How 13 Reasons Why Star Handled the Gruesome Bullying Scene

What's going on guys? Hanging with me right now. I have the Timothy Granaderos. Timothy. How are you?

I'm good. How are you doing?

Good. So before we get into 13 reasons why, because there's so much to talk about. You've had a really fun last couple of days. You're at Wango Tango.

I was at Wango Tango. Um, I was at Wango Tango with my castmates, Devin Druid and Justin Prentice and we got to present Ariana Grande. No big deal. We got to dance to the Backstreet Boys and it was just an awesome time. I had so much fun.

Yeah. You know, there's a gift going around of you three presenting Ariana and you guys are like freaking out, like you guys are losing it. Have you seen it? It's everywhere.

That's not us. That's definitely not us.

You're too cool to freak out like that right? Way too composed. So Backstreet Boys. You're a big fan of them, right?

I Backstreet Boys is like if okay, so I love don't make me sing this time. But I love karaoke and Backstreet Boys is like top two. It's like Montel Jordan. This is how we do it. I think we talked about that last time and then Backstreet Boys.

Okay, so what's what's your favorite song then? Really? You don't have to sing it. I'm just asking.

Well, I don't know the names of the songs. I only know the it's

What? You don't know the songs? You are my fire. I want it that way. Yeah. There you go. Well, we can talk about Backstreet Boys all day, but I do want to talk to you about 13 reasons because this season has gotten so much darker. So much more intense. And your character Monty's kind of really stepped up and

Yeah. Yeah, he's definitely become one of the the main villains in season two. Definitely very hated and people are, yeah, which is is always interesting and I I've been saying, um, people are like what's you know, what's it like to get all this backlash? And it's mostly towards the character and quite honestly, I'd be shocked and surprised if people didn't react the way they did.

Well, there's one scene, I'm sure that you've been getting asked about all the time. It's the one towards the end. Um, in the bathroom. And honestly, I think it just proves to show how talented you are because you were one of the most grounded, genuine people I've gotten to meet but your character Monty is just he's horrifying. But I think that just shows again, how talented you are. I want to know how did you emotionally prepare for that scene?

Thank you for that first of all, but in preparation for that scene, it was the sad thing is is that scenario that played out it's not uncommon and it's happened before. Maybe not to that degree but it happens quite often. So I was able to do a lot of research on similar scenarios and then also I I tried to find kind of like the root of where his aggression and displaced anger came from and I found that a lot of times it's from, you know, it's from pain, you know, they don't he didn't know how to deal with his emotions and what he was feeling. So sadly, he did what he did. But um, yeah, just a lot of research, a lot of preparation, a lot of angsty music, a lot of talking to myself.

So you like isolated yourself a bit, probably.

Yeah, totally like on the actual shoot day, the entire crew from the top down, Brian Yorkie and our director Kyle Patrick Alvarez, like everyone was so amazing and they provide this very safe environment to just go out there and do what we need to do to tell the best story in the scene.

So you probably agree that it was important to show something so graphic like that, right?

Yeah. Yeah, totally. I think that's one thing our show has been consistent on is just Brian Yorkie uses the term unflinching. These are scenarios that aren't easy to watch and they shouldn't be but it's not easy but it gets the conversation started, you know, and and we're talking about it right now and hopefully someone watching can be like, you know, spread the word and just get talking about it and I think that's the cool thing about the show, you know, those aren't easy things to talk about, but now we are, so.

Right. The trial and the finale. Why do you think the show decided to take those situations that way?

Sadly, sometimes justice isn't served and people who are privileged get out of things that they shouldn't get out of. Hopefully you feel as a viewer, you know, you feel passionate one way or another.

So before we head out, is there anything else that you want to see happen from Monty or any other characters next?

I would like to explore Monty's home life, um why he is the way he is. So, um hopefully we get to explore that a little more and some of the other relationships, the new characters, you know,

I don't know if anyone knew this, but you were in Selena Gomez's music video. I have to bring that up. Love you like a love song. That's so cool.

Yeah. You were in like a sombrero and I was in a mariachi band playing a, yeah, a flute, yeah.

I love it. Well, thank you so much for being here. You're like a triple threat music video guy, actor, potential karaoke singer. See how we're going the same way. Thank you so much for hanging out.

Thank you for bringing me on.