We Were Liars author E. Lockhart has revealed returning cast for Season 2 of the Prime Video adaptation of her best-selling novel.
Joseph Zada, who will soon appear as Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, will be back as Johnny Sinclair Dennis, and Emil Alyn Lind will also return to reprise her role as Cadence Sinclair Eastman, who narrated Season 1. The three Sinclair sisters and aunts who connect the cousins in the first season are also set to return.
“We have Emily Alyn Lind coming back as Cadence, and we have all our wonderful mom actresses, and we have Joseph Zada coming back as Johnny,” Lockhart told Deadline the day before her new novel We Fell Apart hit bookshelves. “New stories will happen with all of those characters in addition to all the Family of Liars juiciness.”
Lockhart’s prequel Family of Liars tells the story of one summer when Sinclair sisters Carrie (Mamie Gummer), Penny (Caitlin Fitzgerald) and Bess (Candice King) had their own mysterious happening on Beechwood Island when they were teenagers. The plan is to interweave that material with the younger generation’s storylines and cast younger versions of the three Sinclair sisters as well.
“We have Season 2 planned for We Were Liars, and the showrunners, Julie Plec and Carina Adley Mackenzie, are taking the story that’s in Family of Liars,my second book, but they are also adding all kinds of fun new twists and turns,” Lockhart said. “They have lots of ideas up their sleeves, so that people who know Family of Liars will get to see everything that they want to see, but they will also get to be surprised. I think it’s going to be really fun.”
Viewers may remember the Season 1 cliffhanger that involves Gummer’s Aunt Carrie discovering the ghost of her dead son Johnny waiting for her in the finale, revealing that he may be stuck on Beechwood Island.
And where does We Fell Apart fit into the television series adaptation? Lockhart describes the novel as a standalone story, but there are nods to the world of We Were Liars in the story.
“All I can really say is that my showrunners have early copies of this book, and we will see what they want to cook up,” she shared.
We Fell Apart comes out Nov. 4.
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