[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Sex Lives of College Girls Season 2, Episodes 1-6.]
The Sex Lives of College Girls is again and has welcomed a brand new man to the Essex campus with Mitchell Slaggert‘s “climate refugee” Jackson.
The undeniably good-looking co-ed has been full of surprises as Season 2 of the HBO Max series has unfolded, particularly when it comes to his connection with Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet). In the show’s most up-to-date episodes, “Taking Shots” and “Doppelbanger,” the pair received even nearer, taking issues to the following stage.
“You’re gonna get a better sense of his character,” Slaggert tells TV Insider, teasing what’s forward for Jackson. Among the issues followers ought to count on to uncover are his “morals and integrity,” the actor notes. He provides that folks could also be questioning, “is this guy a good person, or is he playing his cards?”
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So far, it might appear Jackson’s a fairly good man, regardless of any preconceived opinions viewers might have about his frequent sexual exercise on the opposite facet of Kimberly’s dorm wall. Apart from sharing an Irish Literature course collectively and Jackson’s efforts to assist a classmate with a crush join with Kimberly, he actually shined whereas caring for her following an egg retrieval process when she was locked out of her dorm.
In different phrases, he’s greater than the preliminary “eye candy” he seems to play, breaking stereotypes because the story progresses. There are a number of arguably gratuitous moments for Slaggert’s Jackson as he jogs round campus shirtless or, in the identical state of undress, hangs a flatscreen TV from his dorm wall, however the actor doesn’t thoughts.
“Thankfully, I have a fantastic team that I work with, and they’re smarter than I am on the whole situation. So I always follow their judgment.” Don’t count on the identical factor from Slaggert’s actual life, although, as he says he tends to “lean away” from that “eye candy” standing. “When I’m taking videos of myself [for work or] building stuff, I leave my shirt on, and that’s kind of hard for me because I grew up just like no shirt, no shoes.”
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Otherwise, it’s been a clean transition right into a beforehand established sequence for Slaggert, who says, “I’m a little quirky and weird at times.” Once his costars figured that out, Slaggert says, “I could totally hang out with them.” And together with meshing effectively together with his costars, Slaggert says of his character, “the more [co-creators Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble] got to know me, the more they tailored the role around who I kind of am.”
Just like Jackson, who transferred to Essex after a twister demolished his outdated faculty down south, Slaggert says, “I moved around a lot, so being the new kid in school, I leaned into that.” And it’s Jackson’s newness that connects him to Kimberly, who’s struggling to slot in when she’s frightened about how she’s going to pay her tuition with no scholarship.
After Jackson’s transient stint of caring for Kimberly following her process, that bond appears solidified. The solely downside? Kimberly appears like Jackson solely sees her as a fragile affected person, however she works up the braveness to inform him in any other case, informing him she’s “ready for anything.” The loaded assertion leads them again to his dorm room for an obvious hookup.
So the place does this go away them? “There’s definitely some unforeseen layers within Jackson and stuff that you definitely wouldn’t see coming,” Slaggert teases. And relating to a extra romantic relationship exterior of the preliminary hookup, he says followers can be “rooting for that. They’ll definitely be rooting for them.”
Could this imply that Kimberly can be a part of Jackson’s noisy hookups? A teaser for the following episode actually signifies that. But how are these theatrical trysts captured behind closed doorways? “ADR,” Slaggert explains. “You just go into a booth, and you make the noises. And then it’s funny ’cause when you’re on set [we] just make it as comical and far off from normal as we can.”
Stay tuned to see how the connection between Jackson and Kimberly unfolds as The Sex Lives of College Girls continues on HBO Max.
The Sex Lives of College Girls, Season 2, Thursdays, HBO Max