But I think we realized toward the end that her relationship with Clay is so special, and it’s something that the audience really connected with. It took a little bit of time to really understand what her role was and why she was there. “I think Hannah’s character and particularly her role this season was something that was developed over the course of shooting.

“She’s only ever seen through or filtered through the lens of other people’s eyes this season,” she says of the challenging arc. But Langford says this is a different version of her character than the one in the first season. The second season, now streaming on Netflix, shows Hannah in new flashback scenes, but also as a figure who appears and interacts with Clay. How '13 Reasons Why' Brings Awareness to Sexual Assault Survivors in Season 2 “Coming back for this season was important … to continue the storyline for other characters who were really important that we saw in season one.” “In season one we really told Hannah’s story in its entirety,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. But while the first season of the Netflix drama was Hannah’s story, the second season focuses on her friends and family and their struggles before and after her death. Even 13 Reasons Why star Katherine Langford knows that the story that Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why told in its first season, of teen Hannah Baker’s classmates discovering cassette tapes she left behind explaining why she had killed herself, was closed-ended.

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