Costa D'Angelo On Alex's 'Tell Me Lies' Backstory & Breakup With Lucy

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Alex claimed that he doesn’t do love when he was introduced on Tell Me Lies in its final season, but it didn’t take long for viewers to fall for Costa D’Angelo’s complicated character. Over the course of the season, Alex’s backstory is slowly and subtly revealed. There are no flashbacks to Alex’s childhood abuse in foster homes, which is something D’Angelo appreciated about how the series handled this trauma.

“I think the subtlety, it's less is more sometimes, especially in this case with how sensitive the topic is,” D’Angelo says. “He’s come out of something so heartbreaking and hard to escape. I love Alex so much, so I wish people could have gotten more of an insight into his life, but subtlety is key in this. Things are unveiled slowly with this character.”

Knowing about Alex’s past from the start informed how D’Angelo wanted his character to interact with both Read Entire Article