Ginny & Georgia season 2 spoilers ahead.
It’s been a while since we last saw Ginny and Georgia on our screens. The eponymous characters of the wildly popular Netflix hit, played respectively by Antonia Gentry and Brianne Howey, left us on quite the cliffhanger when season 2 concluded in January 2023.
After moving her children Ginny and Austin (Diesel La Torraca) to the fictional town of Wellsbury, Massachusetts, the finale saw Georgia finally marrying the town mayor, Paul Randolph (Scott Porter), whom she’d just come clean to about her rather eventful past, which includes (deep breath): framing Austin’s dad Gil (Aaron Ashmore) for embezzlement (“because he was an abusive asshole”); using the stolen money to survive; hiding a gun in the house which Austin uses to shoot his dad in the arm one night trying to defend Georgia; and basically being a “hustler and a criminal her whole life.”
Eventually Paul moves on from all that, and Georgia marries him while wearing a massive, blue Cinderella-style ball gown in front of the whole town. But just as they tie the knot, P.I. Gabriel Cordova (Alex Mallari Jr.) arrests Georgia for the murder of Tom Fuller. The finale ends with Georgia being driven away in the back of a police car while a sobbing Austin chases after her.
It’s easy to see why each season is consistently in Netflix’s top 10—season 2 was the platform’s most-watched title between January and June 2023—and luckily, we don’t have long to wait to find out what happened, as Ginny & Georgia season 3 has just dropped, and you can bet it’ll sit comfortably in the Netflix top spot for a while. There’s drama, romance, a dash of murder, and sometimes hard-to-watch narrative threads exploring teen mental health. Ginny & Georgia is endlessly entertaining TV, and at the heart of it are Antonia Gentry’s almost poetically troubled teen and Brianne Howey’s criminally-inclined Alabaman Barbie.
So, we sat down with the women behind Ginny and Georgia to find out what life is like on set, how Brianne’s own experience of new motherhood has impacted her role (she welcomed a daughter with husband Matt Ziering in June 2023).
Glamour: Brianne, what was your first impression of Antonia?
Brianne Howey: Oh my god, that she was the most perfect angel baby I’d ever seen in my life. And she’s perfect as Ginny, and I hope they cast me as Georgia.
Antonia, what was your first impression of Brianne?
Antonia Gentry: Duh, she’s Georgia, the most gorgeous woman. I’ve fallen in love with her and she hasn’t even said a word. And then I met her, and her personality was even brighter than her smile.
What about when you guys got talking?
BH: Can I tell you something I remember from one of our first chemistry reads together? At one point, we both left the room so everyone inside could talk. And we were talking, but I so desperately wanted to try to listen to what they were saying inside the room. And I was like, “Do I ask her? Like, should we lean?” But I was like, “It’s too soon. We don’t know each other.”
AG: You should’ve!
BH: That would’ve been a terrible first impression.
What was the most surprising thing you learned about each other from working together?
BH: Gosh, I feel like I’ve known Toni forever now, so it’s not as surprising, but Toni’s an amazing writer—amazing. It’s just an amazing skill she has that surprised me.
And you, Antonia? What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned about working with Brianne?
AG: It’s not that it’s surprising, because duh, and I don’t want you to take this the wrong way, but you’re so funny. Not that you shouldn’t be, and not that I was like, “Why is she funny? Like, that’s weird and surprising!” But you’re so funny, it cracks me up. Like, I belly laugh. And sometimes you don’t even try.
And what’s the best piece of advice Brianne has ever given you?
BH: She doesn’t need any advice! I feel like I learn from Toni.
AG: Do you know what? I don’t know that it’s advice so much as Brianne sets by example. She’s definitely someone who I can confide in, and she’s a great listener, but also she just sets by example. There are ways in which you treat people, and the way you word things and approach certain situations that I just think is so graceful. So it’s literally just how she carries herself that I automatically, like, download and take notes on. Maybe that’s why I haven’t come to you like, “Bri, what should I do?” Because Bri does that, so I should do that.
Who’s had the most embarrassing moment on set and what was it?
BH: I mean, there’s so many. I often think about the time Georgia has to come into your bedroom real hot, and I jumped on the bed, and then Asaf [Benny], our cameraman, fell off the bed because I jumped on the bed too hard, and then the lamps broke. I just didn’t need to come in that hot and that’s why I was embarrassed.
AG: For me, it was season one, when I drink too much black tea liquor. I had a gastrointestinal emergency and had to run away. It was when Ginny comes home drunk, and Georgia calls the cops. It was before that, when I’m giving a speech and everyone’s supposed to be really drunk. It was that day. As soon as I stood on top of the coffee table, I was like, ‘Oh no’. I would clench. Then they called cut, and I had to run.
The show is funny and light-hearted, but it deals with some often complex, dark issues around mental health, abuse, and trauma. Antonia, what was it like portraying that for Ginny?
AG: I think that, in some ways selfishly, playing a character like Ginny, I find catharsis in portraying the emotions that the character goes through. Because ultimately, it’s something that your body has to release, and so sometimes subconsciously, if there’s things that I’ve been holding on to myself, if I’m releasing it as the character, I can leave set, go home and realize, “Oh, I’ve also released this other thing that I didn’t realise I was holding on to.” But also, ultimately, it is a challenge, I think, to play a character that’s so young and yet has to deal with such dark situations. But I feel like I’ve developed a sense of protection for this character, and I understand her psychology, and how she carries herself and would react to, really, anything. There’s a part of me that’s just, like… I try to do it in a way that takes care of her.
Brianne, how did your experience of motherhood impact how you approached season 3?
BH: I mean, prior to being a mom, my entrance in was my love for my siblings. I have four younger siblings. We have really big age gaps, so that part felt natural. And I think, though, now that I am a mom, I feel like I just resonate with Georgia even more in her obsession with Ginny. It was more like, all this stuff I used to think was just ridiculous about Georgia, I now find to be, she’s very grounded in this, it makes total sense to me, and I fully understand now. It has surprised me. It’s made my heart even bigger. And I didn’t know that that was possible.
What can fans expect from season 3? What are you excited for us to see?
BH: It’s a very dramatic season, very emotional.
AG: Every episode is whiplash.
BH: All of the relationships have a lot of strain. We see new sides to everybody, but especially Ginny and Georgia.
AG: I think that’s what I’m the most excited about, is people are gonna see a very fun version of—well, I thought it was fun!—version of Ginny that they haven’t seen before. And I think in relation to Georgia, they have an even new dynamic I think this season, especially by the end, that I think will be really, really interesting to see how people it really react to.
BH: It really tests their relationship.
Ginny and Georgia season 3 is available to stream on Netflix now.
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