The aliens have landed and the Atrians have invaded Louisiana, and now that the series premiere of The CW’s mid-season sci-fi drama, Star-Crossed, is behind us, we thought we’d share some of Aimee Teegarden’s thoughts on the pilot episode.
We spoke to series’ star Aimee Teegarden last summer at the San Diego Comic-Con where she revealed some behind-the-scenes dirt on one of her favorite moments from the premiere.
Teegarden, who plays Emery, a young teen who’s reunited with an Atrian boy she met ten years earlier, points out a scene where Emery and Roman (Matt Lanter) evade a close run-in with the cops after a late-night party turned brawl and finds the breathless pair having a touching moment.
It had originally been written for Emery and Roman to have this poignant scene in a corn maze or a corn field, “but we were in Louisiana and there was none of that,” Teegarden shared, “so we used the back lot of some house in the middle of nowhere.”
She called the “really fun” and “heartfelt” scene a moment that had everything stripped away. “It wasn’t about the fact that she was a human, he was an alien, or anything like that. It was really just about two people connecting on a different level.”
Teegarden goes on to reveal that though the scene captured the hearts of viewers, filming that scene was a challenge to capture which had her feeling sorry for her co-star. “It was also five in the morning and the sun was starting to come up. The birds were chirping. I felt so awful for [Matt] because we were just so tired and the sun’s coming up and we’re all still trying to pretend to be out of breath or whatever.”
“And it’s like ‘Oh, my gosh. This is not going to match at all,'” she adds about the scene’s continuity. “So I think they did a lot of color timing to try to correct that. But we got it. We got the scene.”
For those who are wondering, the haunting song that plays during this scene is called Human by Civil Twilight.
Star-Crossed airs Mondays at 8/7c on The CW.