Like, kind of from the beginning? Okay.

Yeah, absolutely immediately.

Um, it's no secret, uh, as a writer and as a reader, I, I love strong women.

So the choice to make Mae the more, you know, sensible, backbone-y kind of one was, was a no-brainer.

Uh, Hawk, I really, I really hammed up Romeo at the beginning being just a lovesick idiot.

Like, he's sitting there having a big cry about, uh, about Rosalina, and I'm just like, "That's, that's gotta be, that's gotta be the way it is." [chuckles] It just lined up with the, what, what I thought with the source material characters too.

Uh, like Juliet's kinda got that, that sheltered life before she begins her own rebellion in, uh, in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo's just got, got more of that freedom.

[chuckles]