ET is first on the set of the much-buzzed-about new ABC series, “My Generation,” that follows the lives of nine Y2K Texas high school students 10 years after graduation.
There is the jock (Mehcad Brooks), the beauty queen (Jaime King), the punk (Kelli Garner), the nerd (Keir O’Donnell), the overachiever (Michael Stahl-David), the wallflower (Anne Son), the rock star (Sebastian Sozzi), the brain (Daniella Alonso), and the rich kid (Julian Morris) — none of whose lives turned out the way they had hoped.
So whatever happened to the jock — Rolly Marks — played by Mehcad?
“When you meet him in 2010, he’s a soldier in Afghanistan,” Mehcad tells ET. “He is physically separated from everybody else. …He is, obviously, connected because he’s married to Dawn (Garner) and they have this child on the way.”
Jaime plays the former high school beauty queen, who is now stuck in an unhappy marriage.
“When she is 18… she’s a cheerleader, she’s vibrant and she’s fun,” Jaime says. “Her big dream is to go to Los Angeles and become an actress. The whole world is her oyster. Cut to 10 years later when they come back to meet Jackie, she had gone to L.A., she started to get some success and some things happened and she was sent back home. So she’s now married to someone very square, to a man that her father wanted her to marry. So she is not living the life that she ever imagined.”
Then there is the former overachiever, Steven Foster (Stahl-David), who has moved to Hawaii where he surfs and tends bar and never fulfilled the potential he had in high school. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that he has a 9-year-old son.
“…He doesn’t know how to deal with the situation,” Michael tells ET. As for his own high school career, he says, “I got into a lot of trouble in high school… I don’t know if I would be proud of that or ashamed.”
“My Generation” was loosely inspired by the half-hour Swedish mockumentary “On God’s Highway,” but in being translated for the American audience, it became an hour-drama and more documentary-style than mockumentary.
“My Generation” premieres on Thursday, Sept. 23 at 8 p.m. on ABC.
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