Alyvia Alyn Lind is beyond proud of her sister, Emily Alyn Lind, who stars in the hit Prime Video series, We Were Liars.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Alyvia praised both her sister and the series for the emotional depth it brought to viewers.
“Ok no, that is a show that needs therapy after. If anything that is it. I knew the entire story and I literally don’t think I’ve ever sobbed harder in my entire life than watching the end of that show,” she admitted.
She went on to gush over Emily’s work. “I’m so insanely proud of her and the rest of that cast. And yeah, I’m just so excited for the future of that show as well. It’s been an amazing year.”
The sisters’ mother, Barbara Alyn Woods is an actress as well, most well known for her role as Deb Scott in the popular tv series, One Tree Hill. The 63-year-old actress recently opened up about her new boyfriend, Mark Anderson, a former contestant on The Golden Bachelor.
In an interview with People, Woods discussed how she discovered him saying, “His daughter was on The Bachelor. Her name’s Kelsey. She’s beautiful, she’s wonderful, all of his kids are. At the end of The Bachelor, they go to their hometown. They take the Bachelor home to meet their family. And Mark was there being all cute and dimply and sweet and like, ‘Who’s that guy?’”
The star then DM’ed Mark on Instagram and the rest is history. “By the time he got kicked off, he had already responded to me. We started talking through social media, then you go to the next step, texting, and then you go the next step and you talk. We started talking, and it’s been nonstop.”
Alyvia is making headlines too, most recently starring in Netflix’s Wayward, which quickly rose to the number one spot of the platform’s global rankings.
Emily, meanwhile, has been candid about how she first landed the role of Cadence in We Were Liars. In an interview with People, the 23-year-old revealed that she had submitted a self-tape almost on a whim, without much expectation.
“I just took a chance. I thought, ‘Okay, this is never going to be me, I’m never going to get this.’ But I took a chance and I put it on tape because that’s what we do. And of course, it’s the ones that you never think you’re going to get that they were like, ‘Of course, yeah, we would love to meet with you,’” Emily explained.
The breakout star also said, “I don’t see myself as this girl who’s innocent at all. I see myself as this person that’s loud, obnoxious, annoying. So, really, I’m going to be the protagonist in this show?”
“And then there was just all these people auditioning, all these things. And I was like, ‘I’m still not going to get it. I’m not sweet. I’m not like this. I’m not the pretty girl. I’m not going to get it.’ And then I did.”
Lind later mentioned how much she loves We Were Liars saying that the story is “absolutely balls to the wall, soapy, fun, dramatic [and] unafraid of itself,” and that it’s “something that knows what it is. It knows its tone.”
Fans who were left shaken by the series’ shocking finale won’t have to say goodbye just yet. We Were Liars was recently renewed for a second season on Amazon.
“We loved making this show with so many spectacular humans,” said co-creators Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie in a statement. “The fan response was truly special. There are still plenty of secrets buried on Beechwood Island and we can’t wait to keep digging them up.”
“MacKenzie and Plec have big, big plans for Season Two, including everything readers of my books are dying to see onscreen — and a lot of surprises as well,” said E. Lockhart, who wrote the bestselling series.
