TVLINE | Did you feel like you needed that scene to be able to get people who were on Team Scott to understand the depth of Joss’s conundrum? Did she have to make the “right” choice first before she could be with Harry?
I don’t think it was to get the audience on board. We thought it was honestly what Joss Carver would go through. She’s always been a deeply feeling woman. And despite her loose sexual morals, she’s always been a great sister and a great friend and a good person. So that scene just reflected what we felt would be the organic journey for her — a journey that eventually led to her grabbing him and kissing him.
TVLINE | Let’s talk about that, though. How did she go from the restaurant scene — literally closing the door on their connection — to completely surrendering at the engagement party/surprise wedding?
The whole season for Joss and Harry has been about the sublimation of their true feelings. Their feelings for one another have been in their subconscious and popping up to the surface at different times for both of them. So, when she shows up at the Malibu house, she’s thinking, “We’re going to be engaged for a year. I’ll have time to work out my conflict. I’ll push Harry aside. I’ll recommit to Scott. I will focus on my love for Scott.” Because she really does love him. I mean, it is a viable choice.
But when the gauntlet is thrown down by Scott and suddenly the [surprise] wedding is upon her and she’s in the dress and she can’t breathe — she puts it all together, she realizes, ” I don’t have time to grow to embrace this as my first choice, as my true love.” And then she asks Savi the question that she really does in her heart know the answer to, which is, “Who told Scott about the record player?” She knew it was Harry and that meant to her that Harry knows her better than anyone in the world.
I don’t think it was to get the audience on board. We thought it was honestly what Joss Carver would go through. She’s always been a deeply feeling woman. And despite her loose sexual morals, she’s always been a great sister and a great friend and a good person. So that scene just reflected what we felt would be the organic journey for her — a journey that eventually led to her grabbing him and kissing him.
TVLINE | Let’s talk about that, though. How did she go from the restaurant scene — literally closing the door on their connection — to completely surrendering at the engagement party/surprise wedding?
The whole season for Joss and Harry has been about the sublimation of their true feelings. Their feelings for one another have been in their subconscious and popping up to the surface at different times for both of them. So, when she shows up at the Malibu house, she’s thinking, “We’re going to be engaged for a year. I’ll have time to work out my conflict. I’ll push Harry aside. I’ll recommit to Scott. I will focus on my love for Scott.” Because she really does love him. I mean, it is a viable choice.
But when the gauntlet is thrown down by Scott and suddenly the [surprise] wedding is upon her and she’s in the dress and she can’t breathe — she puts it all together, she realizes, ” I don’t have time to grow to embrace this as my first choice, as my true love.” And then she asks Savi the question that she really does in her heart know the answer to, which is, “Who told Scott about the record player?” She knew it was Harry and that meant to her that Harry knows her better than anyone in the world.
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