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Adults’ cast offer guest star invites to Hilary Duff and Taylor Swift
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That's the question (in the form of hit Hilary Duff lyrics) that Owen Thiele posed when he and the cast of Adults visited Decider's studio to chat all things Season 2 and their hopes for Season 3, including dream guest stars.
When Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw’s hit twenty-something hangout comedy premiered back in 2025, fans were quickly charmed by the tight-knit dynamics of best friends/housemates Samir (Malik Elassal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Issa (Amita Rao), Anton (Owen Thiele), and Paul Baker (Jack Innanen). With a 76% Tomatometer rating and exciting guest stars like Charlie Cox and Julia Fox, Season 1 was certainly a success. But Season 2, which holds a perfect 100% Tomatometer rating and features more incredible guest stars like Raven-Symoné and Zosia Mamet, is a smash hit.
As the cast looks back on their sophomore season and realizes this is what dreams are made of, they're also ambitiously looking ahead and have some top-notch pitches for the future. "I'd love a Hilary Duff cameo. That would be amazing," Thiele told Decider. "If Hilary Duff came, we could all have our own little cartoons with her," Rao added. And of course, confirmed Adults fan Taylor Swift has an open invite, too. "She can genuinely play anything she wants," Thiele said.
Since Adults Season 2 premiered Thursday, August 27 at 9:00 p.m. ET, Decider broke our interview into three parts to avoid spoilers. In Part 1, the cast talks about the Paul Baker prequel episode, meeting Owen's sister Talia (Raven-Symoné), Issa and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez simultaneously freezing their eggs, and more.
DECIDER: Before we dive into Season 2, we have to talk about the Paul Baker prequel episode. Jack, what was it like re-contextualizing the character?
JACK INNANEN: It was hard to pretend that I didn't know them all. That was really tricky on camera. It made me sad. But it was cool to see, in doing it in reverse, how we met, and then to contextualize everything else.
MALIK ELASSAL: I was being rude to you because I didn't know Paul Baker. I went method.
INNANEN: He was being mean. He was being a monster off-set for the whole season.
After Billie's elaborate journey to get her problematic Facebook post removed, the premiere features some real-life footage of all of your internet pasts. What was it like selecting those and seeing how far you've come?
AMITA RAO: You know, there was a short-lived attempt of only private YouTube videos where I tried to be a vlogger and just seeing how far I've come, and kind of what I was into at the time — tribal print, biking — like that was a journey.
LUCY FREYER: Your raw, unedited YouTube videos — she has them. The full things. Like 35 minutes. And she's like, "Hi guys!" And then she'll like reset, and she'll be like, "Hi guys." And it's like that for like 30 seconds.
RAO: It was like me trying to nail that classic 2010s YouTube intro.
FREYER: Wait, what was it? "Sorry to disturb you!" She wanted that to be a catchphrase. [Laughs]
RAO: "Sorry to disturb you!" Yeah, so I cut out the dis. And it was just, "Sorry to sturb you!" [Laughs]
Owen, it was shocking to see Anton's more immature alter ego around his family. What was it like playing that hilarious change opposite your pal Raven-Symoné?
OWEN THIELE: Well, she's become my pal, but she's a role model to me. She's my icon, and I'm obsessed with her. So to work with her was a dream come true. I remember when Jack and I were at the diner, and we were opposite Raven-Symoné; there was a moment where I was like, "Wait, cut! I'm with Raven-Symoné here, this is crazy!" It was really fun. Also, the flip where Anton is so nice to everyone except his family is so relatable to me, not that I'm mean to my family; I love my family. But I can get a little snippy. So it's fun to pull from.
When you host your In Your Dreams podcast, you have this incredible wall of pop culture icons behind you, including Raven-Symoné. Who from that wall are we manifesting on Adults next?
THIELE: Raven-Symoné smack in the middle! Oh my god, any of them are welcome to come. Whoever wants to come can come. I would love a Sabrina Carpenter cameo; I'd love a Hilary Duff cameo. That would be amazing. Honestly, I think what I'm really manifesting is that we go again and that Raven comes back.
FREYER: She's established in the world now. She's a staple.
RAO: If Hilary Duff came, we could all have our own little cartoons with her.
Issa can do some singing with Hilary. Maybe she can be Billie's cousin, or another one of Paul Baker's friends who he doesn't know is that famous.
THIELE: Yeah. Why not? Why not, FX?! Take a crazy chance!
You also have a hardcore fan in Taylor Swift, no big deal. Does she have an open invite, too?
RAO: No, no, not her. She has to audition.
THIELE: Yeah, she has to go through the whole process. I want callbacks. And I want chemistry reads. No, obviously Taylor Swift can do whatever she wants! I'm obsessed with her. She's such a special human being.
THIELE: She can genuinely be Anton. She can play whatever she wants.
Aside from Raven-Symoné, Season 2 has such a stacked guest star lineup . Who were your favorites to act opposite?
INNANEN: The bros [Liam Cullagh, Will Sennett, and Joey Dardano] were really fun. And that was the first thing we shot. And it was weird, especially playing Paul Baker in full bro. I had to remember who he was for a ...
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