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13 Reasons Why Star Talks Importance Of Season 2

hen production began on the second season of 13 Reasons Why back in June 2017, Hollywood was a different place. The cast and crew had gathered months before the New York Times and the New Yorker published their bombshell investigations into producer Harvey Weinstein, reports that spawned a social movement against sexual assault and harassment that would upend Hollywood, US media, and national politics. Now, amid the #MeToo movement, the sexual assault storylines explored in the fictional Netflix hit series are also taking on a new meaning and level of importance, says Katherine Langford, the Australian actor who plays Hannah Baker, whose suicide is central to the first season. “The issues that we addressed in Season 1 and that we continue to touch on in Season 2, they’re not new. They’ve been around for a really long time,” Langford told BuzzFeed News on the set of 13 Reasons after filming a flashback scene to when her character was alive. “In light of recent events and recent changes in the world and new reports, and I guess overall view of sexual assault in particular, I think that in Season 2, those issues are going to obviously resonate a lot more deeply,” she said.