Ginny & Georgia's Diesel La Torraca Addresses His Growth Spurt Between Seasons 2 & 3
Diesel La Torraca noticeably looks more grown up in Ginny & Georgia season three than he did the previous season.
The young actor is now 14 years old, but his character on the Netflix series is still nine, and he’s gone viral since the new episodes debuted.
Diesel even joked about it on his TikTok recently, sharing a video with the caption, “Me tryna convince ppl that Austin is still 9″
In a new interview, Diesel addressed his age difference in real life vs his character, how they didn’t address it on the show and more.
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“Yeah, he’s supposed to be nine. I think it’s the very beginning of the first episode of season 1, we’re driving in the car and Ginny turns down the music, and she’s like, ‘He’s nine,’ and I feel like that’s the only time we’ve mentioned it… he hasn’t had a birthday yet,” Diesel shared with Teen Vogue.
“Well, honestly, we kind of ignore it a little bit!” he added with a laugh. “It’s kind of just like… there’s a 14-year-old sitting at the table with Harry Potter glasses on that’s supposed to be nine. And that’s okay! In some shots I did have to bend my knees a little bit to look a little shorter than Toni, or they got her an apple box a few times, but for the most part we’ve kind of just kept the show running.”
Diesel also talked about the challenges of playing a nine-year-old for so many years – it’s been six years since he first started working on the show.
“Playing a nine-year-old for six years when you are growing… I’ve grown with him, but I’ve also kind of departed from him because I was eight when we started, now I’m 14,” the actor said. “There are a lot of differences in the way that he would move and act and speak. I have to heighten my voice register, slouch a little bit [to] feel like I’m actually a shy, insecure nine-year-old.”
If you missed it, Ginny & Georgia has already been renewed for a fourth season. The series creator recently shared that fans won’t have to wait as long between seasons three and four…