have an overactive imagination.
So I was actually just telling this to my boyfriend
the other day that like, I finally feel like I,
not finally, but I think I really care about him so deeply
that I'm not that obsessed with his exes.
Like I haven't,
I think I looked them up once on Instagram
and got it out of my system,
but it has not been a repeated thing,
which is like, I like that,
I like that I'm getting a little older
and there's like just some confidence there,
but I totally get like,
come on that person was
involved with your person.
You gotta look.
You know, you can't help it
(laughing)
- So much has changed,
okay, so Molly, do you think
checking out the ex is still a given
or has anything changed about what you said
when you were younger?
- Oh boy.
First of all,
who was I dating?
Who was my boyfriend?
- I literally don't know. - I don't even know.
- I do not pick the clips.
I was just as shooketh as you.
- Wow.
My eyes are like watering and these are not tears,
these are like confusion,
bubble water droplets of confusion.
(laughing)
- I know. - Okay I guess I'm,
I are confused.
Whoa.
I mean, I think my answer is still the same
just minus boyfriend, but
and maybe I was,
I don't know, I love to look people up.
I love to see what people are doing.
- I know.
- What are my exes doing?
What are their current partners doing?
Sometimes I do late night Instagram bullshit
or late at night Google stalk.
It's not regular, I'm not,
I'm not like obsessed with it, but
I think my younger self might actually have been
in this case more wise than old girl right now.
- Yeah.
That's what I'm, seeing that clip I was like, holy growth.
That's like was my first reaction, right?
Like you are in a totally different place
than you were in that clip
and I also, I can totally
feel you on that 'cause I too
see things that I've sent from the past and I'm like
who are you lady?
To myself.
- Yeah, it's also wild that's,
it's so crazy to also think that like,
uh oh, I am a person who is sometimes people interview
and there's a camera involved
and I see shit and like, oh,
it's different this time.
Who the fuck was that boyfriend?
- I don't know.
- Boyfriend that, in that, what season was that?
I'm so confused.
- Girl that looks like it was season like one or two.
- Two or three 'cause I had the long red hair.
- Okay.
- I have no idea it might've, yeah,
it might've been the boy before that I was
boyfriend and girlfriend with, I guess before I met Hannah.
When boyfriends hath disappeared from the picture.
- Girl, I know.
I know how that story go.
Molly, there's only one episode left in the whole series.
What would you say fans have to look forward to
in the series finale of Younger?
- I personally think it's
a beautifully elegant conclusion.
It also ends with a ton of possibility as well.
I think for the fans of our show
they're gonna be so happy and sad,
it's obviously bittersweet, but it is a beautiful ending
and something that
I feel, I feel like I can say to the fans like
we took care of you.
- Thank you so much Molly for joining.
I really appreciate it.
- Thanks for having me, I love.
- I love, I'll see you soon.
- Yes, please. - I know.
- I need to visit that loft, it looks so pretty.
- Oh yeah, thank you, really?
It's yours.
- Oh my God, thank you.
I can't wait until you invite me over, I'm ready.
- You're welcome.
And thank you everybody for watching along,
I'm Taylor Strecker and this is Getting Younger.
Join me again right here after the next episode
for more behind the scenes stories to insights from the cast
until then here's a sneak peek of what's coming up.
- What happened, Charles and Quinn take off to paradise.
and you spend the night in some dive bar somewhere?
- Not exactly.
Charles didn't get on the plane.
Maggie, he told me that he loved me
and
(phone vibrating)
- It's Cass.
Hold that thought.
- Okay.
- Good morning, Cass.
- Listen, Maggie, now that your career is blowing up
thanks in no small part to yours truly.
I'd like my sculpture back.
- Well, that's fair,
it's here, you can come pick it up anytime.
- I don't have time to schlep to Brooklyn,
can you send it to me
and please sign it
'cause now it may actually be worth something.
- Yeah, I'm not sending the sculpture.
- Fine, just bring it to dinner then.
- Wait, did I miss an invitation.
- For what?
- Dinner?
- Oh yeah, sure, I'll have dinner with you.
We'll figure everything out then.
My treat,
I'll send you the deets.
- Is everything okay?
- Yeah, Cass,
she wants to take me to dinner.
Like I owe or something.
- She wants to take you to dinner.
- We have a complicated history, Liza.
I mean, I don't think I need to explain
that kind of thing to you.
- All right, touché.
- Anyway, I'm just glad that you're home safe
and as far as the rest of the story goes
may I just say, I don't understand straight people,
y'all are crazier than the gays.