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Michael Seater and Ashley Leggat Life with Derek

Michael Seater admits he and Life with Derek co-star Ashley Leggat leaned into the step-sibling romance to boost the show's popularity amid fan shipping. They had an undeniable chemistry that the fans loved. So fans want the enemies-to-lovers trope, and well, they're step-siblings, so technically… in these early days of the Internet, our producers don't know that there's forums online where people are talking, but we do. We knew that the fans liked it, so we leaned into it without letting the writers or the producers know that we were leaning into it. We'd be like sitting on a couch, they'd be like, 'Can you maybe separate yourselves a little on the couch?' But we were like, 'How many shows have existed on will they, won't they for so many years?' The actors compared their situation to long-running 'will they, won't they' tropes in other shows.

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Michael Seater and Ashley Leggat Life with Derek

Michael Seater admits he and Life with Derek co-star Ashley Leggat leaned into the step-sibling romance to boost the show's popularity amid fan shipping. They had an undeniable chemistry that the fans loved. So fans want the enemies-to-lovers trope, and well, they're step-siblings, so technically… in these early days of the Internet, our producers don't know that there's forums online where people are talking, but we do. We knew that the fans liked it, so we leaned into it without letting the writers or the producers know that we were leaning into it. We'd be like sitting on a couch, they'd be like, 'Can you maybe separate yourselves a little on the couch?' But we were like, 'How many shows have existed on will they, won't they for so many years?' The actors compared their situation to long-running 'will they, won't they' tropes in other shows.

12h