Zap2It caught up with Executive Producer Andrew Miller. He talks about The Secret Circle characters “Melissa Glaser” and “Nick Armstrong” (played by actors Jessica Parker Kennedy and Louis Hunter). What they’re all about and what to expect. Will Cassie and Nick have a romantic connection as they did in the books? Find out!
“Nick is a troubled young man,” Miller tells us, laughing a bit. “Both his parents are dead; he lives with his aunt and uncle. He’s a little bit more messed up than the other ones. He’s got this cool guy facade, but he spends a lot of time pushing people away, probably out of insecurity and fear.”
Fans frequently ask us whether Nick and Cassie will have a romantic connection on the show the way that they seem to in the novels. As of right now, Miller says, there aren’t plans to highlight a romantic spark between them. Cassie has her hands full relationship-wise with Adam (Thomas Dekker) who is currently dating her one friend in town, Diana.
Melissa (Jessica Parker Kennedy) is a bit of a sidekick to the “bad girl” Faye (Phoebe Tonkin) when we first meet her. “Melissa is an insecure mean girl. She has this unique position of being friends with Faye, which kind of makes her a powerful girl at school, and yet, she’s not ‘that girl,’ so she’s kind of in a weird spot,” Miller explains. “She’s been living in Faye’s shadow for their entire friendship, which is a safe place to be because it’s not a lot of pressure, but at the same time she’s not given the opportunities to assert herself in any real, meaningful way.”As the series marches on, we’ll see a change in Melissa. “Over the course of the season, as she comes into her power, she’ll create a clear definition for herself and it will help her define herself outside of her relationship with Faye in a really cool way,” Miller says.
