was all very profound and moving for me while playing conrad did you tend to take a side or could you also empathize with michellecolton this is me colton but its different when i am in production and out there doing it all i am focused on is being the champion for coco it even changed my relationship with him as i watched it back elle fanning up until now has had the innocent likeable persona onscreen for her to be playing the edgy dark character was it an alarming experience for you to see your costar in a totally different spacecolton it was only alarming working with elle when she came in as michelle the one that we all know this series spans many years from when she was 15 years when elle showed up on sets looking like michelle from the courtroom pictures that was a little eerie and transformative we were in a school gym and i saw this blonde girl talking to all my friends and i remember wondering who is that girl there she then came up to me and tried to give me a big hug and i shuddered and i was like oh my god its youi think its a testament to how deeply she disappeared into this role from what she is known as it is pretty remarkable to be in good company like that when a death by suicide gets as much media attention how do you hope these cases are handled mostly when a boy dies by suicide in a relationship the girl is vilified what are your thoughts on thiscolton it was one of the major contributing factors to why i wanted to do this show i think michelle was only given that facevalue narrative it was very hollow no matter what you see it wasnt honest or consequential to what actually happened and the tragedy that befell these two children i think you are right women are vilified in the media all the time and unfortunately it is the kind of culture we live in this case wasnt very long ago this show makes you take a pause and reflect on how we have all been complicit it makes us ask did we act appropriately did we do the right thing what would you say is the relevance of this story especially at a time when so many people have died by suicide during the lockdown how do you hope this changes the perspective of families and friends grieving from losscolton all i can say from the perspective of getting to know coco is that you arent your ending he lived a very full life even at 18 years old i think he deserves for people to know that and any family that has gone through this deserves that grace and reminder as well i am just proud that in this series you get that and get to know him a little more than you think you didwritten