In an exclusive interview with BuzzFeed, showrunner Carter Covington sets the record straight on Amy’s sexuality, Karma’s true feelings, and whether these two best friends can ever be something more. WARNING: Major spoilers for the Season 1 finale ahead!
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Over the course of Faking It's first season on MTV, Karma (Katie Stevens) and Amy (Rita Volk) were mistakenly outed as a lesbian couple, pursued a fake relationship, fake broke up, fake got back together, and were outed as, well, fakers. It's all a little confusing — especially for Amy, who realized after a few for-show lip-locks with her best friend that her feelings for Karma were more than just pretend.
Meanwhile, Karma navigated a relationship with Liam (Gregg Sulkin), which led to a failed threesome and eventually some one-on-one action. In the season finale — MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD — Liam found out that Karma and Amy had never really been a couple, and Karma found out that Amy had feelings for her all along. Cue a lot of drinking and some bad decisions that ended the season on a shocking note: Amy and Liam had sex.
Knowing how upset fans would be over this development, Faking It showrunner Carter Covington sat down with BuzzFeed for an exclusive interview to discuss why Amy slept with Liam, what's ahead for her relationship with Karma, and why even the angriest fans should keep watching when the show returns for its second season.
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Let's start by setting the record straight, as it were. Amy slept with Liam. Does that mean she's suddenly into guys?
Carter Covington: No.
So what is the situation there?
CC: I think it's important for everyone to stay calm and recognize that Amy was hurt (more hurt than she's ever been), drunk, and angry. And she made a mistake, a mistake that will haunt her in the next season. My intention was and never will be for Amy and Liam to develop a romance. I think that that would undermine the journey Amy's been on. But that being said, Amy has not self-identified as a lesbian. People have put that on her. And I know that our lesbian fans really connect to and relate to her, and I'm so glad that they do, but they're putting an ending on her journey that we haven't finished yet. And I really want her to be able to explore whether or not she's attracted to men, and where that fits in her vision of herself and her sexuality.
So the Amy-Liam sex is much more a drunken mistake than an act of passion?
CC: It is an act of anger. Both her and Liam are acting out against Karma. What we called it in the writers' room was 'Fuck you, Karma sex.'
You mentioned that Amy hasn't self-identified as a lesbian. What conversations have you had in the writers' room about where you'd like her and Karma to end up in terms of their sexualities? Or is that something you're purposely leaving open?
CC: I would like to state categorically that Amy is not straight and will never be straight. So we're not gonna be like, 'Surprise! It was a phase.' That, to me, is offensive as a gay person. I care about Amy so much as a character that I would never have her have that reaction. I think it would just undermine the whole show. A lot of gay and lesbian fans have been burned by that before, so this, I think, will have a hint of that for them. They'll be like, Oh no, you're gonna make her straight now. And I want everyone to know: She will never be straight. She is not straight. It's been very clear in this season that she's not straight because of her feelings for Karma. I think now we're trying to go beyond Karma. Where is Amy on the spectrum? And I'm not sure. I'm not sure where we're gonna end up, but I know she's not gonna end up straight.
