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Katie Stevens, Rita Volk and Carter Covington talk last night’s “Faking It”

On last night’s episode of Faking It, Karma and Amy decided to reveal some of each other’s long-kept secrets, and that included an unearthed music video Karma once made called “Hump Day.”

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We asked Katie and Rita about last night’s revealing episode during an MTV press junket last month and saved these tidbits until after fans could see it for themselves.

AfterEllen.com: In the episode, Karma tells Amy she’s been toying with her emotions because she liked the attention. Does that mean Karma will never have feelings for Amy?

Katie Stevens: We don’t know what the writers have planned. I don’t want to say “They’ll never be together” and then a season from now, two seasons from now, they decide “Hey let’s try it.” But I think that that will give more insight to fans-because I get the messages: “Karma, you’re a bitch. Why are you playing with Amy’s feelings?” It’s like, there’s a reason for it, and I think you see Karma wants to be accepted so much, and the person she’s most accepted by is Amy. And as people, we want to find love as well as friendship, and I think she’s getting both of those things from Amy, even though she doesn’t return or reciprocate those romantic feelings. I think it felt nice to her that she was loved unconditionally by this person in both regards. So, how can you say no to that and especially it’s your person that’s your best friend, the person you can’t imagine losing. So I think that’s the point Karma realizes, “Alright, I either need to let this go and let you go, or I can keep hurting you.”

AE: How did it feel hearing that, Rita?

Rita Volk: I guess when I read that, I understood it. I understand what she saidwe all have this desire to be accepted and loved, especially someone like Karma, who, in the beginning of the series, was very much like “I want to be popular, and I like that attention.” And I think her character has grown so much, but I mean how would you feel hearing that in real life? I guess it’s kind of like, screwed up in a way. It’s like, “You put me through all of this for your own kind of selfish need to feel loved and validated.” But at the same time, I understand because it makes you feel good, and what better way to be loved by someone than to have it be by somebody you’re so close to and that you have this relationship with. So, you know, you understand it, but it doesn’t make it easier. But it’s definitely understandable.

AE: You also embarrass each other a bit in the episode.

KS: How did you like that? How did you like the music video?

RV: It’s the best thing I’ve ever seen. It was epic.

AE: It was pretty amazing.

KS: No one else was there that day on set.

RV: How excited are the fans going to be about that?

KS: That’s what I say, fans on Twitter and Instagram, everyone under al my pictures is like “You’re so beautiful, do you ever take a bad picture?” I’m like, “Just you wait!” They’re like “Can you ever look ugly?” I’m like, “Yes! I got it for you right here.”

AE: Very high production value, though!

KS: I was talking with [showrunner] Carter [Covington] about it, and we kind of came up with this story of she went to this place that like makes music videos for people, and they have sets. That’s why she ends up with a camel in the video. But I did those.

RV: I don’t know what that video was. I don’t know what the inspiration was, but it was amazing.

KS: At DisneyWorld they had this thing, at least when I was little, where you could go in, and you could record a song and make a music video, so that’s what it was.

AE: Less elaborate, but still! That had to be fun.

KS: And what’s hilarious is the person who choreographed the dancing I do in it choreographed Magic Mike. She came in, and I was like “I’m so sorry. You spent hours upon hours watching sexy Channing Tatum do stuff, and now you have to do this, but whatever!” She was like, “No, it’s so much fun!”

AE: Is it hard to not look sexy and be really cheesy?

KS: No that was so easy.

RV: [laughs] That was definitely easy for her not to be sexy!

KS: It was really easy. Did you see my braces? They were a retainer that are specifically molded for my mouth so I can wear them whenever I want.

AE: And see? Amy still loved Karma through it.

KS: But it’s funny because I had so much fun making that video. It was just something that was supposed to be ridiculous and embarrassing, and I’m just gonna give zero shits. So that’s what I did.

On the next page: Carter Covington on the future of Karmy.

We also asked showrunner Carter Covington about Karma’s revelation in last night’s episode, and what’s in store for the rest of the season.

AE: Talk about how you approached this season because a lot of things have changed since the beginning of the show.

Carter Covington: You know, breaking this season was really hard because I know where I want to take this show-like I know how I want to wrap it up, but we’re not at that point yet, or, at least MTV has not told me we are at that point. So I kind of had to figure out, what can these episodes be about if I can’t take it to where I want to take it yet? And one of the things that-the benefit of everyone leaving for the summer was that it’s a blank slate. So we decided to really put Karma and Amy’s relationship to the test, and we also tapped into a theme that is friendship and that friends-the relationship between friends can be more complicated and more tricky to negotiate than it can be with a romantic partner, especially when friends become friends with other people.

So after the summer, this whole group is kind of mixed in new ways: Shane and Karma are friends now, Karma and Amy have spent the summer apart, Amy and Lauren grow closer, Liam’s also apart. So it’s playing with kind of our core character dynamics but shaking them up like a snowglobe and just letting that all play out. So the first five episodes are exploring that and the latter five become-we’ve got some new love interests and we’ve to some fun intrigue and “Faking It” takes on a new [meaning], at least in the Amy/Kama world.

AE: Do you see the show moving past high school?

CC: If the show were as popular as I wish it were, and we had as many seasons as we could, I would wrap up a version of it-sort of like Awkward‘s done-with high school, and tell that story I want to tell. And I’d like to fast forward five years.

AE: Karma tells Amy that she only really liked the attention from her and made it seem she wasn’t ever interested in her romantically. Is that how she really feels?

CC: I don’t think that that issue is resolved. I think that that is what Karma feels in that moment. Where they are in their friendship, I think that’s the reason she’s giving herself. I leave open the door for her to examine that further as we go further along. But I do think it’s true. I do think it’s a true part of their dynamic. I think that whether-as their relationship remains complicated, at some point, Karma is going to have look at why these complications exist and kind of dig a little deeper and I would like to be able to look at that at some point. I hope that I get to.

AE: So the Karmy door is not closed?

CC: On my last show, we ended on crazy cliffhangers, and there was no resolution, and it was really was hard for me. And on this show, I’m really trying to feed some answers so that if the show were to end, that it wouldn’t feel like everything got dropped off a cliff. So I kind of had that in my mind this season, just knowing the way TV works and you just never know if you’re gonna get more. So this was a way to sort of explain where Karma is withoutI hope it doesn’t answer that question forever, but should the show not go past this season, I think it’s rewarding in its own right.

Faking It airs Tuesday nights on MTV.

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